Stjørdalshalsen

Stjørdal is a town in Trøndelag in Norway.

Understand
Stjørdalshalsen (or Stjørdal for short) is situated at the mouth of Stjørdal valley. It is the centre for Stjørdal district. The Stjørdal valley stretches for some 70 km from Trondheimsfjord to the border with Sweden. The lower part of the valley is relatively wide agricultural flatlands. The flatlands at the mouth is home to Stjørdal town with some 12,000 people as well as Trondheim airport and Hell suburb on the other side of the airport. The upper part of the valley is more or less a river gorge, except at Meråker village.

Stjørdalshalsen/Hell is an important junction as the road and the railway connections with Sweden joins the Norwegian network there.

Hell


Hell is a village and suburb of Stjørdal town, separated from the centre by the runway. Hell has some 1,400 inhabitants administratively part of the Stjørdal municipality. While there's very little to see there, except for an annual blues festival in September, it's always fun to get a picture of yourself outside Gods Expedition (freight forwarding office). The name Hell stems from the Old Norse word hellir, which means "overhang", "cliff cave". The Norwegian word hell can also mean "luck". The Old Norse word Hel is the same as today's English Hell, and as a proper noun, Hel was the ruler of Hel. In modern Norwegian the word for hell is helvete.

Hell is some 1.5 km (1 mile) from the airport.

By car

 * The town is situated next to Norway's main north-south highway, E6, some 40 kilometers from Trondheim. Coming from Sweden, E14 ends in Stjørdal north of the airport.

By train
Trains are operated by Vy (formerly NSB), who also sells the tickets.



Buy
Among English-speaking tourists, popular postcards depict the station with a heavy frost on the ground, making a visual joke about "Hell frozen over." Temperatures in Hell can reach -20 °C during winter.

Eat


Self-catering is also an option - there are grocery stores in the mall and the airport also offers lighter meals. For finer dining, head to the restaurant at Rica Hell Hotel.

Drink
Vertigo Bar is located at the Rica Hell Hotel.

Go next

 * Sweden: Storlien – ski resort, the first town in Sweden after the border. It has a railway embankment, being rebuilt into a bridge, which is called "Stora Helvetet", literally "Big Hell", on intention because of the trouble of building it.
 * Trondheim