Every design for Steinkjer

Are you from Sørsia or Nordsia? In Steinkjer that question still means something, because the river Steinkjerelva cuts the town in two on its way into the innermost end of the Trondheimsfjorden, and the two old neighbourhoods have kept their names on either bank.

Ask people what Steinkjer feels like and many will mention the everyday: the trains of the Nordlandsbanen stopping on their way between Trondheim and Bodø, the E6 running right through, a busy shopping centre for a wide farming district, and the offices that make it the seat of Trøndelag county. Then come the yearly fixtures – Steinkjermartnan, Steinkjerfestivalen, Risrock and the Hilmarfestivalen – and at Egge, with Egge museum and a Viking festival that returns every second year. On a warm day the Bystranda fills up; on a grey one, the walk past Dampsaga and Holmen does the job.

If you grew up among the hills that ring the town like a horseshoe, you know every corner of this map. Take it with you wherever you are.