Bøen

Bøen is a suburb in , , . Bøen is situated nearby to the neighborhood , as well as near .

Places of Interest

Highlights include Rjukan Station and Såheim Hydroelectric Power Station.

Railway station
Photo: Bergenga, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is the terminal railway station of the Rjukan Line, located at in Tinn Municipality, . The station opened as part of the railway on 9 August 1909 as Saaheim, until renaming to Rjukan on 15 November 1912.

Industrial building
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Såheim Power Station is a hydroelectric power station located in , , Norway, operated by Norsk Hydro. It operates at an installed capacity of 185 MW, with an average annual production of 1,033 GWh.

Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Tinn Municipality in county, . It is located in the town of . It is one of the churches for the Rjukan parish which is part of the Øvre Telemark prosti in the Diocese of Agder og Telemark.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rjukan.

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a town in the Tinn municipality of , . The town was founded in 1908 by Sam Eyde, who started the plan of building a city from scratch, after buying the renowned waterfall to make electric power for fertilizer production.

Bøen

Latitude
59.87954° or 59° 52′ 46″ north
Longitude
8.59347° or 8° 35′ 37″ east
Elevation
302 metres (991 feet)
Open location code
9FFCVHHV+R9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 390438905
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
9304161
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

“Bøen” goes by many names.
  • Norwegian: “Bøen”

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