telemark

That's quite a canal!

Title should be Vrangfos Lock, not Vuangfos. Nowadays Vrangfoss (litt. "difficult waterfall").

Also, the canal is nowadays called "Telemarkskanalen", i. e. Telemark Canal. It goes all the way from Dalen to the sea (Skagerrak), with a side-arm stretching north to Notodden. Just great for canoeing and camping!

Vrangfoss is the correct name. It is also a regrettable fact that nowadays tourist agencies use the collective name Telemarkskanalen for two canalizing projects with different history, but linked by the Norsjø lake: Bandakkanalen (or Norsjø-Bandakkanalen) and Skien-Norsjøkanalen Vrangfoss is the highest waterfall on the Bandak canal / Bandakkanalen Central area of the picture is position 6573658 N, 511558 E.. UTMV32 General axis of view about straight NW , probably shot from a small elevation beside the old tourist pathway between Eidsfoss and Vrangfoss: Kongens utsikt (The King's view, don't actually know wether the union king of Norway and Sweden actually ever stood there, but he visited the canal a year after the opening ceremony) at position 6573512 N, 511702 E. UTMV32

This looks like a very simple but elegant canal. It doesn't look like it's cluttering the area like most seem to do.

Living in Telemark, my husband drove me to this hotel once, and we stopped and had coffee from a thermos in our car here. It is still as interesting and a remarkable structure. Next time we'll have to go inside. It is also a very special drive to Dalen. The parking lot is now where the grass is, though is luckily not large.

Too bad we can't add map locations to Library of Congress photoes. Anyway: This is here: maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geo...

You can stay at this hotel today also, for map and contact information: rlb.no/hotel/info/40

I stayed there last summer. Fantastic! Almost everything is kept in the old style. Wonderful to find to a top hotel with no TV in the room! Hotel homepage: www.dalenhotel.no/ It was built in 1894, so it was probably brand new in this photo. The travelling photographer obviously was onboard a boat going from Skien up the Telemark Canal ending here in Dalen. From here, they went over the mountain to Hardangerfjorden, and crossed from Voss to Sognefjorden. This was apparently a popular trip among the wealthy at that time. It's mentioned in a book about the history of this hotel. Of course, it is still possible and recommendable to do today.

Den tyske teksten er vel bedre. Dette er et lokomotiv - ikke en "vogn".