The town of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur is celebrating its 110th anniversary this year.
\nand will therefore be celebrated with various events in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur now over
\nthe May Day weekend. The anniversary is on 1 June, but on that day 110 years ago
\nWhen Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur was granted borough status, the first election was also held.
\nheld at the Good Templar Hall.<\/p>\n
On 1 June 1909, 1,469 people lived in the town and 109 children were in
\nenrolled in the town's primary school. Two police officers were hired who were \u201ehellmen'
\n\u201cThe uniforms drew a lot of attention for their robustness,\" the statement says.
\nfrom the City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. Today, 29,606 residents live in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur and all of them
\nEveryone is invited to celebrate at the harbour and in the centre of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur this weekend. <\/p>\n
There will be a host of events in town this weekend.
\nbut many of them give a good account of the town's history. Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Folk Museum
\nhas set up the photography exhibition \u201eHafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur from Sovereignty to the Republic\u201c
\nbut there is a photography exhibition on Strandst\u00edgnum. The exhibition features 50 photographs which are
\ndescriptive of the town's character and life in the town at that time. In the Packhouse,
\nAt 6 Vesturgata is the exhibition \u201eThat's How It Was...\u201c, which tells the story of the fishing village.
\nThe history of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur is traced from the settlement period to the present day.<\/p>\n
Then there will be an exhibition of proposals in an open competition for ideas about
\nFuture planning for Flensburg Harbour and the \u00d8-area in Hafnarborg Hall
\nOver the Seaman's Day weekend, open 12:00-17:00.<\/p>\n
But then there's a hell of a programme all weekend that you can The aerial photograph was taken by Gudmundur Fylkisson.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The beginning of settlement and Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur was in the settlement of \u00c1sbj\u00f6rn Asgr\u00edmsson., Due to the naturally favourable harbour conditions, Around 1468, the Germans began Hanse merchants<\/a> navigation By the middle of the century, the Danish kings were still trying to prevent During the first half of the monopoly period, Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur In 1794, bought Bjarni S\u00edvertsen<\/a> Warehouse From 1787 to 1908, most merchants in <\/p>\n Municipal rightschange<\/a> <\/p>\n Originally, Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur was part of \u00c1lftaneshreppi<\/a>. Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur then had In 1878, a parish council meeting was held in An attempt was made again to get Municipal rights<\/a> the year The matter was next raised in 1903. In March of that year It was therefore brought about that a bill on town privileges Hafnarfjar\u00f0arkaupsta\u00f0ur fagnar \u00e1 110 \u00e1ra afm\u00e6li sitt \u00e1 \u00feessu \u00e1ri og ver\u00f0ur \u00fev\u00ed fagna\u00f0 me\u00f0 \u00fdmiskonar vi\u00f0bur\u00f0ahaldi \u00ed Hafnarfir\u00f0i n\u00fana yfir sj\u00f3mannadagshelgina. Afm\u00e6lisdagurinn er 1. j\u00fan\u00ed en \u00e1 \u00feeim degi fyrir 110 \u00e1rum f\u00e9kk Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur kaupsta\u00f0ar\u00e9ttindi, \u00fe\u00e1 var einnig fyrsti kj\u00f6rfundurinn haldinn \u00ed G\u00f3\u00f0templarah\u00fasinu. \u00deann 1. j\u00fan\u00ed 1909 bjuggu 1469 manns \u00ed b\u00e6num og 109 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13584"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nto look here https:\/\/www.hafnarfjordur.is\/mannlif\/vidburdir\/vidburdir-framundan\/sjomannadagurinn-2018<\/a><\/p>\n
\nShopping in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur <\/p>\n
\nson of Ing\u00f3lfur Arnarson's brother. Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur is first mentioned in Hauksb\u00f3k. The Settlement of Iceland<\/a>,
\nwhich tells of the departure Hrafna-Fl\u00f3ki<\/a> and his fellow travellers
\nfrom Iceland. From the beginning of the settlement of Iceland until the beginning of the 15th century, comes
\nThe place otherwise features little to nothing.<\/p>\n
\nHafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, one of the country's main trading and fishing ports, from and including
\nat the beginning of the 15th century, as crawling took over from matter<\/a> which
\nIceland's most sought-after export. At the beginning of the 15th century, the English began
\nfishing and trade with Iceland. In 1413 the first English merchant ship arrived at
\nland of which legends are told at Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. The Icelanders took the English merchants
\nWell, but King Canute tried to prevent the English from trading with Iceland.
\nand that is why there were often clashes between the English and the envoys of the King of Denmark.
\nAs the years went by, the English became less well-liked because
\naggression. They also tended to steal seal from the Icelanders.<\/p>\n
\nto Iceland from Bergen in Norway. For the next two decades, there was fierce competition between
\nof the English and Hanseatic merchants, who often got into fights and brawls. German
\nThe merchants prevailed in the end. They could offer cheaper and a wider variety.
\ngoods than the English. In the latter half of the 15th century, Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur
\nHas become the main port for the people of Hamburg in Iceland.<\/p>\n
\nto sell the German shop in Iceland and hand the business over to the Danes
\nmerchants. In 1602, gave Christian IV.
\nKing of Denmark<\/a> to issue a directive on Monopoly trading<\/a> and so it came to an end
\nTrade agreement between Iceland and Germany.<\/p>\n
\nThe main trading post in Iceland. From 1602-1774, the trade was in Danish hands.
\nof merchants and trading companies, but in 1774 the king took over the trade.
\nIn 1787, the assets of the King's Company were sold to its employees. Then
\nA rudimentary form of competition in retail emerged when itinerant traders began to
\ncompete with the successors to the King's Company. However, nothing more came of this
\ncompetition, in which the Danish merchants had the upper hand. In 1795, they complained
\nThe farmers blamed the Danish merchants for the high price of imported goods and demanded
\nthat trade would be made completely free.<\/p>\n
\nof the Royal Company. He soon became a prominent merchant and
\na shipowner. He bought old farms in the land of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur and established
\nshipyard. Bjarni became one of the first Icelanders to receive
\ntrading licences after the Danish monopoly trade was abolished. Due to the scale
\nHe has often been called the father of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur.<\/p>\n
\nDanes in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. There was one Norwegian merchant there, Hans Wingaard Friis from
\nHe was born in \u00c5lasund, Norway, and settled in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. At the beginning of the twentieth century
\nHowever, the number of Icelandic merchants began to increase, while the number of Danish ones began to decrease.
\nin the same mood. <\/sup><\/p>\n
\na distinctiveness compared to other places in the parish, in that its main industry was
\nfisheries, but not agriculture. Because of this particularity, there was a will to that
\nto make Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur a separate municipality, and the idea first came up
\nofficially in 1876.<\/p>\n
\n\u00c1lftaneshreppi, where it was agreed to divide the parish into three:
\n\u00c1lftaneshrepp, Gar\u00f0ahreppur<\/a> and Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. If that did not work, it was decided that
\nthe parish would be divided into two: Bessasta\u00f0ir parish<\/a> and Gar\u00f0ahrepp. The second proposal
\nwas approved and Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur therefore became part of Gar\u00f0ahreppi.<\/p>\n
\n1890. At a meeting of the Gar\u00f0ahreppur parish council in June of that year, a committee was elected to
\nto discuss the borough rights of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. The committee held a meeting on 27 February 1891,
\nwhere a vote was held on the division of the parish, but the majority of those present were
\nopposed to the division. The matter was therefore dropped and it remained so for the next
\nyears because of difficult times in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur.<\/p>\n
\nsome residents of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur caused bill<\/a> was
\nsubmitted on Althingi<\/a> to the Act on the borough rights of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. In
\nThe bill, among other things, provided that the bailiff of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur would be
\nalong with the mayor and his salary being paid from the national treasury. The bill was
\ndefeated in a vote in the Althing. It was reintroduced to the Althing in 1905,
\nbut again defeated in a vote. However, the Althingi passed bills which
\ngranted the burghs greater self-government than before, but they did not go far enough to
\nThe people of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur would be pleased.<\/p>\n
\nThe harbour of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur was laid before the Althingi, now in the year 1907. Among the changes from the previous year
\nThe bill provided that the mayor would now be paid.
\npayments from the municipal treasury and not the national treasury. This bill was passed as law<\/a> No. 75, 22nd.
\nNovember 1907 and the law came into force 1st June<\/a> 1908<\/a>. Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur became
\nthus becoming the fifth municipality in Iceland to receive borough status.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"