The cradle of the Orkla Group was here at the Løkken Works, and the Group continues to contribute towards maintaining the cultural heritage embodied by the guest residence, the Thamshavn railway and the former mines.
Restaurant-quality meals are served in the venerable banqueting hall.
Today, the building is a guest residence, hospitality centre and course and conference centre for the Orkla Group. However, the walls still reflect the manor’s past grandeur. The guest residence has 25 rooms with a total of 45 beds.
The exterior of the Guest Residence.
Meals are served in the residence’s banqueting hall, which features paintings by Bernhard Folkestad. The conference centre has recently been refurnished with state-of-the art equipment. Just next door lies the Orkla Industrial Museum. The information centre offers exhibits of mining operations and the Thamshavn railway, which ends here.
Railway coaches dating back to 1908 are still in operation, and visitors can take a ride in the Thamshavn railway’s Royal Coach. It is almost 100 years old, but still in good working order. The railway also has a restaurant coach, where passengers can enjoy a tasty lunch while watching the countryside of central Norway slowly glide past.
Just up the hill behind the guest residence, within walking distance, lies the Old Mine, “the Cathedral of Drudgery and Toil”. Here guests are told the story of the old miners’ toil to earn their daily bread. Inside the mine, in the Fagerli Room, they may be served lunch or enjoy a short concert .
And if all these activities should not suffice, fishing for salmon in the Orkla River may be tempting. Orkla salmon are not exactly easy to fool, but some of the guests at the residence have in fact had better luck than the fish.
The cradle of the Orkla Group was here at the Løkken Works, and the Group continues to contribute towards maintaining the cultural heritage embodied by the guest residence, the Thamshavn railway and the former mines.
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Orkla Industrial museum