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Strusshamn

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Bjarne Fossen
On the south side of Askøy, just west of Bergen, lies Strusshamn. The sheltered bay is one of the best harbours in Byfjorden, on the route south. At t...

Hop - Thomas Erichsens Minde

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Bjarne Fossen
From the 1500s Hop was noble estate for the law speaker in Bergen and Gulen judicial districts. Several of the law speakers were of noble descent, suc...

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...

Ramsøy

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid Nils Georg Brekke
“At thick of night a thundering knock on the door; the man in the house wakes up, jumps out and demands: Who cries? Yes, now you must out, the beacon ...

Herdla farm

People and Society
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Bjarne Fossen
Numerous finds show that the settlement at Herdla goes back to prehistoric times, and the large estate at Herdla has enjoyed a central place in the na...

Træet

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

Ask - The king's estate

People and Society
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Bjarne Fossen

Hop - The royal mounds

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid

Strømsnes

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Bjarne Fossen

Herdla Church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Liden
A letter from the Pope Eugenius 3 in 1146 mentions St. Nikolaus church at Herdla. This church belonged under Munkeliv monastery, which was founded in ...

Herdla – glacial deposits

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth Haakon Fossen
The shift in the landscape is striking between the barren craggy moors north on Askøy and the green fields of Herdla, which has the county's biggest f...

Herdla - botany

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

Herdla - Migrating birds

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
Bergen folk landed on it, long and well. The Germans took it over, during the Second World War. The birds had been doing it for several thousands of y...

Herdleflaket

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
Spring, summer and autumn, there is bird life on Valen, and the tidal zone is especially attractive. Out on Herdlaflaket, you see ducks and other divi...

Ask - jordbær

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth Haakon Fossen
Strawberry-growing on Askøy flourished in the beginning of the last century. When gardener Samson Eik took in the type "Seierherren" from Rosendal in ...

Kollevågen

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
From 1938 until 1975 there was a large amount of trash dumped in Kollevågen. A lot of the garbage from the city of Bergen ended up here. The dump was ...

Hanøy

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
At Kong Olav V's Place in Bergen, one finds stone from Hanøy. Together with Sima-granite from Eid Fjord, it decorates the city floor around "The Blue ...

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...

Fedje bog

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
The wild rabbit is really native to Northwest Africa, but the Ancient Romans introduced them to large parts of Europe. Not to Norway, rightly enough: ...

Stormark

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Peter Emil Kaland
Both the climate and people have been decisive in shaping the bog landscape on Fedje - a landscape that has been evolving over several thousands of ye...

Innarsøyene

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
SEA BIRDS ON INNARSØYANE ...

Holmengrå

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Helge Sunde
Holmengrå is the only place in Hordaland where we find traces of the abrasion that is supposed to have transformed Western Norway from a Himalaya-like...

Fedje traffic office

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Frank Johnsen