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Hergisheim

Buildings and structures in LarvikHouses completed in 1927
Wildenvey house
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Hergisheim is a house in Stavern, Norway. It is classified as an artist's home because the novelist Gisken Wildenvey (1895–1985) and her husband the poet Herman Wildenvey (1885–1959) lived in the house from 1927 onward.The Wildenveys came to Stavern in 1923 in search of a country house. The apartment where they had lived in Copenhagen from 1913 to 1920 had burned down, and the insurance settlement served as initial capital for construction. They moved in for Christmas in 1927, having previously rented in Stavern. The house is described in Gisken Wildenvey's memoirs Kjærlighet varer lengst (Love Lasts Longest, 1975) and in Tom Lotherington's biography of Herman Wildenvey, Wildenvey – et dikterliv (Wildenvey: A Poet's Life, 1993). The Herman Wildenvey Poetry Award is awarded annually at Hergisheim.The name Hergisheim was created by combining the first syllables of the couple's names. The house is owned by the Wildenvey family.

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Hergisheim
Vardeveien, Larvik

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Minnehallen
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Minnehallen or Hall of Remembrance is a national memorial located outside Stavern in Larvik, Vestfold, Norway. The memorial was commissioned by the Norwegian Parliament after World War I to commemorate the fallen Norwegian sailors of the war. It was unveiled by King Haakon VII and was later converted to the national monument commemorating fallen sailors of both World War I and World War II. The monument itself is a pyramid of locally quarried rock and is designed by two architects from Oslo, Andreas Hesselberg Bjercke (1883–1967) and Georg Christen Eliassen (1880–1964).Nic Schiøll has made a relief describing the lives and fate of the sailors as well as a decoration in the crypt. Copper tablets display the names of 1,892 sailors who died during World War I and 3,456 names of sailors who died in World War II. In addition, three protocols contain the names of 5,667 sailors. The interior of the hall is visited by some 20,000 people every year.Herman Wildenvey wrote Minnehallen, a poem displayed on the rock altar in the hall. The first and last verse read as follows: Landets egne, mand og kvinne Konge, folk og raad, reiste dette æresminde over sjømænds daad. Her hvor hav og land som brødre deler storm og sol Samles søsken, fædre, mødre, om et stort symbolThe country's own, man and woman King, people, and council raised this remembrance of honor over the deed of the sailor. Here where sea and land as brothers share storm and sun Bring together siblings, fathers, mothers around a great symbol.Hvil i fred, hver fredens kriger i din våte grav. Taus du sank, mindet stiger her som sol av hav. Atter blir mot dagen hævet alt som havet tok. Og vi vet dit navn er skrevet i en evig bok.Rest in peace, each warrior for peace in your watery grave Silently you sank, the memory ascends here like the sun of the sea. Everything which the sea took is increased by the day. And we know your name is written in an eternal book.