Reader’s letter This is a debate entry, written by an external contributor. The post expresses the writer’s views.
The Elector of Saxony sent miners to Kongsberg. Now that the city is 400 years old, we can think that they played an important role in the first years of the silver works. Families in Kongsberg can still trace their ancestry back to Saxony. Likewise, families in Saxony have descendants in Bergstaden by Lågen.
Now that the Norwegian krone is weak, the opportunity is there to make trips from Saxony to Kongsberg. In good cooperation with Color Line and Kielferga, hotels and others in the travel industry, there is a market. The possibilities are great. Dinner at Haus Sachsen, for example. Trip in the mining hill. Kongsberg church and old church books that show who came and how they fared. In Kongsberg church, services were held in German and Norwegian until 1791.
I got the idea that tourism here could develop an interesting market from a bus driver with long experience of trips to the continent.
It is only a matter of striking for enterprising players in the industry.