Minnehallen
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| Minnehallen | |
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| Norway | |
 Minnehallen from the entrance side. |
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| For Norwegian merchant sailors killed during WWI and WWII. | |
| Unveiled | 1 August 1926 |
| Location | Kruttårnkollen near Stavern |
| Designer | Andreas H. Bjercke and Georg Eliassen |
Minnehallen or The hall of remembrance was commissioned by the Norwegian parliament after World War I to comemorate the fallen Norwegian sailors of the war. It was unveiled by king Haakon VII and was later converted to the national monument comemorating fallen sailors of both World War I and World War II.
The interior of the hall in visited by about 20 000 people every year.
The monument itself is a pyramide of localy quarried rock and is designed by two architects from Oslo, Andreas H. Bjercke and Georg Eliassen.
Nic. Schiøll has made a relieff describing the lives and fate of the sailors as well as a decoration in the crypt. 28 copper tablets display the names of 1892 sailors dead in WWI and 3456 names of sailors who died in WWII. In addition three protocols contain the names of 5667 sailors.
Herman Wildenvey wrote a poem displayed on the rock altar in the hall. The first and last verse reads 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 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.
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