Fetsund Booms

The Fetsund Booms are a Norwegian national cultural background monument, log riding museum, and wetland middle at the hole of the Glomma River into Lake Oyeren in Fetsund in Akershus County. The Fetsund Booms have been installation as a wooden sorting facility in 1861 and operated till 1985, whilst log using got here to an end on the Glomma River. Today the power is part of the Akershus Museum. The millennium site for the municipality of Fetsund is placed next to the Vinkelen constructing at the facility. It is a flood marker in the shape of a stone about 7 meters excessive with markings to document the very best flood tiers at the Glomma River.

Log using at the Glomma River began within the 1300s, but expanded whilst body saws were added in the sixteenth century. In the start, the wood turned into tied together inside the Glomma River at the Bingen Booms at Sorumsand. From there, the wooden rafts had been towed by boats to the numerous sawmills alongside the lake and in Lillestrom. When the railway bridge in Fetsund become built in 1861, the booms at Bingen have been moved to Fetsund. At Bingen, seize booms have been set up that could launch timber as needed at Fetsund. Todayfthe Fetsund Booms are covered as Norway's most effective remaining log-using facility. The Fetsund Booms are also believed to be the best preserved log-using facility in their type inside the world.