Where to stay in Treungen
Treungen village is the natural base in Nissedal. The small centre sits by the lake in the southern part of Telemark, with Treungen kirke and the Ziener-museum at hand and rooms among the houses and lakeshore rather than in any hotel quarter. The water is the draw.
Staying here puts the village services and the shore within easy reach of one another. The rest of Nissedal spreads out around the lake. Cabins and guesthouses lie scattered along the shore and back among the forested hills, a quiet country for a still break.
Stay in Treungen for the lakeside and the village. Choose a cabin out along the water if you want more space and solitude, all linked by the road that runs through this corner of Telemark.
About Treungen
What is Treungen known for?
Treungen is a quiet lake village. As the main settlement of Nissedal in the southern part of Telemark, it sits at the foot of a long inland lake among forested hills. Its sights are modest and local.
Treungen kirke stands at the village centre, and the small Ziener-museum keeps a slice of the district's story.
What are the main landmarks in Treungen?
Treungen kirke anchors the village. The church stands at the centre by the lake, the clearest landmark of Nissedal in the southern part of Telemark. One other stop draws visitors.
A small Ziener-museum gathers a corner of local history, and beyond the buildings the long lake and its forested shores are the real draw of this Telemark valley.
What is the history of Treungen?
Treungen grew at the foot of its lake. The village took shape as the gathering point of Nissedal in the southern part of Telemark, where farms and forest holdings met the water and a church was raised to serve the scattered parish. Treungen kirke marked that community.
It stood as the religious centre of the district while the surrounding farms worked the thin soils and the timber of the surrounding hills. Life here turned on the lake and the woods. Logs cut in the forests were floated down the water, and the small settlement around the church held the everyday life of Nissedal.
The Ziener-museum now keeps a part of that local record. Treungen stayed a quiet lake village, the modest centre of its municipality on the inland edge of south-eastern Norway, far from any large town.
Where is Treungen?
Treungen sits at the foot of a long lake. The village lies in the southern part of Telemark, where the water stretches north among forested ridges and the hills of Nissedal rise on either side. Forest closes in all around.
The road follows the shore and the valley, threading the scattered farms of Nissedal through this inland corner of south-eastern Norway.
What is the climate of Treungen?
Winters bite here. Deep inland in the southern part of Telemark, Treungen sees long cold months when frost and snow settle over the lake and the forested hills of Nissedal. Summers turn mild and bright.
Warm light over the water marks the short green season of this inland village of south-eastern Norway, before the cold returns.
How do you get to Treungen?
Treungen lies well off the main lines. The village sits deep in the southern part of Telemark, reached by the road that runs up the lake valley of Nissedal rather than by rail. Cars carry nearly everyone.
The shore road links Treungen to the wider routes of south-eastern Norway, winding through the forests and farms of the district.