The historic Eidsvoll - soldi er by the bridge

Eidsvoll Station – the old station building

The first railway in Norway was built from Kristiania to Eidsvold. It was opened in 1854. The station had a wharf, so that goods could easily be loaded onto boats and transported on to Norway's largest lake, Mjøsa.

The kneeling soldier

The monument "The kneeling soldier" is erected in the "triangle" in Sundgata at the western bridgehead of the old Sundbrua over the Vorma, south of the old Eidsvoll station.

By Eidsvoll church, there is a beautiful statue of Henrik Wergeland's sister Camilla Collett. Camilla Collett became a champion of women's causes and wrote, among other things, "Amtmandens døtre", which is considered the first realistic novel in Norway. Camilla Collett is one of the very few Norwegian women who has ended up on a plinth, and there are sculptures of her also in the Slottsparken in Oslo, in the National Library and on the Strandpromenaden in Kristiansand.

The Wergeland Oak

In the middle of Åsleia you will find a very old oak that Henrik Wergeland himself must have had a special relationship with. In the picture you see a poem Wergeland wrote in May 1845, and which was published in Morgenbladet on May 24 1845. It is believed that Henrik Wergeland wrote the poem while sitting under this tree.

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