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Memorial stone for Bernt Askevold

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 31.10.2001
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Close to the church at Askvoll there is a three-meter-high memorial stone commemorating Bernt Askevold. Into the back is carved: "Venner paa begge...

Memorial stone for Ola Espedal

People and Society
Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person
Published: 13.07.2001
Author: Hermund Kleppa
People in the county of Sogn og Fjordane have honoured at least seven persons with memorial stones for their achievements in song and music. Two m...

Memorial stone for Sigurd Fossen

People and Society
Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person
Published: 13.07.2001
Author: Hermund Kleppa
People in the county of Sogn og Fjordane have honoured at least seven persons with memorial stones for their achievements in song and music. Two m...

Memorial stone over Christen Jenssøn

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Around 1950, a big slab of stone with an old inscription was found in the Askvoll churchyard. The carved letters CIS matched Christen Jenssøn, vicar...

Memorials for war airmen at Askvoll

People and Society
Plakett / Plaque
Published: 03.12.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
On Midsummer Eve, 23 June 1943, an Allied airplane crashed on the shore near the home of Chester Saltskår at the point of Stavenes. The two Norwegian ...

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 ...

Memorial stone at Holmedal for fallen soldiers in the World War 1939-1945

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Six men from the Holmedal parish (earlier Fjaler municipality, now Askvoll) lost their lives during the World War 1939-1945: three on Norwegian me...

Memorial stone at the farm of Ytre Ålen for fallen soldiers in the war 1940-1945

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
A short distance from the sea at the farm of Ålen in Askvoll, there is a memorial stone for three young boys who lost their lives in the war 1940-...

Memorial stone at Askvoll church for fallen soldiers 1940-1945

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
In the churchyard at Askvoll, there is a memorial stone with 16 names, - all from the municipality of Askvoll, who lost their lives during the war...

Grødalshaug

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid
At the bottom of Vargavågen on Halhjem lies Grødalshaug, a 30 metres high rocky outcrop between the bay and a moist valley cleft. On the south side of...

Lyse Monastery

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Marit Nybø

Lysøen

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Jostein Mæland Stephan Tschudi Madsen
Lysøen, this fairytale castle with its Russian-inspired onion dome on the corner turret, stands as a reminder of the diversity of the period called Hi...

Engevik

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Kåre Engevik
Halfway into the Sævareidfjord lies the officer’s farm Engevik. In the beginning of the 1700s the farm was in part estate of the crown and owned by fa...

Engevikhavn

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Kåre Engevik
The guesthouse activity in Engevik in the 1700s could not have been very extensive. But a hundred years later a trading and guesthouse centre develope...

Holdhus church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anne Marta Hoff
The old church at Holdhus is one of the oldest timbered churches left in the west of Norway. The new church at Eide, built in 1889, replaced the churc...

Øpstad

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Samson L. Øpstad
The post house at Øpstad stands out in the landscape. An ochre yellow house with a loft and a white-painted house in Swiss style with ochre edgings, b...

Holsund

Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Ferstad

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
Ferstad is well worth a visit. The farm lies on a little hillock south of Lekven: a beautiful official residence from the 1700s....

Osøyro

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
The coastal settlement of Os begins to take form in the middle of the 1800s. This is when craftsmen and traders begin to settle at the river delta....

Gåssand

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
The 28th November 1914 was a day to remember for the Os inhabitants. This was the day they could turn the switch on the wall and have electric light i...

Lyse chapel

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Lidén
The small white-painted chapel with the red brick tiled roof just south of the monastery ruins at Lyse was built in 1663 as a local chapel for the mon...

Skjelbreid

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
On the east side of Lake Skjelbreidvatnet, clearly visible along the road from Eikelandsosen, we notice a farm on a terrace above a grassy hill. The h...

Sundvorøya

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Kåre Engevik

Mjånes

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Magnus Mjånes

Sævareid

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Kåre Engevik

Drageid canal

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Kåre Dalland

Hammarsland

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Sigrid H.H.Kaland

Vinnesholmen

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Erik Vangsnes

Selsneset

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Kåre Dalland

Holmefjord

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Knut Andreas Bergsvik
Even though we know of several hundred burial places from the Stone Age in Hordaland, we do not often hit on the Stone Age Man himself. But there are ...

Samnøya

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid

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

Communications
Veg / Road
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...

Kvalesund

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Døso

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid Gerd Bolstad
On the farms Døso and Skeie there has been a burial site with at least 6 burial mounds – probably a burial site for the most powerful men and women of...

Vargavågen

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid Gerd Bolstad Tor Lunde

Os rectory

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Ole Landmark
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
Like so many other communities, Os community has also derived its name from the farm where the parish church was situated. Thus it is that the farm Os...

Ulven camp

People and Society
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Os station

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ralph Wilson Anders Kåre Engevik
On Sunday July 1st 1894 the Nesttun-Os railway was opened. “On the platform Consul Gade wished the railway the best of luck, whereupon the first train...

Søvik

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Jon Søvik

1905 - Askvoll Municipality

People and Society
Unionsoppløysing / Union resolution
Published: 29.11.2004
Author: Hermund Kleppa
In 1905, Norway became a free and independent state. The union with Sweden was dissolved by resolution of the Norwegian Storting (Parliament) on 7 Jun...

Anchor at Værlandet - memorial of shipwreck

People and Society
Ulukke / Accident
Published: 30.11.2005
Author: Hermund Kleppa
In the night of 30 December 1919, the SS "Orm Jarl" ran aground to the west of Alden. Two salvage vessels arrived at the disabled ship, and for some t...

The cannery at Askvoll

Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Sunnfjord Fabrikk / Factory Fiske / Fishing
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Finn Borgen Førsund
When Norway Foods' cannery at Askvoll was closed down in 1992, the production of sardines had gone on for a longer time at Askvoll that at any other p...