Hvitsten

Hvitsten is a church in Vestby, Akershus. Hvitsten is situated nearby to the hamlet Ramme Gaard.

Type: Church
Denomination: Lutheran
Also known as: “Hvitsten kirke”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Pepperstad skog.

Pepperstad skog

Residential area

Pepperstad skog is a village in Vestby, Akershus, Norway. Pepperstad skog is situated 2½ km east of Hvitsten.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hvitsten and Ramme Gaard.

Hvitsten is a former town in Akershus county, Norway, located between Drøbak and Son. It is the smallest town that has ever existed in Norway: In 1951 it had 76 inhabitants, and an area of just 0.07 km2.

Ramme Gaard

Hamlet

Photo: Øyvind, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Ramme Gaard is an organic farm and country estate located by the Oslofjord, just north of Hvitsten in the Vestby municipality of Akershus, Norway. Ramme Gaard was previously owned by billionaire philanthropist Petter Olsen.

Drøbak

Photo: Øyvind Holmstad, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Drøbak is in the Frogn municipality, in the county of Akershus in Norway, at the shores of the Oslofjord, a few miles south-east of Oslo.

Hvitsten

Categories: building, place of worship, and religion
Location: Vestby, Akershus, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude

59.59927° or 59° 35′ 57″ north

Longitude

10.65865° or 10° 39′ 31″ east

Elevation

24 metres (79 feet)

Inception

1902

Operator

Vestby kirkelige fellesråd

Open location code

9FFGHMX5+PF

OpenStreetMap ID

way 795946507

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=place_of_worship

OpenStreetMap feature

building=church

OpenStreetMap attribute

denomination=lutheran

GeoNames ID

8532866

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In Other Languages

“Hvitsten” goes by many names.

Norwegian: “Hvitsten”

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