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| Keywords: City of Drontheim (JW Edy plate 72).jpg Artwork Creator John William Edy Drontheim No LXXII CITY OF DRONTHEIM This ancient and venerable city has for centuries been the Capital of Norway It is large and since the great fire in the year 1770 which consumed the greater part it has arisen out of its ruins with better houses and more spacious streets It is built on a plain surrounded by hills and water at the head of an extensive bay Being in such a high northern latitude it suffers severely by cold winds and frosts in the inclement winters The harbour is very spacious and possesses excellent anchorage and tolerable shelter for ships; it is well defended by a strong castle built on a rock in its centre called Munkholm and another in the town seen beyond the ships at anchor The town on the land side is also strongly fortified and defended by an impregnable fortress seen on the top of the hill beyond the city called Christiansteen which is always kept well garrisoned with troops and supplied with provisions and stores to guard against surprise and sustain a long siege of which history records many instances during the reigns of the former kings of Norway who resided here Drontheim is the see of a bishop ; and the great dom kirker or cathedral church is an admirable specimen of Saxon Gothic architecture with a massive tower and high-pointed roof It is very lofty and spacious and nchly decorated within Here the ceremonies of coronation were performed and the regalia kept In the vaults are the remains of a long race of kings queens princes nobles and bishops; and in the church are many ancient tombs and inscriptions to their memory and also to that of many other eminent natives of Drontheim who did honour to their age The church is situated nearly in the centre of the town and has a curious light dome at the east end The next church on the left with a square tower is called frue kirker i e lady church By the water side are ranges of spacious warehouses with wharfs and landing-places between In the street are public fountains of indifferent water Drontheim being the great depot of the north a considerable trade is carried on there; vast quantities of copper brought from the mines of Rocraas and Mehldahlen one species of which is black are annually exported Timber in deals spars and ufers seem plentiful in the yards Particular attention is paid to fishing and great pains are taken in curing and extracting oil There is also a sugar-work ; and the people are famous for making a small delicious brown cheese well known among men of taste Drontheim may justly boast of its royal society museum library collections of minerals fossils and shells its learned professors opulent inhabitants and numerous charitable institutions and per manent endowments for the aged and the orphan to a greater extent than any city in that once flourishing kingdom The most recent transaction of Royalty in Drontheim was performed by Bernadotte on the cession of Norway to Sweden The considerable river Nea after passing through a lake falls into the harbour among the mountains near its source one of which is 3139 feet in perpendicular height An army of 7000 Swedes were frozen to death here in February 1716 At a place two miles from Drontheim vast quantities of Eider down are collected The great road from Christiania extends to this city Collapse bottom http //urn nb no/URN NBN no-nb_digibok_2011072910001 Boydell's picturesque scenery of Norway London 1820 Plate no 72 p 361 in scanned copy no-nb_digibok_2011072910001 PD-Art-100 John William Edy Boydell's picturesque scenery of Norway Trondheim in art | ||||
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