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Memorial stone for British war graves at Eivindvik

People and Society
Plakett / Plaque
Published: 16.07.2001
Author: Hermund Kleppa
On the churchyard at Eivindvik there is a small low stone with a text plaque. It was raised in remembrance of 16 British naval soldiers who lost their...

Memorial stone for - Niels Griis Alstrup Dahl

People and Society
Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
"Bread of stone and spirit of 'Striile' (local people), Dahl forced at Eivindvik". These are the frequently quoted words by Henrik Wergeland about the...

Memorial stone at Eivindvik for bailiff Bredvik

People and Society
Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Augustin Bredvik (1868-1952) was bailiff in Gulen for more than 40 years. "One of the pillars of western Norway" as the newspaper Firda put it in an o...

Memorial stone for war victims at Eivindvik

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
The municipality of Gulen has four memorial stones for war victims from the Second World War. One stands at Byrknesøy, one on the churchyard at Mjøm...

Memorial stone for soldier Halvard Trædal

People and Society
Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Halvard Benjamin Trædal from Indre Oppedal lost his life in action in Valdres on 26 April 1940. He was first buried in Valdres, but his remains were...

Memorial stone for Konrad Byrknes at Mjømna church

People and Society
Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person
Published: 10.06.2001
Author: Hermund Kleppa
After the mobilization on 9 April 1940, men from the whole county of Sogn og Fjordane mustered at Bømoen at Voss. From 19 April, some 2000 men were tr...

Brekke church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Margrethe Henden Aaraas Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Brekke church is a longchurch built in wood, located in the village of Brekke on the Risnesfjord in the municipality of Gulen. The church has a seat...

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...

Byrknesøy chapel

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Bedehus / Chapel
Published: 27.11.2002
Author: Margrethe Henden Aaraas Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Byrknesøy chapel was originally a "bedehus" (a lay evangelical house) located in the extreme western part of the municipality of Gulen. The chapel, ...

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

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

Memorial stone for war victims at Byrknesøy

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 14.02.2002
Author: Hermund Kleppa
By the school at Byrknesøy stands a memorial for eight men who lost their lives during the Second World War. They were all from Mjømna "sokn" (sub-p...

Memorial stone for Ivar and Andrine Svardal

People and Society
Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person
Published: 13.10.2006
Author: Hermund Kleppa
In the summer of 1956, the temperance people in the municipalities of Brekke and Gulen met at Rutledal. There was a special solemn atmosphere that day...

Memorial stone for Edvin Færøy

People and Society
Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person
Published: 13.10.2006
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Edvin Færøy lost his life in action in Valdres on 20 April 1940. He was first buried in Valdres but was later moved home and buried on the churchyard ...

War remnants at Rutledal

People and Society
Krigsplass / War site
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Kjell-Ragnar Berge
As early as in May 1940, the Germans came to Rutledal and built a land-based facility for launching torpedoes. Later on they started building a coasta...

1905 - Gulen municipality

Unionen oppløses 1905
Unionsoppløysing / Union resolution
Published: 29.11.2004
Author: Karianne Schmidt Vindenes
In 1905, Norway became a completely free and independent country. The union with Sweden was dissolved by the Norwegian Storting's resolution of 7 June...