Vestfossen is a village in the municipality of Øvre Eiker, in the county of Buskerud, Norway.HistoryVestfossen is a former industrial town with traditions dating back to the 16th century. At that time, the manor house known as Fossesholm became the center of a land collecting effort for the purpose of creating a large-scale sawmill industry. Later, other types of industry emerged. The most influential among them were the textile factory of Fredfos Uldvarefabrik and the Vestfossen Cellulose, a former paper company founded in 1886 as a pulp mill, which declared bankrupt in 1967.An industrial crisis which occurred around 1970 lead to the fall of these factories, and large parts of the local industrial infrastructure was unused for a long time. After the year 2000, a cultural effort led to the establishment of several cultural institutions here, most notably the contemporary art gallery of Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium founded by artist Morten Viskum. Vestfossen now calls itself "the capital of culture". As of 2008 Vestfossen had a population of 2,867 according to Statistics Norway.GeographyVestfosselva River runs through Vestfossen, flowing out from the two contiguous lakes Fiskumvannet and Eikern. Vestfosselva is the largest tributary of the Drammenselva. The Vestfossen waterfall is dammed and has a power station. On the lower side of the waterfall, the river continued to Hokksund, where it splits into two rivers, Nøstelva and Loeselva, both of which flow into the Drammenselva.
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