Hyggen is a small settlement on the Drammensfjord, about 14 km from Drammen. Around 750 people live here.
The name sounds like it should be related to "hygge", the Scandinavian concept of cosiness, but it is not. It comes from the Old Norse word heggr, meaning bird cherry tree. The place was originally called Heggvin, possibly after a stream called Heggja. Over the centuries, the spelling shifted: Heggenni in 1400, Hegien in 1512, Heggind in 1617, and finally Hyggen by 1723.
The village was known for its granite quarry. The stone type is called Røyken granite, and it was quarried and cut at Hyggen for use across the region. When the quarry closed, the village returned to what the surrounding hills do best: growing fruit.
Today Hyggen is perhaps best known for its apple juice. Hyggen Gård is a sixth-generation fruit farm with over 20,000 apple trees, growing varieties like Aroma, Summerred, Rød-Gravenstein, Discovery, and Asfari. Their apple juice, Hyggen Eplemost, is pressed from hand-picked apples from the farm's own orchard and has won silver and bronze multiple years running in Norway's Best Apple Juice competition. You will find it in shops across the country.
There is a marina and a beach, and the village sits along the road that connects the southern tip of the Hurum peninsula back to Drammen via the Drammensfjord's western shore.
The name sounds like it should be related to "hygge", the Scandinavian concept of cosiness, but it is not. It comes from the Old Norse word heggr, meaning bird cherry tree. The place was originally called Heggvin, possibly after a stream called Heggja. Over the centuries, the spelling shifted: Heggenni in 1400, Hegien in 1512, Heggind in 1617, and finally Hyggen by 1723.
The village was known for its granite quarry. The stone type is called Røyken granite, and it was quarried and cut at Hyggen for use across the region. When the quarry closed, the village returned to what the surrounding hills do best: growing fruit.
Today Hyggen is perhaps best known for its apple juice. Hyggen Gård is a sixth-generation fruit farm with over 20,000 apple trees, growing varieties like Aroma, Summerred, Rød-Gravenstein, Discovery, and Asfari. Their apple juice, Hyggen Eplemost, is pressed from hand-picked apples from the farm's own orchard and has won silver and bronze multiple years running in Norway's Best Apple Juice competition. You will find it in shops across the country.
There is a marina and a beach, and the village sits along the road that connects the southern tip of the Hurum peninsula back to Drammen via the Drammensfjord's western shore.