Where to stay in Hommelvik
Most beds in Hommelvik sit in the village centre near Hommelvik kirke, within a short walk of the shore of the Hommelvika and the mouth of the Homla where it runs into the Trondheimsfjord. The centre suits visitors who want the bay and the church on the doorstep, with the road and rail line into Trondheim close at hand for day trips along the fjord. It is the natural base.
Out toward Muruvika and the older parish around Malvik kirke, a scatter of guest rooms and holiday houses serves drivers touring the shore of Malvik Municipality, while the country east toward Mostadmark and its chapel offers a quieter stay among the hills above the Homla valley. Rooms there are few. Beds thin once you leave the bay, so travellers wanting choice often base in Hommelvik itself and reach the rest of the central part of Trøndelag by car or the fjord railway.
About Hommelvik
What is Hommelvik known for?
Hommelvik is the administrative centre of Malvik Municipality in Trøndelag county. The village gathers at the end of the Hommelvika, a bay where the river Homla empties north into the Trondheimsfjord, and it takes its name from that river. Hommelvik kirke marks the centre.
The church and the fjordside setting fix the place in the central part of Trøndelag, with the smaller settlements of Muruvika and Vikhammer strung along the shore toward the wider mouth of the fjord.
What are the main landmarks in Hommelvik?
Hommelvik kirke stands at the centre of the village, a protected church above the bay and the chief landmark of the place. Malvik kirke serves the older parish toward Vikhammer, another heritage church of Malvik Municipality. The valley keeps a third.
Mostadmark kapell sits up in the hills along the Homla, while Abrahallen gives Hommelvik its sports hall near the centre, the gathering points of a village set at the head of the Hommelvika in the central part of Trøndelag.
What is the history of Hommelvik?
Hommelvik grew where the river Homla runs north into the Trondheimsfjord, and the village took its name from that river at the head of the Hommelvika. The bay drew settlement to its sheltered head, and the parish church of Malvik kirke served the scattered farms along the shore before the modern centre formed around the inner bay. The river named the place.
As the route along the fjord toward Trondheim took shape, Hommelvik gathered houses and trade at the waterline, and Hommelvik kirke rose to mark the growing village at the centre of the parish. The settlement became the administrative centre of Malvik Municipality in Trøndelag county. Around it the older landscape held on, the chapel at Mostadmark kapell standing among the farms up the Homla valley while the new centre spread along the bay.
Hommelvik kept its place at the head of the Hommelvika, the seat of its municipality and the gathering point for the shore villages of Muruvika and Vikhammer in the central part of Trøndelag.
Where is Hommelvik?
Hommelvik lies at the end of the Hommelvika, a bay off the Trondheimsfjord, in the central part of Trøndelag. The river Homla runs north through the village and empties into the fjord at the head of the bay, with the smaller settlements of Muruvika and Smiskaret along the shore nearby. Hills rise behind the water.
Malvik Municipality reaches inland from the bay up the Homla valley toward Mostadmark, while the shore road runs west toward Vikhammer and on toward the wider fjord and Trondheim in central Norway.
What is the climate of Hommelvik?
Hommelvik has the cool, damp climate of the inner Trondheimsfjord. Winters stay cold and often snowy, though the water of the bay and the fjord keeps the hardest frost off the low ground around the mouth of the Homla through much of the season. Summers are short and mild.
The long northern daylight warms the head of the Hommelvika under bright evenings, while cloud and rain off the fjord reach this part of Trøndelag in every month, the hills behind the village catching the weather first.
How do you get to Hommelvik?
Hommelvik sits on the rail line that runs along the Trondheimsfjord toward Trondheim. Trains stop in the village a short walk from Hommelvik kirke and the shore of the Hommelvika, and the main road follows the same shore through Vikhammer toward the city. Many arrive by car.
The road through Malvik Municipality carries the fjordside traffic west toward Trondheim and east into Trøndelag, while the wider air links of the region handle the longer journeys of travellers reaching this corner of central Norway from farther afield.