Kongsberg information

This article is about the Norwegian town. For the industrial corporation named Kongsberg, see Kongsberg Gruppen (with links to subsidiary firms). Kongsberg is a municipality and town at the southern end of the Numedal valley, in the county of Buskerud, Norway.
The town was founded in 1624 under the name Konings Bierg by Danish-Norwegian king Christian IV as a mining community (see below), and was granted its royal charter of trade-amounting to official township-in 1802. Kongsberg was established as a municipality January 1, 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The rural municipalities of Ytre Sandsvær and Øvre Sandsvær were merged with Kongsberg January 1, 1964.
Today, Kongsberg is perhaps best known for being the home of Norway's major defence contractor, The Kongsberg Group, formerly Kongsberg Vaapenfabrikk. One of its products was the Kongsberg Colt. (...) more....

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