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Exciting history in a closed-down school building

Skule / School
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Gaute Losnegård
The closed-down school building at Holevik at Staveneset has been changed into a museum where the main theme is World War II. ...

Askvoll nursing home

Sjukehus / Hospital
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Gaute Losnegård
At Ask in Askvoll municipality, the county of Sogn og Fjordane for more than 40 years provided a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients. Tuberculosi...

Askvoll during the Viking Period

Slag / Battle
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Gaute Losnegård
Askvoll is centrally located on the sea lane, and in the surrounding area several sea battles were fought during the Viking Period. The Norse saga lit...

Father and son Bakke - prominent liberals from Holmedal

Person / Person
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Gaute Losnegård
During the second half of the 1800s, there was a large-scale rise in Norwegian national culture and intellectual life, and at the head were the "rad...

The rock carvings at the point of Staveneset in Askvoll

Historisk plass / Historical site
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Gaute Losnegård
On the weather-exposed Staveneset, one of the westernmost points on mainland Norway, we find ancient traces of human activities. ...

The great transformation in Stongfjorden

Fabrikk / Factory
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Gaute Losnegård
Stongfjorden was one of the first industrial sites in Norway, and its aluminium plant was the first in Scandinavia....

Trollefos Uldvarefabrik

Fabrikk / Factory
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Gaute Losnegård
For more than thirty years the Trollefossen waterfall on the farm of Engjabøen at Holmedal provided the woollen mill by the same name with electric ...

The Kinna church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Harald J. Stavang
The Kinna church is built in stone, probably some time in the 12th century. It is the oldest and the only one of its kind in the region of Sunnfjord, ...

The Ytterøyane lighthouse

Fyrlykt / Lighthouse
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Harald J. Stavang
The Ytterøyane lighthouse, the biggest in Sunnfjord, was built in 1881, and has withstood hurricanes and airplane attacks. This lighthouse is one of...

The Stabben lighthouse

Fyrlykt / Lighthouse
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Harald J. Stavang
In 1866/87, a sturdy lighthouse with a solid reinforced stone and mortar foundation was built on a slippery, rounded-off skerry in the middle of the...

The Kvannhovden lighthouse

Fyrlykt / Lighthouse
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Harald J. Stavang
In 1895, a lighthouse was built at Kvannhovden, and it became operational on 5 November the same year. It had a common wick lamp, and only in 1932, ...

The Bakkejekta sloop

Communications
Båt / Boat Hamn / Port Handel / Trade
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Gaute Losnegård
To commemorate a time when all transport of goods between the Dalsfjorden and Bergen went by sea on vessels powered by the wind, the Bakkejekta sloop ...

Askrova "bedehus" chapel

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Bedehus / Chapel
Published: 14.12.2000
Author: Harald J. Stavang
Askrova "bedehus" chapel was consecrated by bishop Ragnvald Indrebø on 14 April, 1957. However, the planning was started much earlier, actually as far...

The families Landmark and Lillingston at Tysse

Gardsbruk / Farm
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Gaute Losnegård
Throughout a period of nearly two centuries the farm of Tysse was the property of the upper middle-class families of Landmark and Lillingston....

The private graveyard of Fredensborg

Gravplass / Cementery
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Gaute Losnegård
Fredensborg is situated in a beautiful park close to a small lake, about half-an-hour's walk from the Lillingston residence. This used to be the priva...

The county quay and the house called Haffen

Kai / Quay
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Harald J. Stavang
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The point of Stakaldeneset

Historisk plass / Historical site
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Harald J. Stavang
Stakaldeneset is a barren and west-facing point that rises steeply from the Eikefjord at the strait of Helgøysundet. In the late 1970s, Svein Brands...

The statue of the Sars brothers

Monument / Monument
Published: 06.06.2001
Author: Harald J. Stavang
At the centenary of the city of Florø on 16 May 1960, a double bust of the brothers Johan Ernst and Georg Ossian Sars was unveiled. The bust stands ...

The canal through the strip of land called Florø-eidet

Communications
Kanal / Canal
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Harald J. Stavang
Before the city of Florø was established in 1860, the trade at Florelandet was located in the bay of Gaddevågen and at Eidet. In 1872/73, a canal wa...

The Thor Solberg statue

Monument / Monument
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Harald J. Stavang
At Florø Lufthamn (Airport) there is a statue of a stocky man in his forties. The man looks towards the sky, and he is about to fulfil the dream of hi...