Dombås
Dombås | |
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Village | |
Dovre Municipality | |
Area | |
• Total | 1.55 km2 (0.60 sq mi) |
Elevation | 643 m (2,110 ft) |
Population (2021)[1] | |
• Total | 1,164 |
• Density | 753/km2 (1,950/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
Post Code | 2660 Dombås |
The 1.55-square-kilometre (380-acre) village has a population (2021) of 1164 and a population density of 753 inhabitants per square kilometre (1,950/sq mi).[1]
History
19th century
A description of the village area from 1895:
At Dombås, where there is a telegraph station, the scene had entirely changed, and fields of waving barley and potatoes greeted the eye.... Here, at a height of 2,000 feet (610 m) above the sea, the crops were not quite ripe, the season being backward. Barley required a few more days of sunshine, and the potatoes were still in bloom. The evenings became cold, and the farmers' faces showed their anxiety. The wind was from the NNW, and for two consecutive nights black frost appeared. The potato-vines turned black, and the grain crop was seriously injured. After the first frost everybody was at work in the fields, women and men sheaving the barley, and every available hand digging the potatoes. There was sorrow in many a farmer's heart, for the people were now greatly distressed, and I detected tears on many a mother's cheek during these two days. After this sudden cold spell the weather became cloudy, a violent storm set in, and the ground was covered with 18 inches (460 mm) of wet snow, though it was only the 20th of September.
— Paul B. Du Chaillu from The Land Of The Midnight Sun[3]
Twentieth century
The Dovre Line was extended to Dombås in 1913 and Dombås Station built. The line was extended onwards to Støren in 1921. Three years later, the Rauma Line opened connecting Dombås to Åndalsnes. Dombås Church was completed in 1939.
World War II
In 1940, during the
On 21 April 1940, a German Luftwaffe bombing attack on the village's railway areas resulted in the first American military casualty of World War II. Captain Robert M. Losey, an aeronautical meteorologist serving as an air attaché to American embassies in the Nordic countries, was killed while observing the bombing near the entrance to a rail tunnel where he and others had sought safety. A monument to Captain Losey now stands in Dombås. Five Norwegians were killed by the same bomb as Losey, and another 18 wounded.[5][6]
Also in April 1940, after evacuating Oslo after the
Climate
Dombås has a boreal climate with modest precipitation. Summer is the wettest season; late winter and spring is the driest season.
Climate data for Dombås - Nordigard, Norway (638 m, 2006-2023) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 10.2 (50.4) |
10.7 (51.3) |
15.3 (59.5) |
18.9 (66.0) |
26.4 (79.5) |
28.0 (82.4) |
29.6 (85.3) |
25.2 (77.4) |
23.5 (74.3) |
17.8 (64.0) |
13.5 (56.3) |
10.6 (51.1) |
29.6 (85.3) |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −3.6 (25.5) |
−2.0 (28.4) |
2.3 (36.1) |
6.7 (44.1) |
11.8 (53.2) |
16.9 (62.4) |
18.7 (65.7) |
16.7 (62.1) |
12.8 (55.0) |
5.8 (42.4) |
0.4 (32.7) |
−3.0 (26.6) |
6.9 (44.4) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | −6.9 (19.6) |
−5.7 (21.7) |
−2.2 (28.0) |
1.9 (35.4) |
6.8 (44.2) |
11.3 (52.3) |
13.4 (56.1) |
11.8 (53.2) |
8.3 (46.9) |
2.4 (36.3) |
−2.5 (27.5) |
−6.2 (20.8) |
2.7 (36.8) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −10.0 (14.0) |
−8.8 (16.2) |
−5.8 (21.6) |
−2.3 (27.9) |
2.2 (36.0) |
6.5 (43.7) |
9.0 (48.2) |
7.9 (46.2) |
4.8 (40.6) |
−0.2 (31.6) |
−5.0 (23.0) |
−9.2 (15.4) |
−0.9 (30.4) |
Record low °C (°F) | −29.5 (−21.1) |
−25.8 (−14.4) |
−26.5 (−15.7) |
−16.4 (2.5) |
−6.9 (19.6) |
−1.9 (28.6) |
0.0 (32.0) |
−1.3 (29.7) |
−3.9 (25.0) |
−13.7 (7.3) |
−23.4 (−10.1) |
−26.3 (−15.3) |
−29.5 (−21.1) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 40.8 (1.61) |
23.3 (0.92) |
21.2 (0.83) |
20.1 (0.79) |
31.8 (1.25) |
46.4 (1.83) |
68.3 (2.69) |
69.9 (2.75) |
32.5 (1.28) |
30.7 (1.21) |
33.3 (1.31) |
32.5 (1.28) |
450.8 (17.75) |
Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) | 10.0 | 6.6 | 6.4 | 4.7 | 6.0 | 7.9 | 11.9 | 12.3 | 6.4 | 7.2 | 7.9 | 9.3 | 96.6 |
Source: Norwegian Meteorological Institute[7] |
Media
The newspaper Vigga is published in Dombås.[8]
Notable residents
- Sigurd Einbu (1866–1946) a self-taught astronomer, he ran a magnetic monitoring station at Dombås from 1916
- Ragnar Solberg (1898–1967) a Norwegian poet, living in Fokstua
- Eli Hagen (born 1947 in Dombås) a TV presenter and personality, wife of Carl Ivar Hagen
- Lars Berger (born 1979) and Tora Berger (born 1981) retired Norwegian cross-country skiers.
- Marcus Kleveland (born 1999) snowboarder.
See also
References
- ^ a b c Statistisk sentralbyrå (1 January 2021). "Urban settlements. Population and area, by municipality".
- ^ "Dombås, Dovre". yr.no. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
- ^ Du Chaillu, Paul B. (1899). The Land of the Midnight Sun. London: George Newnes, Limited. p. 164.
- ^ ISBN 978-82-993369-0-1.
- ^ Cleverley, J. Michael (December 2003). "The First American Official Killed In This War" (PDF). Foreign Service Journal: 66–68. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 July 2007. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
- ISBN 978-8252126471.
- ^ "Seklima - Observations and weather statistics". Norwegian Meteorological Institute. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
- Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 16 April 2022.