One of the main north-south in Norway is the European Route 6 (E 6). It ends in Kirkenes in Finnmark. Shortly before the end a few miles from Kirkenes leads her way past a crossroads. There is a side road branches off to the Finnish From border, just 10 miles from the E6 away. At this intersection is cutting.
Envy is a small village in Finnmark, which certainly, at least temporarily, has more tourists than residents. In turn, they will not arrive often passionate angler. Envy is known for the past flowing river, the Neidenfluß, with its waterfall, the Skoltefossen, and you guessed it, what out right lures anglers to this point: it is the incredible number and huge salmon that the fishermen on Skoltefossen in the nets and the Angel go like the milk and honey roast chicken countries.
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| envy river to the waterfall Skoltefossen |
result of this salmon wealth developed the Käpälä fishing, originally a ostsamische fishing technique, which is carried out with throw nets. In the waterfall Skoltefossen four summer weeks will be ejected from the long work days every two hours from 18 bis 14 clock nets and by only 14 bis 18 clock, a break is inserted. At 12 clock each of the last hours of the catch is pulled ashore.
measured by the kilogram caught salmon was the envy of river 1997 to seventh in the most productive rivers in Norway.
Locals envy are mostly of Finnish descent. Finnish nomads settled in the 16th Century at this point down, perhaps not least because of the fish wealth of the area. In modern times, Envy is also a center ostsamischer culture in Norway.
The Finns built already in 1565 a small Russian-othodoxes church. This chapel was built in log cabin style and is now known as St. George's Chapel. It is the oldest building in Finnmark. A small cemetery, from the simple wooden fence enclosed, rounded up from the idyllic spot surrounded by nature. Every year on the last Sunday in August, there will be a traditional open-air service.
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| St. George's Chapel, the oldest building in the Finnmark |
Who is in the consideration of the landscape on Google over the "straight lines in the envy River "wonder, here we find the reason: Recording provides a geological feature. In the hills around the river envy is former seabed. These are characterized as straight lines in the Landscapes.
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