Where to Stay in Straumen, Trøndelag

Straumen is the centre of the Inderøy district in the north-eastern part of Trøndelag, a parish country thick with old churches. The medieval stone church of Sakshaug gamle kirke is the best-known of them, standing beside the newer Sakshaug kirke near the town. Art draws visitors too.

Nils Aas Kunstverksted gives Straumen an art museum at its heart, set among the farms and fjord shore of Inderøy in this corner of central Norway.

Sakshaug gamle kirke stands near Straumen, a medieval stone church and the oldest landmark of the Inderøy district. The newer Sakshaug kirke serves the parish beside it. Art fills the town.

Nils Aas Kunstverksted gives Straumen its art museum, while the heritage churches of Salberg kirke, Heggstad kirke and Hustad kirke ring the surrounding parishes, the fixed points of an old church country in the north-eastern part of Trøndelag.

Straumen grew as the gathering point of the Inderøy district in the north-eastern part of Trøndelag, where the parishes of the fjord country came together. The medieval stone church of Sakshaug gamle kirke marks how deep that history runs, a church of the twelfth century standing among the farms long before the modern town formed. Stone outlasts everything.

Around the old parishes the heritage churches of Salberg kirke, Heggstad kirke and Hustad kirke served the scattered settlements, while Sakshaug kirke rose later beside its medieval forerunner near the centre. Straumen became the service town of Inderøy, the place where the trade and administration of the district gathered in Trøndelag. The old churches kept their place across the parishes, and in the town Nils Aas Kunstverksted brought an art museum to the centre, named for the sculptor of the district.

Straumen held its role as the meeting point for the farms, the fjord shore and the church parishes of this part of central Norway.

Straumen lies on the fjord shore of the Inderøy district in the north-eastern part of Trøndelag. The town sits where the farmland meets the water, the parishes spreading out along the shore and over the low ground around the centre. Water and farmland frame the town.

Sakshaug kirke and the medieval Sakshaug gamle kirke stand near Straumen, while Salberg kirke and Heggstad kirke mark the country parishes spread across the fjord-side land of Inderøy in this part of central Norway.

Straumen has the cool, damp fjord climate of the north-eastern part of Trøndelag. Winters stay cold and often snowy, though the fjord water around Inderøy keeps the hardest frost off the low farmland near the town through much of the season. Summers are short and green.

The long northern daylight warms the shore parishes around Sakshaug kirke under bright evenings, while cloud and rain off the fjord reach Straumen in every month of central Norway, the open water tempering the worst of the cold.

Straumen is reached by the roads that run through the fjord country of Inderøy in the north-eastern part of Trøndelag. The main road carries most visitors to the town near Nils Aas Kunstverksted and Sakshaug kirke and on through the parishes toward Salberg kirke. Few come any other way.

The roads link Straumen to the wider district of Inderøy and the towns beyond, while the longer journeys of travellers reaching this corner of central Norway rely on the regional road and air links of the region.