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Kråkenes lighthouse

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Fyrlykt / Lighthouse

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Gunnar Urtegaard

In 1906, a lighthouse station was built at Kråkenes under pressure from the Kristiansund Skipper Association. The lighthouse is located to the west of...

Boat-landing facilities at Kråkenes

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Gunnar Urtegaard

The people of Kråkenes have always been faced with bad landing sites. There were five known sites: Storehola, Keila, Stiksvika, Bleke and Synstestøa...

The old Kvalheim road

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Gunnar Urtegaard

The village of Kvalheim has the ocean as its next-door neighbour and the landing conditions have always proved difficult in bad weather. There was a s...

The old road between Rimstad and Berstad

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Gunnar Urtegaard

Between the farms of Rimstad and Berstad there used to be an old road, used by pilgrims, postmen and local people alike. There are still many traces o...

The pilots on the island of Silda

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Gunnar Urtegaard

In former times pilots lived on the island of Silda. The northern harbour was a "waiting harbour" for ships heading north past Stad. In bad weather ...

The stone walls at Kvalheim

Steingjerde / Stone fence

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Gunnar Urtegaard

The village of Kvalheim is situated north of the bay of Kvalheimsvika on the western shoreline of the island of Vågsøya. In 1900, 188 persons lived th...

The stone house at Åsnes

Gardshus / Farm house

Published: 19.02.2001

Author: Gunnar Urtegaard

At Åsnes between Bryggja and Lefdal there is a two-storey house with stonewalls all the way up to the roof ridge. Malvin J. Aasnes used to own the f...

The fire at Refvika in 1872

Published: 21.02.2001

Author: Gunnar Urtegaard

The village of Refvika is located between the beach of Refviksanden to the northwest and the lake of Refvikvatnet to the southeast. Up until 1872, a...

Road and ferry between Byrknesøy and the mainland

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

The road connection between the islands of Mjømna and Byrknesøy was officially opened on 13 September 1997. This was 40 years after the county governo...

The road connection Værlandet-Bulandet

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

The archipelago of Værlandet - Bulandet consists of the area to the west of the Aldefjord. In 1981, Askvoll municipality forwarded a suggestion for a ...

Road building in Solund - scramble for state road

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

Funds for new public roads were in the 1930s mainly allocated to interior regions and to linking roads. The need for roads in the county of Sogn og Fj...

The main road at Bremangerlandet

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

A continuous road connection along the Bremangerlandet with ferry across to Måløy came in 1949. In 1977, the island of Frøya was connected to the high...

Road between Villevika in Flora and Midtgulen in Bremanger

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

The farms on the mainland between Florø and Midtgulen had to wait for a long time before they got any road. Up until 1993, people in this area did not...

The road along the fjord between Naustdal and Eikefjord

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

The public road between Naustdal-Vevring-Stavang-Eikefjord was completed section by section, and not without discussions. The road between Stavang and...

"Folkelånsvegen" (the people's loan road) - in the connection Askvoll-Førde

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

State road 609 connects the Askvoll peninsula with Førde through Stongfjorden without ferry. The 16-kilometre-long section from Øygard in Førde to Sel...

Late road connection to the outside world for the industrial town of Svelgen

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

It was the development of hydroelectric power that created the industrial growth in Svelgen from 1914. However, it took a long before any road constru...

The ferries on the Dalsfjord

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

Long before the heated debates about a bridge across the Dalsfjord, there was conflict about roads across and around the Dalsfjord. The roads had to w...

The road Oppedal-Instefjord - an important part of the main road network

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

The road construction between Instefjord and Oppedal was an important link in the so-called Coastal Highway between Stavanger, Bergen and Ålesund, the...

Yellow central road stripe between the two Sunnfjord cities

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

In the summer of 2005, the Minister for Transport Torild Skogsholm opened the section Storebru-Knapstad on highway (RV) 5 between Førde and Florø. Thi...

Road between Askvoll and Stongfjorden

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

Stongfjorden was one of the first industrial villages in the county of Sogn og Fjordane, with the first aluminium plant in Scandinavia. The industrial...

Mannseidet - royal road and national cultural site

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

In former days travelling along the Norwegian coast took mostly place on sea. The old roads across the strips of land called Mannseidet and Dragseidet...

The "Trondhjemske" postal road in Gulen

Published: 26.09.2005

Author: Kristin Ese

The postal road in Gulen was formerly a part of the "Trondhjemske" postal road. In 1868, the road was no longer used as a postal road as the post was ...

The Royal Postal Road Bleiklindi - Styvi in the Nærøyfjord

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

The present main road between Oslo and Bergen follows more or less the same route as the old postal roads did. However, from Lærdal it no longer follo...

The Inner Sogn Automobile Company 1916-1933 - Car services in the inner Sogn area

Billag / Bus company

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

In 1916, the first company was established for car services in the municipalities of Sogndal, Hafslo, Luster and Jostedalen. At first the car services...

Road from Florø

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

Florø was founded in 1859, and was for close to 150 years the only city in the county of Sogn og Fjordane. What was highly unusual was the fact that t...

Opposition to the Flåm Railway

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

When the Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget) in 1883 decided that the line for the Bergen Railway would go by way of Myrdal and Finse, the county counci...

Totland - Måløy - "a highly suitable road"

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

Totland-Deknepollen was the last remaining distance before there was a continuous road between Måløy and Oppland across the mountain pass of Strynefje...

The Flåm Railway - built 1923-1940

Jarnbane / Railway

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

On 10 July 1908, the Norwegian Parliament - Stortinget - decided to build a railway line between Myrdal and Flåm. The work was not begun until 1923, a...

The Kråkenesveg road in Vågsøy

Published: 11.07.2006

Author: Kristin Ese

Far to the west towards the ocean lies the hamlet of Kråkenes. A cart road to this place was built in the 1940s. The road could hardly be used in the ...

The first ferry connection in western Sogn

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

One of the most important road and ferry connections today with a high volume of traffic is the connection between Lavik and Oppedal in western Sogn. ...

The Loftesnes bridge in Sogndal

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

The Loftesnes bridge was the first bridge and road project in the county to be financed by toll money. The bridge was completed in 1958. In a 20-year ...

From riding path to road - between Kaupanger and Sogndal

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

Kaupanger has always been an important historical place in Sogn. There is a reference to the place in the saga literature and it has been used as a ma...

The bailiff's estate at Askelund

Bolig / Residence

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Gunnar Urtegaard

About one kilometre from Balestrand towards Kvamsøy we find a beautiful building by the fjord. This is the old Bailiff residence - called Futegarden -...

The artist Hans Dahl

Person / Person

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Gunnar Urtegaard

Hans Dahl from Granvin in Hardanger, built a summer resort in Balestrand in 1893. From 1919 he lived in Balestrand all year round. Dahl painted the sp...

Villa Lorna

Bolig / Residence

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Gunnar Urtegaard

Villa Lorna is the only "Swiss" villa in Balestrand, which is built above the main road. However, the fjord is only a short distance away and the view...

The Artist Eilert Adelsteen Normann

Bolig / Residence

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Gunnar Urtegaard

Eilert Adelsteen Normann (1848-1918) was going to be a merchant like his father, but ended up in Düsseldorf as an artist. He stayed in Germany for the...

Gertrude Abbott

Bolig / Residence

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Gunnar Urtegaard

Gertrude Abbott (1866 - 1951) came from Philadelphia, USA. When she came to Norway and Balestrand, she fell in love with the place. She returned every...

Rystestøylen mountain farm

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Støl / Mountain farm

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Gunnar Urtegaard

Rystestøylen is an old mountain farm for the farms at Raudeberg. There could be as many as 40 cows there in the summer. Girls from the farms took care...

The scenes in the village hall Bygdetun

Måleri / Painting

Published: 21.02.2001

Author: Gunnar Urtegaard

When the old Bygdetun village hall was opened at Bryggja in 1935, people could also admire the beautiful scenes painted by the Nordfjord artist Erli...

The struggle for bridge across the Dalsfjord

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

The Dalsfjord bridge has been the most hotly debated communications project in the county and has led to bitter political controversy. The start was t...

The Måløy Bridge - Norway's longest bridge in 1974

Published: 02.09.2005

Author: Kristin Ese

The Måløy Bridge was officially opened for traffic in the summer of 1974. The bridge project was realized by means of a strong local involvement and i...

Mountain farming in the valley of Skogadalen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Støl / Mountain farm

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Gunnar Urtegaard

Until the 1920s, the villages of Allmenningen and Eldevika had a common mountain farm in Skogadalen in the former municipality of Davik. In the 1920s,...

The road through the Flåmsdalen valley - construction road and tourist road

Livelihood and Craftsmanship

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

In 1893, the Norwegian Parliament - Stortinget - decided that the Oslo-Bergen railway line would go by way of Voss and Myrdal. The construction of the...

1905 - The municipality of Selje

Unionen oppløses 1905

Unionsoppløysing / Union resolution

Published: 29.11.2004

Author: Gunnar Urtegaard

In 1905, Norway became a free and independent country. The union with Sweden was dissolved by the Storting¿s parliamentary resolution on 7 June. This ...

1905 - Vågsøy municipality

Unionen oppløses 1905

Unionsoppløysing / Union resolution

Published: 16.03.2005

Author: Gunnar Urtegaard

In 1905, Norway became a completely free and independent country. The union with Sweden was dissolved by a parliamentary resolution of the Norwegian S...