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Bakholmen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ronny B. Skaar

On Austre Bakholmen, a small islet of around 15 acres between Hundvåko and Drøni, lies the oldest trading centres in Austevoll. For a long time this w...

Hufthammar

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Karl Johan Haugland

Farming in Austevoll has nearly all been in combination with fishing as the main industry. The farms in the district are therefore small, even in a we...

Krosshamn

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Krosshamn lies in the shipping lane northeast of Hundvåkøy, near Sandtorv. The name probably derives from the fact that this is Austevoll’s harbour si...

Bryggen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

In the 1300s Bergen was a trading centre of European dimension. The town is thought to have had around 7000 inhabitants and was the largest and most i...

Vågsbunnen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Vågsbotn was the name of the innermost part of the eastern part of town from Auta-almenning (today’s Vetrlidsalmenning), skirting the bottom of Vågen ...

Strandsiden

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

During the 1300s Strandsiden changed from a rural area with a monastery to a pulsating trading centre with boathouses, storehouses and embankment....

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...

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...

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...

Kvalvåg

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Kvalvåg on Stolmen is first mentioned as a trading post in 1655, and in 1731 the owner Jens Meyer, was granted a royal trading privilege....

Herdlevær

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Ronny B. Skaar

Herdlevær lies on one of the small islands west of Hjeltefjorden, facing the North Sea and the big ocean. Today you may arrive there by car. The numer...

Hjelmo

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

On the farm Hjelmo, furthest north in Øygarden, in the innermost part of a long bay, there is a fine boatshed collection with a church beside it. From...

Hernar

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Sigrid H.H. Kaland

Hernar is a small group of islands northwest of Seløy, an old outlying harbour on the western route. This is where ships were lying in wait for favour...

Brattholmen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

The old guesthouse location in Brattholmen on the east side of Litlesotra, was probably established in the first half of the 1700s. A list from 1748 m...

Notaholmen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

The fishnet shed at Notaholmen stands as a reminder of the days when people used to row out on the fjord to set their nets. On Notaholmen the nets wer...

Håkonshallen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

In 1266 “brann hallin i Biorgyn” (the hall in Biorgyn burned down) the Icelandic annals recount. The building we call Håkonshallen must be one of the ...

The Rosenkrantz tower

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

In the Scholeus engraving (section on the right) from the 1850s the fortified king’s estate at the entrance to Vågen has become a modern Renaissance p...

Glesvær - Trading post

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Åsmund Lien Atle Austestad

Glesvær is one of the oldest trading posts on the West Norwegian coast. In the 1700s and 1800s this was the most important fishing centre on Sotra. Th...

Golta - Long house

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

In the years between the wars a major registration of houses and house costumes, house construction methods, fireplaces and forms of housing clusters ...

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...

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 ...

Bukken

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Liden

In Christian IV’s diary from Norgesreisa (trip to Norway) in 1599, we find the reference or anecdote that is the origin of the name Bukken. A Dutch fu...

Langøy

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Up to 1842 it was necessary to have a royal letter of privilege in order to carry out trade. According to the law only city dwellers were allowed to o...

Landro

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ågot Gammersvik

Landro has been the largest estate on Sotra, including 15 farms with reasonable conditions for agriculture. Their boathouses have had an excellent har...

Nordvik

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Nordvikasetret

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Træet

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Erling Virkesdal

Strømsnes

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Bjarne Fossen

Trellevik

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Åge Landro

Goltasundet

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Nils O. Golten

For generations the land-seine was the most important tool for catching herring and mackerel, and therefore a suitable casting bay was worth its weigh...

Breiviksundet

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Sigmund Alsaker

There are still fishing sheds standing that were in use right up until the former turn of the century during the winter fisheries. The owners of these...

Kvernapollen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ronny B. Skaar

When the workers came to Kollsnes to start on the work with the landing for the gas terminal from the Troll field in the North Sea, they found the rui...

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

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

Bekkjarvik

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Kvalesund

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

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...

Søvik

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Jon Søvik

Bergenhus

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

FROM CASTLE TO FORTIFICATION ...

Bergen – The Urban Community

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Bergen - our first royal residence city – has for centuries been Norway’s, and for long periods, Scandinavia’s biggest city. The historical monuments ...

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