Holla, Telemark

Holla was a parish, district and former municipality now located in the municipality of Nome in Telemark, Norway.

Holla herred
Former Municipality
Adm. CenterHolla
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Merged with Lunde toNome in 1964

History

Holla is situated in the traditional region of Midt-Telemark. Holla parish included the churches at Holla and Helgen both in Telemark county. The parish of Holden (Holla) was established as a municipality January 1, 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The municipality centre was Ulefoss. On 1 January 1964 the district of Valebø with 259 inhabitants was moved to Skien. The rest of Holla, then with 4,093 inhabitants, was merged with Lunde to form the new municipality of Nome.[1]

The name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the Holla farm (Holla gård) – the biggest farm in Telemark. (Old Norse Höllin, from *Hallvin), since the first church was built there. The first element is hallr 'sloping', the last element is vin f 'meadow'.[2] Until 1889 the name was written Holden. During the period 1889–1917, the name was written as Hollen. Dating from 1918, the spelling of the name has been Holla.

Holla Church ruins
Holla church ruins

Old Holla or Holden Church was a medieval stone church, situated near the Holla gård. The church had a view over lake Norsjø. Today only the ruins (Holla kyrkjeruin) are left. [3]

Holla Church

Holla Church (Holla Kirke) is a Gothic Revival-style church which dates from 1867. The church was donated to the community by Severin Diderik Cappelen (1820-1881) who was the owner of Ulefos Jernværk and served as mayor in Holla. The structure is of brick and has 600 seats. The architect was Peter Høier Holtermann (1820-1865). The church was restored during 1916.[4]

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gollark: ARM is an instruction set. "Traditional CPU[s]" use the x86 instruction set. People argue a lot over which design is best but broadly speaking there doesn't seem to be *that* much difference, although x86 has some advantages like I think greater code density and downsides like variable length instructions being annoying to decode.
gollark: That's not a very valid comparison. But Apple's cores are somewhat better than available x86 ones.
gollark: Apparently they did lose most of their CPU design team to some other company recently, so who knows.
gollark: It's really annoying to me that you can only get the best CPUs with Apple's ridiculous ecosystem and design.

References
  1. Helgen kirke (Hollen, Norway)
  2. Holla – gård i Nome kommune (Store norske leksikon) Archived 2012-10-22 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Old Holla or Holden Church (Nome Kommune)
  4. Diderik Cappelen (A short history of the Cappelen family)

Other sources
  • Halvorsen, Tormod (1986) Tidsskrift for Holla historielag (Holla historielag)
  • Hauge, Yngvar (1957) Ulefos jernværk 1657-1957 (Oslo: Aschehoug)

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