Herrschaft über Land und Schnee

Gugerli, David; Heymann, Matthias; Höhler, Sabine; Kohlrausch, Martin; Oldenziel, Ruth; Rieger, Bernhard; Weber, Heike; Zeller, Tanja; Fojuth, Marie-Theres; Krull, Nora

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“…This concept of offering tourist routes in Norway had since 1850 been professionalized by the travel bureau of the Englishman Thomas Bennett. 55 The German guidebooks also paid attention to certain Norwegian roads, 'cleverly laid out' within a challenging topography. 56 Common for these roads was their winding way through mountainous regions, along steep slopes and wide views, all of them ending in a fjord.…”

Section: Early Automobile Routesmentioning

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“…9 Infrastructure, travelling, and perception of landscapes have always been closely intertwined. 10 While the railway journey revolutionized time, space, and landscape in the nineteenth century, the windscreen has redefined how we experience the world in the twentieth century. 11 Several studies have observed how, particularly in North America, the car has redesigned the idea of nature and wilderness.…”

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Northwards: How Norway became a destination for German car tourism, 1920s–1960s

Fojuth

2021

Scandinavian Journal of History

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The article traces the beginnings of the powerful liaison between automobile technology, tourism, and the 'Land of the Fjords'. Focusing on the German automobile club ADAC in the period 1920s to 1960s, the article examines how German motorists discovered and embraced Norwegian roads, and what idea of the 'Norway experience' was constructed along the way. Tourists, it is argued, were primed for car travel through the narratives of contrasting vistas and sublime nature stemming from the time Norway was experienced by cruise and cariole. During the German occupation of Norway 1940-1945, narratives and pictures of Norwegian landscapes were spread among Germans as never before; now combined with narratives of heroism, conquest, and technology. In the 1950s, when West Germany was experiencing the onset of mass tourism and mass motorization, the concept of the extraordinary car trip on Norway's roads was ready to be widely communicated and put into praxis. Postwar 'Grand Tours on wheels' to Scandinavia were both continuing narratives on Northern remoteness and otherness, and 'silencing' historical landscapes of war. By the mid-1960s, Norway had been established as a superb car travellers' destination, a sanctuary of nature just accessible by a car.

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Section: Early Automobile Routesmentioning

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Northwards: How Norway became a destination for German car tourism, 1920s–1960s

Fojuth

2021

Scandinavian Journal of History

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Mapped railway dreams, geographical knowledge and the Norwegian Parliament, 1845–1908

Fojuth

2020

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography

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History of cartography of the Nordic countries II

Jones

2021

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography

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This issue of Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift-Norwegian Journal of Geography is the second special issue of the journal on the history of cartography of the Nordic countries. The first was published in Volume 74(4), September 2020. Further articles will be published in a later issue of the journal. These special issues take up a topic that characterized the journal from the 1930s to the 1960s, during which period several articles on the history of cartography in Norway were published. Prominent among these was Kristian Nissen's series of five articles titled 'Bidrag til Norges karthistorie' ('Contributions to Norway's map history') (K. Nissen 1938; 1939; 1943; 1957; 1963a). The current special issues of the journal can be regarded as a reawakening of Kristian Nissen's legacy. Kristian Nissen (1879-1968), a polymath, was reindeer inspector, historian, ethnographer, geographer, and became Norway's leading historian of cartography.

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Herrschaft über Land und Schnee

Cited by 5 publications

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Northwards: How Norway became a destination for German car tourism, 1920s–1960s

Northwards: How Norway became a destination for German car tourism, 1920s–1960s

Mapped railway dreams, geographical knowledge and the Norwegian Parliament, 1845–1908

History of cartography of the Nordic countries II

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