Where to Stay in Rollag, Buskerud fylke

What is Rollag known for?

The village of Rollag serves as the administrative centre of an old farming district that stretches up the valley floor and over the wooded ridges of this corner of Buskerud. Veggli holds more of the people. Higher up the valley the wooden Veggli kirke marks the parish there, and Mogen Landhandleri, an old country store turned museum, keeps the trade and daily life of Numedal.

Farms and parishes make the place.

What are the main landmarks in Rollag?

Veggli kirke is the landmark of Rollag. A protected wooden church up the Numedal valley at Veggli, it marks the larger settlement of the municipality and serves as the chief built sight of the district. History lives at Mogen Landhandleri too.

An old country store turned museum, it keeps the trade and daily life of the valley, while the farms and parishes scattered along Numedal carry the older fabric of this valley municipality in the southern part of Buskerud.

What is the history of Rollag?

Rollag grew as a chain of farms along the Numedal valley. Settlement followed the valley floor and the slopes, the parishes gathering around their churches as the people worked the land and the forest, and the district took its name from the old farm seat that became its administrative centre. Farming made the living.

Timber and the land carried Numedal through the long centuries, the valley reaching south from the high country toward the lowlands of Buskerud. Veggli rose as the larger settlement higher up the valley, its wooden Veggli kirke serving the people of the upper parishes. Trade and travel along the valley road brought the old country store of Mogen Landhandleri, later kept as a museum of valley life, and Rollag settled into its shape as a scattered municipality of farms and parishes.

Bordered by Nore og Uvdal, Sigdal, Flesberg and Tinn in Telemark, the district held its place along Numedal in the southern part of Buskerud.

Where is Rollag?

Rollag lies along the Numedal valley in the southern part of Buskerud, in south-eastern Norway. The municipality stretches up the valley floor and over the wooded ridges, the village of Rollag set lower down and Veggli higher up beside Veggli kirke. Forest and high country frame the valley.

Rollag borders Nore og Uvdal to the north and Flesberg to the south along Numedal, with Sigdal to the east and Tinn in Telemark over the hills to the west, a long valley district of farms, woods and slopes in this corner of Buskerud.

What is the climate of Rollag?

Rollag has the cold inland climate of the high valleys of eastern Norway. Winters run long and snowy, the frost settling hard along the Numedal valley and the snow lying deep over the wooded ridges and the farms of Buskerud through the dark months. The summers are brief and green.

The valley warms quickly under the long northern daylight, drawing walkers up toward Veggli and the high country, while the surrounding hills keep the air cool and the nights fresh across this corner of Numedal.

How do you get to Rollag?

Rollag is reached by road up the Numedal valley. The valley road carries the traffic from the lowlands of Buskerud to the south, running past the village of Rollag and on up to Veggli and the high country. Nearly all arrive by car.

There is no railway in the valley, so visitors drive in to reach Veggli kirke, the museum at Mogen Landhandleri and the farms of Numedal, while the wider airports and rail of eastern Norway lie well to the south-east for those reaching this part of Buskerud from further off.