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Dagny Halds skulptur som ønsker alle sjøfarende velkommen til den gamle hollenderstaden Son.
LM-foto: Sturla Strand ©.
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A charming small town community
   (LM/Tourist Info Service)
Son is a small town community in the southern part of the municipality of Vestby in Akershus county.
The center of Son is situated by the Oslofjord, by Sonskilen, and features the fjords deepest harbor. In addition, Son comprises four residental areas: Deør Skog, Store Brevik and Øståsen. There are also smaller populational areas.
A majority of the municipality´s 5000 inhabitants lives in the residental areas, with only one smaller population in the center. Son is also a popular and relatively exclusive leisure home area. Son borders to the city Moss in Østfold county 11 km in the south.
The harbor is among the most attractive of all in the Oslofjord, with many users from other parts of ﾘstlandet. Soon Seilforening has long been among the areas most active sailboat associations, and it gained national attention with Siren Sundby´s Goldmedal in the 2004´s Summer Olympics (Women´s Single Handed Dinghy).
Son was an important timber trade harbor during the Dutch era. Partly timber chop wood from around Son, partly timber floated down the river, was shipped out. On several Dutch maps, the oldest from 1582, the Oslofjord is marked Zoen water.
In 1604 Son was granted “ladested” status with its own taxation rights. Several of the buildings in the center is from the great period that followed, among them Thornegården from 1641 and the estates Stoltenberggården and Spinnerigården. Spinnerigården”is named after the Ove Meyer tobacco spinnery. The Meyer Company stayed there to 1750. The buildings are preserved.
Early in the twentieth century Son became a place for artists. Famous people like Nils Kjær, Ludvig Karsten, Hermann Wildenvey, Ronald Fangen and the eccentric painter Carl Dørnberger are among those who settled there. Also today a number of famous artists resides in Son.
Until 1964 Son was a municipality in its own right. In connection with the many communal mergers which took place in that period Son was merged with Vestby.
(To be extended)
(Tourist Info Translating by Are Strand/Lokalmagasinet Translation Service, Strand Prinfo, P.O. Box 160 N-1556 Son. Norway. W´ll welcome all comments and suggestions related to tourist info publishing and profiling our area and Norway in general. E-mails should be sent to: post@lokalmagasinet.no) |
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