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Kvernhusvågen

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

Dale power station

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
In 1923 Bergenshalvøens Kommunale Kraftselskap (BKK) expropriated large areas for power plants and development of hydropower started soon afterwards. ...

Lavik

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Karl Egil Johansen
THE LAYMAN CHIEFTAINS FROM LAVIK...

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...

Filippiner-Lund famous and loved missionary

People and Society
Person / Person
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Hans H. Steinsund
David Olai Lund, better known as Filippiner-Lund, is regarded as one of our greatest missionaries. He saw early where he had to go and prepared very c...

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...

Memorial stone for Jon J. Hop

People and Society
Gravstein / Gravestone Person / Person
Published: 10.01.2001
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Jon J. Hop was the first person from Solund to lose his life in the war 1940-1945. He was a crew member on a vessel on its way to pick up flour at V...

The old schoolhouse at Hardbakke

People and Society
Skulehus / School building
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Hans H. Steinsund
Hardbakke was the second place in Solund which had a schoolhouse. From 1870 onwards, the schoolchildren could climb up the stone steps to a spacious c...

Dale farm

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid
The Dale farm lies well situated on the gravel by the river, below the mountain Beitelen. But a few stone throws further north, on the wide expanse be...

Straume - Salmon

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
From times immemorial salmon and trout have been caught with various tools in the fjord and the streams here. Finds in the Stone Age settlements at Sk...

Stamnes

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid Ågot Gammersvik Øystein Jansen

Gullbrå

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
From written sources we know that the farm Gullbrå was in use early in the 1600s. The Apostolic church in Bergen owned land here that it rented out, b...

Hopland

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Svein Indrelid
The farmhouses at holding No. 15 at Hopland are built together to form a long, continuous building, with dwelling house, hayshed and cowshed built in ...

Kjelstraumen

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Aud Karin Skagen
If you take the sea route north you have several options. The various routes have been dealt with in history, and through the Middle Ages the traffic ...

Krossøy

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Aud Karin Skagen
Furthest north in the island community Rongevær, at the entrance to Fensfjorden, lies Krossøy. Belonging to the farm are the islands of Krossøy, Husøy...

Kræmmerholmen

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
Kræmmerholmen is one of the old privileged trading posts. From the 1600s all trading in West Norway took place in Bergen, and the farmers were obliged...

Water level marks in Solund

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Plakett / Plaque
Published: 19.12.2001
Author: Hans H. Steinsund
Along the entire Norwegian coast, so-called water level marks were chopped into the rock in the 19th century. 123 such marks are known today, and two ...

Clip fish-drying in Solund

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Fiske / Fishing
Published: 19.12.2001
Author: Hans H. Steinsund

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, ...

Road building in Solund - scramble for state road

Communications
Veg / 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 Losna knights - important men in our national history

People and Society
Øy / Island
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Hans H. Steinsund
During the 1300s and the 1400s, Losna was the seat and the base of one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in the country. A good nose for fi...

Hellisøy

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
Hellisøy lighthouse was lit for the first time in 1855. The characteristic red cast-iron tower with two white belts is 33m high and a light height of ...

Vinappen

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
Vinappen lies on a low hill to the very west on the island. Here you have an amazing panorama of the sea. Originally the area was grazing land for cat...

Matrehola

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Knut Andreas Bergsvik
On a large gravel terrace in Matredalen (the Matre valley), a couple of kilometres from the coastal settlement Matre, lies Storseterhilleren, at the e...

Mollandseid

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Aud Karin Skagen
In Mollandsvågen, close by the river that runs from Mollandsvatnet (lake) into the fjord, are two water-powered circular saws and a mill. This small i...

Havrå

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
In the sunny, steep fjord landscape along Sørfjorden on the east side of Osterøy is the farm Havrå. The small “hamlet” is one of the few undisturbed f...

Valestrandsfossen - tanning industry

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Haaland
Valestrand became a centre for the tanning industry in Osterøy; one of the old crafts that has developed into a local industry with many places of wor...

Hamre Church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Lidén
Hamre Church has, by all accounts been one of the four main churches in Horda County in the Middle Ages. Hamre was a main church for the whole of Hord...

Hosanger church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Lidén
On Christmas Day 1795, at 5 a.m., the lightning struck the church in Hosanger. After three hours, the timbered church from the 1600s, which had replac...

Otterstad

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
Tthe Otterstad farms lie in the innermost part of Mofjorden, on the northwest side of the river. The row of stave-built boatsheds that belong to the f...

Nottveit

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
In one of the frame-built haysheds at Nottveit, at holding No. 3, we discover that several of the staves have a medieval look, with large dimensions a...

Stølsheimen

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Dagfinn Moe Aud Karin Skagen Nils Georg Brekke
The large mountain area between Modalen, the Voss communities and Sogn is one of the finest mountain pasture areas in West Norway. In older times this...

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...

1905 - Solund Municipality

People and Society
Unionsoppløysing / Union resolution
Published: 29.11.2004
Author: Kjerstin Risnes
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...

Memorial stone over fallen on Hersvik churchyard

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 25.03.2003
Author: Hans H. Steinsund Hermund Kleppa
On each of the three churchyards in Solund, there is a memorial stone with the names of the 16 from Solund who were victims of the Second World War. T...

Memorial stone over fallen on Solund churchyard at Hardbakke

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 25.03.2003
Author: Hans H. Steinsund Hermund Kleppa
On each of the three churchyards in Solund, there is a memorial stone with the names of the 16 from Solund who were victims of the Second World War. F...

Memorial stone for fallen on Husøy churchyard at Straumen

People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 25.03.2003
Author: Hans H. Steinsund Hermund Kleppa
On each of the three churchyards in Solund, there is a memorial stone with the names of the 16 from Solund who were victims of the Second World War. T...

Førland

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

Sætre

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
THE LONGHOUSE AT SÆTRE ...

Kvalvågen

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
TOFTEGÅRD AT KVALVÅGEN...

Kvalvågstraumen

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
WHALE HUNTING ...

Fedje traffic office

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Frank Johnsen

Trodalen

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

Kjetland

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
On the farm Kjetland there is an old house with a loft – probably from the 1600s or early 1700s. The exterior is not radically different from other ho...

Rambjørg

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid
IRON BARS AT RAMBJØRG ...

Matre - Bjørn West museum

Museums, nature conservation, cultural heritage
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Jonas Risnes Erling Virkesdal
THE BJØRN WEST MUSEUM...

Kringlebotnen

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Jonas Risnes
Close to Hummelfossen (waterfall) there is a narrow path leading up the steep mountainside. The path leads to the farm Kringlebotnen, which lies in th...

Andviki

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

Mjelddalen

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Valestrand

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Jostein Mæland
OLE BULL AND THE FOLK MUSIC ...

Valestrandsfossen - Youth centre

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Kjell Andresen
VALESTRAND – A CLASSICAL YOUTH CENTRE ...

Raknes

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid
THE EMPEROR’S COIN AT RAKNES...

Gjerstad

Museums, nature conservation, cultural heritage
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Randi Andersen

Kossdalen

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Nils Nonås
KOSSDALSVEGEN (The Kossdal road) ...

Mjøsvågen

Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Randi Andersen
Around Mjøsvågen here is still a compact marine use area. Some of the buildings are common boathouses, but most of them also house small enterprises ...

Herlandsfossen

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
THE POWER STATION AT HERLANDSFOSSEN...

Mo

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
The farms in Modalen are situated on old, fertile sediment beds from the river or the sea – between Mofjorden and Steinslandvatnet. As far back as the...

Vaksdal

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Leif Grung
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Christopher Harris

Dale

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Haaland
THE INDUSTRIAL SETTLEMENT OF DALE ...

Straume - maritime environment

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
THE FRAME-BUILT BOATSHEDS AT STRAUME ...

Dalseid - Eidslandet road construction

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Høvik

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid
NECK RINGS FROM HØVIK ...

Boga

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
In the lightly undulating landscape at Boga there lies an old house with several rooms on a small rise. In fact it looks like three houses built into ...

Alverstraumen

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
The hostelry in Alverstraumen was in operation in 1660, but we do not know for certain how old the place really is. From the time of the sagas the inn...

Bjørsvik

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Stein Byrkjeland
The industrial settlement Bjørsvik...

Verås

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
VERÅS – A FARM IN THE HEATH...

Fosnstraumen

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid Anne Karin Hufthammar Knut Andreas Bergsvik
At the southern end of the bridge between Radøy and Fosnøy archaeologists found an unusual Stone Age settlement. There was a thick “cultural layer” he...

Isdal

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
Isdal one of the few clustered settlements left in the Hordaland communities, after the extensive changes taking place around the turn of the former c...

Håøy

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Birger Odland
Håøy lies centrally in one of the main shipping lanes going into Bergen --- with Håyøsund on the south side facing Meland, and Hagelsundet facing Lind...

Holmeknappen

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ture Andersen
If you come by sea to Bergen and come up the Herdle Fjord, the yellow ochre marine shed at Holmeknappen is a well known landmark to starboard as you c...

Fløksand

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid
THE MEAT KNIFE FROM FLØKSAND...

Frekhaug

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
Frekhaug has been a large farm with well-off owners through many generations. The main house, a two storey building with a hipped roof, must have been...

Iden

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
IDEN – A NOBLE ESTATE ...

Kolåseidet

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Asbjørn Toft Gunnstein Kolstad
The little cowshed which lies on the fence at Kolåseidet, constructed in connection with the stone fence, has put its mark on the cultural landscape. ...

Isdalstø

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Johannes Gjerdåker
POST AND TRANSPORT STATION ...

Litleoksa

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
THE LONGHOUSE AT LITLEOKSA...

Landsvik

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
THE CHIMNEY ROOM FROM LANDSVIK ...

Bruknappen

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Aud Karin Skagen
The hostelry place in Bruknappen is situated north in Radsundet, just south of Festo, by a sheltered idyllic bay, close to the main lane. Sloops both ...

Odland

Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Edvin Odland Johs. Fosse Atle Ove Martinussen
The auger smithies in Odland and Fosse were amongst those which had the largest production of augers in the period between the Wars. Martinus Fosse bu...

Lygra

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Mons Kvamme
The heath landscape on outer Lygra, Utluro and Lurekalven will in future become part of a landscape protection area, to be maintained through traditio...

Mangersnes

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid Bård Kolflåth
SMALL BOATS IN THE IRON AGE At Mangersnes, in a bog just by the sea, there is a layer about one metre thick with wood that has traces of cutting, sh...

Spjutøy

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Gunn Nordal
At Spjutøy and Straumsosen there are three entrances from Lurefjorden to the fjord basin inside. Right up the end of the 1800s the ferry could not rea...

Øvre Tveiten

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
On an east-facing slope above Halllandsvatnet lies the farm hamlet of Øvre Tveiten, two kilometres north of Manger. The stone hayshed lies with its ga...

Seim

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid Sigrid H.H. Kaland
Sæheim (Seim) at Lygrefjord is mentioned as one of the royal farms of Harald Hårfagre. Several of the first Norwegian national kings had their seat he...

Skaråsmyri

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
PEAT EXTRACTION IN SKARÅSMYRI...

Sylta

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

Vassel

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Skule
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Aud Karin Skagen
The small, white-painted schoolhouse at Vassel is a modest, but worthy representative for the school in the rural community – an institution for knowl...

Ystebøtræet

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

Tofting

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

The memorial at Ospa - the MTB 345 tragedy

People and Society
Slag / Battle
Published: 20.04.2005
Author: Hermund Kleppa
On Monday 28 July, 2003 a memorial of a wartime occurrence was unveiled in Solund. It was sixty years to a day after the seizure of the Norwegian moto...

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...