{"id":4697,"date":"2017-07-31T10:29:36","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T08:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visiteidsfoss.no\/severdigheter\/skovlhjulet\/"},"modified":"2024-04-18T13:33:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T11:33:41","slug":"skovlhjulet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/visiteidsfoss.no\/en\/severdigheter\/skovlhjulet\/","title":{"rendered":"Steamboat Paddle Wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">This is the paddle wheel from the steamship Ekern. It was built at Bergen Mechanical Workshop in the period between 1850 and 1857. The ships original name was Bygd\u00f8, and it served as a shuttle boat between Christiania (Oslo) and the nearby island Bygd\u00f8y, until she was purchased by Eidsfoss ironworks in 1860. She was baptized Ekhof, after nearby places Eker and Hof but soon renamed. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Ekern trafficked the route between Eidsfoss and Vestfossen until 1914, taking both passengers and cargo. She then served for a few years as a barge, and both the paddle wheel and the steam machine were dismantled. The ship sank at B\u00e5nepina nearby Hakavika power station during a storm in 1917, where she lies today, at 140 meters. It was Ekern that took the prominent guests to the opening of the Tunsberg-Eidsfoss railway in 1901. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">When she came into service in 1903, the steamship Stadshauptmand Schwartz took over most of the passenger traffic on the lake Eikern. Schwartz trafficked the route between Eidsfoss and Vestfossen, until she sank while docked in 1926. The ship is displayed at K\u00f8lab\u00e5nn, where you also find more info about that ships history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the paddle wheel from the steamship Ekern. It was built at Bergen Mechanical Workshop in the period between 1850 and 1857. The ships original name was Bygd\u00f8, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":4343,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"pages\/template-partner-detail.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4697","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visiteidsfoss.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visiteidsfoss.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visiteidsfoss.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visiteidsfoss.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visiteidsfoss.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4697"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/visiteidsfoss.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8236,"href":"https:\/\/visiteidsfoss.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4697\/revisions\/8236"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visiteidsfoss.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visiteidsfoss.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}