Nesttun is an urban centre and neighbourhood in the southern parts of the city of Bergen

Bergen

Bergen is the second largest city in Norway with a population of as of , . Bergen is the administrative centre of Hordaland county. Greater Bergen or Bergen Metropolitan Area as defined by Statistics Norway, has a population of as of , ....

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

, located approximately 10 km south of the city centre. It was the centre of Fana

Fana

Fana is a borough of the city of Bergen, Norway.-History:Prior to 1972, Fana was an independent municipality which territory also included today's boroughs of Ytrebygda, Fyllingsdalen, and the southernmost part of Årstad.-Geography:...

 municipality, which merged with Bergen in 1972, and is today the administration centre of Fana borough. Nesttun contains a mall, several smaller shops, and a library. A problem facing Nesttun is flooding after heavy rain. In 2005 heavy rain caused the river that flows through the town to break its banks. Despite complaints from business owners, the problem has since not been addressed by the municipality.

Transport

Until the opening of the Ulriken Tunnel

Ulriken Tunnel

Ulriken Tunnel is a railway tunnel on the Bergen Line between Bergen Station and Arna Station in Norway. The long tunnel runs under the northern part of the mountain Ulriken in Bergen. Before the tunnel was opened in 1964, the Bergen Line ran via Nesttun. This stretch is now a heritage railway,...

 in 1964, Nesttun was a station on the Bergensbanen

Bergensbanen

The Bergen Line , also called the Bergen Railway, is a standard gauge railway line between Bergen and Hønefoss, Norway. The name is often applied for the entire route from Bergen via Drammen to Oslo, where the passenger trains go, a distance of...

 railway, and a station on the Nesttun-Osbanen

Nesttun-Osbanen

The Nesttun–Os Railway was a narrow gauge railway between Nesttun, now part of Bergen, and the community of Osøyro in Os municipality, Norway. As the first private railway in Norway, it opened 1 June 1894, designed to connect Os to the Voss Line, allowing for passenger and freight transport to...

 railway until its closure in 1935. After lengthy construction work, the two double-lane roads which went through the centre of Nesttun were converted into a pedestrian mall and a single-lane road. Nesttun is a major traffic junction

Junction (traffic)

A junction, when discussed in the context of transport, is a location where traffic can change between different routes, directions, or sometimes modes, of travel.-Historical significance:...

 of the Bergen area, and this status will be strengthened in 2010, when the first phase of the Bergen Light Rail system

Bergen Light Rail

Bergen Light Rail is a light rail system in Bergen, Norway. The first stage of the project is a fifteen-station, stretch between the city center and Nesttun, which opened on 22 June 2010...

 is completed. Buses to the city centre of Bergen depart Nesttun every five minutes.

Education

There are several schools in the immediate vicinity of Nesttun. Midtun skole and Slåtthaug ungdomsskole are located directly to the south, the former being an elementary school

Elementary school

An elementary school or primary school is an institution where children receive the first stage of compulsory education known as elementary or primary education. Elementary school is the preferred term in some countries, particularly those in North America, where the terms grade school and grammar...

 and the latter a lower secondary school. Ulsmåg skole, an elementary school, is located to the east of Nesttun. The closest upper secondary schools are Fana gymnas

Fana gymnas

Fana Gymnas is a Public high school located in the district of Fana in the city of Bergen, Norway. The school was founded in 1916 as a Middle school and the headmaster was the father of Nordahl Grieg. The school became a high school in 1935. The school is maybe most famous by there annually play,...

, the Rudolf Steiner school of Bergen, and Slåtthaug videregående skole, as well as Bjørkåsen videregående skole, a special school for deaf students.

External links

• Nesttun.no