The Herman Wildenveys street

This is Herman Wildenveys street, where William Wisting lives. It is a quiet residential area in the center of Stavern, and in the extension of Herman Wildenveys street, you will find the property "Hergisheim". This was the home of the poet Herman Wildenvey. Hergisheim is easy to recognize by its characteristic blue roof, and you can see it when you drive to and from Stavern along the Larviksroad. William Wisting lives at number 7, but as you may notice, there is no number 7 - the street starts at house number 9! A small trick by the author to distinguish between fiction and reality. In the Wisting book "The Caveman" we read: "Viggo Hansen had lived in the curve three houses away and had been dead for four months without Wisting himself or any of the other neighbours worrying." When you stand in Herman Wildenveys street and look south, you will quickly see Stavern's highest point, "Signalfjellet" ("The signal mountain"). If you go up there, you will see Stavern's finest viewpoint, 75 meters above sea level. And here you will also find an optical telegraph, a "Captain Ohlsen model" - which was used as part of the military warning system in the area from the early Napoleonic wars until 1814.