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NæringspoddenTerje Lindstrøm - GL-GruppenTerje Lindstrøm har jobbet i entreprenør-bransjen på Haugalandet i over 40 år, og er daglig leder i GL-Gruppen, Haugalandets største entreprenør-selskap. Selskapet har bygget alt fra store boligkomplekser og forretningsbygg til skoler, sykehus og svømmebassenger gjennom flere tiår. Terje er en engasjert leder som jobber for gode rammebetingelser og trygge arbeidsforhold for de ansatte. Den tidligere vektløfteren, svømmeren og fotballspilleren er også et aktivt styremedlem, blant annet i Byggopp Rogaland, Entreprenørforeningen - Bygg og Anlegg og Næringsforeningen Haugalandet. Vi får også besøk av Karianne Ellefsen i Haugaland Vekst, som forteller om...2023-04-121h 07
Historiske dryppEpisode 42: Den Geographiske LandevejsvandrerNorway's most famous historian, playwright and scholar in the 1700s, Ludvig Holberg from Bergen, has a small connection with the small port town Lillesand in southern Norway. But it is all rather tenuous..2020-12-2909 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 41: En sjalupp driver i landAfter the Royal Navy had bombarded Copenhagen into submission in the late summer of 1807, little was left of the once proud Dano-Norwegian navy stationed there. The British stole all functional vessels and destroyed those that were under construction. Among the loot brought back from Copenhagen were several small gunboats - some of which somehow got loose in the North Sea and drifted onto the southern coast of Norway. One such gun-sloop was the Holbæk, which came ashore at Gamle Hellesund in Høvåg november 11th 1807...2020-12-2215 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 40: Sure minerIn the aftermath of World War 1, a joint Anglo-American seamine blocade of the North Sea caused problems for the inhabitants of southern Norway. The post-war clean-up had left in excess of 70.000 mines still adrift in the ocean, and when bad winter storms raged in the Skagerrak, the poor inhabitants of outports and island farms, as well as coastal traffic, had to be very, very careful...2020-12-1515 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 39: Hammers hus - og pæretre!The first mayor of Lillesand (1837-43) was Lars Hammer, a man from Vang in rural eastern Norway. He made his way south to work as a clerk in the offices of Stener and Severine Stenersen at Lillesand and Møglestu, and was a self-made man who talked his way into marrying the daughter of vicar and "founding father" Hans Jacob Grøgaard. In the 1820s, a couple of young lawyers visited Hammer in his lovely garden in Lillesand and made a bet with high stakes...2020-12-0810 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 38: Hvalfangst i BlindleiaThe coastal archipelago in Høvåg and Lillesand is widely known by the name 'Blindleia', and attracts thousands of boat tourists each summer. 200 years ago it attracted a very different kind of visitor; a large, water-dwelling mammal...2020-12-0108 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 37: Den første postekspeditørenA well educated merchant and ship owner from Stavanger moved to Kristiansand in 1808, only to then move to the neighbouring port town Lillesand. The reasons were mainly financial; Bendix Nyrop Rosenkilde kept going bankrupt! In Lillesand he took on many roles in his new hometown - including becoming its first post office manager. 2020-11-2407 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 36: En svensk ekspedisjon søker nødhavnIn 1747 a Finno-Swedish natural philosopher was on his way to the Colonies in North America when his ship encountered foul weather in the Skagerrak and was forced to seek a safe harbour somewhere in southern Norway. During the next months, Carl Linnaeus' pupil Pehr Kalm investigated the area between Kristiansand and Arendal, travelling from his base in Grimstad. Among the many places he visited, were the churches at Birkenes and Vestre Moland, as well as the outport Brekkestø. 2020-11-1710 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 35: Hvor lå Café Lillesand?A mysterious, old picture of a café with a familiar name - in an unfamiliar city - turned out to be something quite different... The episode investigates into the background and business practices of the sailors' Café Lillesand in the 1800s and 1900s.2020-11-1009 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 34: Sjøslaget utenfor UlvøysundDuring the Napoleonic wars, the Dano-Norwegian navy was stolen and/or destroyed when the Royal Navy attacked Copenhagen in 1807. A few ships of the line and frigates escaped, but were later hunted down. Thus, apart from the small gunboats that were being contructed in both Denmark and Norway to protect the coasts, a small number of brigs were the only ships available to the Dano-Norwegian navy. Outside Ulvøysund in Høvåg, a division of three such brigs encountered a couple of British brigs on their way home from the Baltic...2020-11-0311 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 33: Når kom kompasset hit?The advent of the compass revolutionised not only navigation on the seven seas, but also affairs ashore. A mediaeval invention of probably eastern origin, this new device found great success in Europe. Before long, hand-held versions appeared, even among the farms and harbours of southern Norway... 2020-10-2707 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 32: Wehrmacht på Ålebekk og TingsagerDuring World War 2, the German occupation forces, aided by Norwegian contractors, Organisation Todt, prisoners of war and others, built a huge amount of defensive works around their camps, harbours and airports, as well as along the coast, to prevent Allied interference. The eastern approach to Lillesand and both its remaining and demolished fortifications are the subject of this episode. 2020-10-2008 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 31: En tysk ekspedisjon i 1808Between 1807-1814, Norway was - at times - at war with Sweden, as well as being blockaded by British men-of-war for most of the period. However, a German science expedition to Sweden, Lapland and Norway had managed to get in and do its field research. By late 1808, geologist and paleontologist Leopold von Buch's expedition had reached Kristiansand, a port town with a large garrison and virtually a nest of privateers - and neighbour to the much smaller port town of Lillesand. With British warships patroling the Skagerrak, how could they possibly get across the sea to Denmark?2020-10-1308 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 30: Bautaen på Det glade hjørnetIn ancient times, standing stones were erected in many countries. What their function was is impossible to say, though it is likely they were monuments and/or boundary markers. Standing stones without text or pictures are very difficult to date; at any rate, one such stone was located in the middle of Lillesand town for centuries. At the corner of the customs house, the so-called 'happy corner', the stone stood, and later, lay, but as late as the 1990s, it was removed by ignorant road workers. 2020-10-0608 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 29: Fire tyske lokomotiverIn the 1870s, work began on trying to build a railroad from the port town of Lillesand to Flaksvann near Birkeland, where logs sent by the Tovdal river were collected. When construction finally began in the 1890s, four locomotives were ordered from the factory of Richard Hartmann in Chemnitz - though the Lillesand-Flaksvann railway only received two of them. Where did the other two end up?2020-09-2905 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 28: Grøgaards elektrisermaskinStatic electricity was the first type of electricity to be harnessed. In the 18th century, manual power generators were used to produce a small static charge as a form of early electrotherapy. As one of the rationalist "potato priests" of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the many-facetted Hans Jacob Grøgaard apparantly built and used such a device on sick members of his congregation in the parishes of Vestre Moland and Høvåg between 1811-1823. 2020-09-2209 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 27: Det andre kystfortetIn late 1940 the German occupation force in Norway was ordered to start the construction of a chain of coastal fortifications - in effect a continuation of the Atlantikwall which streched all the way from France's border with Spain. The army coastal battery at Justøya is well known locally, but perhaps less known is the coastal battery that was moved from Marivoll outside Grimstad to the Vestre Moland vicarage in august 1944. These batteries were practically identical in armament, but the latter did not have the extensive concrete fortifications of the former. Also, being situated on farmland, it was quickly r...2020-09-1507 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 26: Vestre Moland kirkes sørveggThe medieval stone church at Vestre Moland in Lillesand dates back to the 1100s. However, in the intervening centuries, the church has been changed both inside and outside, and many extensions have been made to the building. Using written records from the middle ages through the 1800s, this episode takes a look at the history of the building in general, and its southern wall in particular. 2020-09-0807 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 25: Mads Møglestues husThe origins of the estate Tingsager near Lillesand goes back to time immemorial. Surrounded by rich forrests, fields and a river, and located by the end of an arm of the Lillesand fjord, this estate was once owned - though not inhabited by - nobility. By the late 1700s, it was in the hands of perhaps the richest and most industrious man in the area: Mads Møglestue. It was he who built the huge wooden house that unfortunately went up in smoke in 1896..2020-09-0112 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 24: En lang togtur i 1919When the Lillesand-Flaksvand railway was established in 1896 as the first railroad in the region, a new mode of transport was introduced between Lillesand and Flaksvann, not to mention Birkeland. The railroad was, however, contructed on a rather small budget, and the two German-made locomotives were only capable of producing 100 horsepower each and a maximum speed of 20 kph. In the snowy winter of 1919, the passengers on the train to Birkeland certainly found out just how weak the locomotives were...2020-08-2505 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 23: Grøgaards silhuettIf portrait painters were scarce and/or too expensive, how did people have their likenesses taken before the advent of photography? Why, cut in black carton paper, of course! In the 18th and pre-photograph 19th century, cutting silhouettes was the hip and comparativly cheap way to create portraits of families or individuals. The reverend and Eidsvollsmann Hans Jacob Grøgaard at Vestre Moland rectory near Lillesand was - together with his wife Anne Marie Krog - recorded in this medium some time around 1800. 2020-08-1809 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 22: De molandske gravsteinerIn most cases in Norway, the oldest building in the vicinity is the church. A short walk from Lillesand town brings you to Vestre Moland church, a romanesque stone church with 17th-19th century wooden additions. But right next to the south wall lies a priceless piece of cultural heritage: a shield-shaped stone coffin lid with a raised cross. How old could it be? What is it doing by the church wall? And are there others like it? Have a listen as we investigate...2020-08-1111 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 21: Lillesandsball for GrimstadfolkMathias Gundersen from Grimstad was among other things mayor of Grimstad, sawmill owner and ship builder. During this final episode in a series of three, we'll have a listen to parts of his memoirs concerning Lillesand and its inhabitants in the 1840's. This episode primarily concerns the time captain John Salvesen from Grimstad built a new home in Lillesand and had to throw a ball in order to finance the house. Most of the guests travelled by sleigh through forrests and across frozen lakes to reach Salvesens potluck - but not all of the locals were pleased... 2020-08-0409 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 20: Robert Majors sønn og hans venner fra GrimstadMathias Gundersen from Grimstad was among other things mayor of Grimstad, sawmill owner and ship builder. During the next couple of episodes we'll continue to have a listen to parts of his memoirs concerning Lillesand and its inhabitants in the 1840's. This episode primarily concerns Harald Major, brother of Herman Major mentioned last week, and son of the Irish rebel and tannery owner Robert Major. 2020-07-2809 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 19: Med gamp og damp søroverMathias Gundersen from Grimstad was among other things mayor of Grimstad, sawmill owner and ship builder. During the next three episodes we'll have a listen to parts of his memoirs concerning Lillesand and its inhabitants in the 1840's. This episode primarily concerns the father of Norwegian psychiatry, dr. Herman Emil Major. 2020-07-2108 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 18: Uten mat og drikke - gjennom åreneThe advent of the 17th century means only one thing to historians of Norwegian history: finally extensive sources! The Dano-Norwegian administration were heavily into counting things, whether sawmills, men eligible for navy or army service, ships coming or going, or a number of other subjects. Combined with legal documents, diaries, and surviving physical items of the period, we are able to puzzle together an impression of what foodstuffs were avaiable to the people along the southern coast of Norway in the 1600s. 2020-07-1411 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 17: Excellencen i HumlesundLong before proper regional roads and railroads, boat was the fastest and best way to travel along the southern coast. When the new steam powered ships ushered in a new era of transportation in the 1820's, communication became easier, though at a price. The outport of Humlesund near Lillesand had been used as a safe harbour and hub for sailship travel for centuries, but when the coastal steamer 'Excellencen' approached Humlesund in 1912, something went wrong...2020-07-0709 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 16: Den svenske konsulenIn 1814, Norway declared its independence from Denmark. However, as the treaty of Kiel had ceded Norway to Sweden, and the de facto Swedish ruler, Jean Baptiste Bernadotte, was an experienced general with a battle-hardened and better supplied army than the Norwegian one, the country soon entered into a new, though more liberal, union. But the Swedish population were not intimately familiar with their new partner. A book based on the travel journals of Edward Gustaf Fölsch was to remedy this in the year 1817. 2020-06-3008 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 15: Den standhaftige tinnsoldat fra LundemoenPlaying with toy soldiers is a tradition which goes back at least to antiquity, but has probably always been present. When metal detectorist Tor Gunnar Heldal in 2018 found a 19th century tin cavalryman in a field near Lillesand, a little detective work was done to put this find into context. 2020-06-2305 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 14: Parykkmakeren i LillesandThe powdered wig, although rarely used today except by legal practitioners in certain countries, was also a feature of Norwegian rural fashion in the 1700s. Even the tiny port town of Lillesand (pop. 50-100 at the time) had its own wig maker. But who was he, where did he come from, and what happened to him?2020-06-1609 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 13: Ole Høiland på Møglestu?Apart from Gjest Baardsen, the most famous and infamous "Robin Hood"-style thief of 19th century Norway was Ole Høiland. He was on the run in southern Norway several times, and rumours have it he even visited the fabulously wealthy widow madame Stenersen at Møglestu near Lillesand to try to steal her money. Nevermind folk tales, what do the facts say? Let's find out!2020-06-0913 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 12: Den norske militære innsats i Lillesand og Birkenes april 1940On april 8 1940, the German troop transport ship "Rio de Janeiro" was torpedoed by the polish submarine ORP "Orzel" outside Høvåg near Lillesand. The local police promptly alerted the military and the government when they noticed the survivors were armed and uniformed. How did the army and navy respond to this challenge?2020-06-0210 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 11: Torvproduksjon på JustøyaBecause of the rich forests of Norway, peat was only used as fuel in a very few places. The peat bogs were unused resources, or so the naturalist and fairy-tale collector Peter Christen Asbjørnsen claimed. Thus, in the 1870s, a peat industry emerged many places in Norway - including Justøya near Lillesand. 2020-05-2613 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 10: Skipper LofthusTo be a merchant in the 1700s, the state of Denmark-Norway demanded one reside in a city and pay for a certificate in order to become a citizen of said place. However, quite a few such merhcant citizens simply bought the certificate and remained wherever they used to live - some did not even bother to get hold of a certificate. One such illegal captain was Christian Jensen Lofthuus in Nedenes county in southern Norway. 2020-05-1911 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 9: Da "nåla" kom til LillesandToday we take for granted all kinds of instant communication, especially since the outbreak of covid-19 swiftly isolated us all from actual physical contact. However, for most of human history, instant communication has not been the case. The ways of staying in touch across vast distances were few and unreliable. In 1855 a brand new communications revolution reached the southern part of Norway...2020-05-1210 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 8: Tvilsomme kolonialvarerDenmark-Norway was also a colonial power, owning the islands St. John, St. Thomas and St. Croix until they were sold to the US in 1917. While few Norwegians took part in the actual slave trade, many sailors helped colonial goods reach Denmark-Norway and keep the plantations going. Even people from the small port town of Lillesand in the south of Norway...2020-05-0508 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 7: Danegjeld på TingsagerWhen written sources fall silent, the objects of yesteryear speak to us. Why did Anglo-Saxon silver coins end up in southern Norway? Could this be part of something bigger?2020-04-2816 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 6: Svensken og snekkerenA travelling salesman, some newly-insured goods, and a middle-aged carpenter renting out his spare room for the night. Did they get on like a house on fire?2020-04-2108 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 5: En utmarsj i 1904The early years of the 20th century brought tension and a significant arms buildup in the then united kingdoms of Norway and Sweden. In 1904, one year before Norway gained independence from its neighbour, an infantry compani based at the Gimlemoen army camp near Kristiansand trekked through Birkenes, Lillesand and Høvåg as part of their training.2020-04-1409 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 4: Thomas Stenersen på danmarksferdAs time goes by, more and more written sources are made available online, whether originally handwritten or printed. Early newspapers and the Danish Sound toll register may be used to investigate the seafaring southerners e.g. in the 18th century.2020-04-0715 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 3: Zeppelin over LillesandUnfortunately this episode is not about the classic rock band; rather it is about a phenomenon that reached the southern coast of Norway during the first world war: German airships sneaking around gathering intelligence for the Kaiser. 2020-03-3108 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 2: Fogdfullmektigens husOne of the oldest houses in the small port town of Lillesand, Norway, is found to be even older. We also take a look at the people who built the house in 1781, and subsequentially probably had to move elsewhere to escape the angry friends of the rebel leader Christian Jensen Lofthuus. 2020-03-2411 minHistoriske dryppEpisode 1: Posten skal framA brief look at the history of the postal service in Norway, with a couple of local 19th century mail robberies thrown in for good measure. 2020-03-1806 min