Where to stay in Noresund
Beds in Noresund gather along the lake, the way of a small shore village, with most rooms near the village core at the narrows of Lake Krøderen where guest rooms and a hotel stand within reach of the water, the shops and Olberg kirke. The lakeside core suits visitors who want the shore and the fairytale museum close at hand. It is the natural base.
Up above the village near Villa Fridheim, cabins and holiday houses look out over Lake Krøderen toward the wooded ridges, handy for travellers who come for the Eventyrmuseet and the quiet country of Krødsherad. These fill through the summer. Out along the shore road and the side valleys around Veikåker kapell, scattered cabins and farm stays spread thin among the farms, a quiet stock for visitors touring this corner of Buskerud by car.
Reserve ahead in the warm season, when the lakeside cabins of this small municipality draw boaters and museum visitors to Lake Krøderen.
About Noresund
What is Noresund known for?
Noresund sits at the narrows of Lake Krøderen and serves as the centre of Krødsherad. Villa Fridheim draws the visitors. The timbered villa above the lake holds a fairytale museum, the Eventyrmuseet, the chief sight of this stretch of Buskerud.
Across the water and along the shore the old churches mark the parish, Olberg kirke near the village and Veikåker kapell among the farms, two protected wooden buildings that fix Noresund as the meeting point of a small lakeside municipality in the southern part of Buskerud.
What are the main landmarks in Noresund?
The Eventyrmuseet at Villa Fridheim is the landmark of Noresund. A timbered villa above Lake Krøderen holds this museum of Norwegian fairytales, the chief draw of the lakeside village. Old churches mark the parish too.
Olberg kirke, a protected wooden church, fixes the centre of Krødsherad, while Veikåker kapell and the smaller Glesne kapell stand among the farms and shore valleys of this lakeside municipality in the southern part of Buskerud.
What is the history of Noresund?
Noresund grew at the narrows of Lake Krøderen, where the crossing of the water gathered the farms of Krødsherad. The old wooden Olberg kirke fixed the parish on the shore, and the scattered farms looked to it and to the chapels of Veikåker kapell and Glesne kapell for their worship, the village taking shape at the point where the lake could be crossed. The lake shaped the living.
Timber floated down Lake Krøderen and farming on the shore made the trade of the valley through the long centuries before the roads came. Leisure builders found the lakeside as the years passed. The grand timbered Villa Fridheim rose above the water, a holiday villa later opened as the Eventyrmuseet of Norwegian fairytales, and Noresund settled into its role as the centre of Krødsherad.
By then it had become the place where the shops, the offices and the parish church of this small lakeside municipality gathered on the shore of Lake Krøderen in the southern part of Buskerud.
Where is Noresund?
Noresund lies at the narrows of Lake Krøderen in Krødsherad, in the southern part of Buskerud, in south-eastern Norway. The village stands on the lakeshore where wooded ridges close in around the long water, the core gathered near Olberg kirke and the crossing of the lake. Forest and water frame the place.
The municipality of Krødsherad runs along the shores of Lake Krøderen and up the side valleys, taking in the farms and the chapels of Veikåker kapell and Glesne kapell, a thinly settled land of lake and ridge in this corner of Buskerud.
What is the climate of Noresund?
Noresund has the cold inland climate of the lake valleys of eastern Norway. Winters run long and snowy, the frost binding the surface of Lake Krøderen and the snow lying deep over the wooded ridges of Krødsherad through the dark months. Summers are short and warm.
The lake holds the day's heat and the long northern light draws boaters and walkers to the shore in the brief warm season, while the surrounding high ground keeps the air cool and the nights fresh across this corner of Buskerud.
How do you get to Noresund?
Noresund is reached by road along Lake Krøderen. The shore road carries the traffic up from the larger towns of Buskerud to the south, running beside the water and bringing travellers to the village core near Olberg kirke. Most come by car.
The old railway along the lake no longer carries regular service, so visitors drive in to reach Villa Fridheim and the country of Krødsherad, while the wider airports and rail of eastern Norway lie well to the south for those reaching this part of Buskerud from further off.