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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...

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...

Mariakirken

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Apart from the king’s estate at Holmen, Håkonshallen and the lower floors of the Rosenkrantz tower, the three parish churches in the centre of Bergen ...

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....

Verftet

Livelihood and Craftsmanship

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Today the name “Verftet” is linked to both a district and conglomeration of buildings lying protected by Fredriksberg castle. The original shipyard wa...

Sandviken

Livelihood and Craftsmanship

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik Trygve Fett

Close to the tunnel opening at Amalie Skrams vei in Ssandviken, there is a cultural monument of European dimensions; a rope making works that produced...

Fana church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Frederik Konow Lund

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

In the Middle Ages the stone church in Fana was a place for pilgrimage, containing a miraculous silver crucifix that could heal the sick. A hill to th...

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...

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

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...

Møvik

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Tore Lande Moe

In the winter of 1849 the impoverished Fjell municipality was forced to put money into new burial places at Møvik and Bildøydalen, because of the ragi...

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...

Ådland

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Ådland, innermost in the Samnanger Fjord is an old church centre and transport centre; a nodal point in the transport from sea to land. The white pain...

Årstad

Archaeology

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Alrekstad (later Årstad) is the birthplace of Bergen. The estate was an estate for Harald Hårfagre and several of his descendants: Eirik Blodøks, Håko...

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 ...

Tælavåg

People and Society

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ronny B. Skaar

Tælavåg has a significant place in the history of the German occupation in WWII. The small community by the sea, where for centuries people had made a...

Skogsvåg

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Øystein Frøiland

Kval i våg! Når det ropet gjekk, var det berre å få ut den kraftige kvalnota til å stengja vågen med, og så kunne veidinga ta til. I uminnelege tider ...

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...

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...

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...

Høybøen

Archaeology

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid Kjersti Randers Sigrid H.H. Kaland

In connection with the planned developments in the oil sector at Vindenes around 1980, excavations were carried out under the auspices of Bergen Histo...

Toftøyna

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

FOLDS: NATURE'S ART ...

Toftestallen

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Herman G. Gade

The large coastal waves that crash down on the islands west in the sea gather their energy from storms and winds all the way out in the North Atlantic...

Power line

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

When the terminal at Kollsnes in Øygarden was going to be extended in the 1990s, environmental organisations, the local community and politicians dema...

Tveit

Dialects and arts

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

TWO NEIGHBOURS – THE DECORATIVE PAINTER AND THE FIDDLE MAKER ...

Tysse

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ivar Bård Aadland

As early as 1862 Svein L.Røsseland started a country store and lodging house at Ytre Tysse, and later on he became steamship agent and the first post ...

Mørkhølen

Communications

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Statens vegvesen Nils Georg Brekke Ivar Bård Aadland

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

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 ...

Tyssøy

Archaeology

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

B.E.Bendixen, who has written about “The Churches in Søndre Bergenhus Amt”, believed even around 1900 that there was evidence at Tyssøy of the church ...

Trellevik

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Åge Landro

Risøya

Archaeology

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

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...

Knarrevik

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Haaland

Having passed well over the bridge across to Sotra you pass an industrial plant surrounded by a budding community; the mineral mill of A/S Norwegian T...

Li

Dialects and arts

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Turøyvarden

Communications

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Atle Ove Martinussen

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...

Hjartøy

Archaeology

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid Sigmund Alsaker

A FISHING VILLAGE FROM THE IRON AGE It was not black gold (oil), but the ocean's silver, that brought riches from the west of Hjartøy 1000 years ago....

Møshovd

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

Gjønavatnet and Kikedalen

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Inge Aarseth Peter Emil Kaland

Precipitous cliffs tower over a thousand metres straight up into the air in wild and narrow Kikedalen at the end of Lake Gjønavatnet. Even in mid-summ...

Skogseidvatnet

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Lake Skogseidvatnet is the most famous fishing lake in Hordaland, with good stocks of both char and trout. There is fishing here throughout the year: ...

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...

Vinnesleira

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth Anders Lundberg Stein Byrkjeland

Bays that are shallow far out into the sea, with fine sand and clay, are rare in Hordaland. Where they are found, the reason is usually that the edge ...

Yddal

Plant life

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Stein Byrkjeland

Yddal is one of the biggest and finest pine forest areas in the county. The rich forest resources provided an important foundation for the settlement ...

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

Gullbotnen

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Bjørn Moe

A barren belt where almost nothing grows, runs through the forest on the east slope of Gullbotnen. But, along the west side of the main road there is ...

Grasdalen

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

MARBLE AND KARST ...

Kvernes

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Bjørn Moe Idar Restad

Håkons Hall, Domkirken Church, Bergen Børs Stock Exchange, Permanenten and other well known buildings in Bergen are decorated with soapstone from Øvre...

Slåttene

Plant life

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Idar Restad

Frøland

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Arve Tvede Stein Byrkjeland

Much rain, a steep drop and nearness to Bergen meant that the power-making potential of the Samnanger water system was exploited early. Samnanger was ...

Frølandsvatnet

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

SONG SWANS IN LAKE FRØLAND ...

Kvitingen

Weather and climate

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Endre Skaar

Few other places in Hordaland, or even the whole country, get as much rain as in the Samnanger mountains. The mountains here simply attract wetness. T...

Lona

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

One does not need much imaginationto see that where the river bends down in Røssebotnen, there has once been a lake. The landscape tells this - more c...

Frøland - Liarostunnel

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

Steinevik

Plant life

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Møkster - seabirds

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Fish and guests smell after three days, it is said. The cormorants do not need this long. If you follow your nose, the cormorant is not difficult to f...

Møkster - botany

Plant life

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Anders Lundberg Knut Krzywinski

Møkstrafjordøyane

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Erling Rykkelid

The sea keeps the bedrock in the outer skerries smooth and clean. When the bedrock is also varied and interesting, the setting is perfect for a discov...

Drøna

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Erling Rykkelid

GUEST FROM THE EARTH'S INTERIOR ...

Bekkjarvik

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Eidsbøen

Archaeology

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

Where the school and the sports facility lie at Eidsbøen there was previously a bog surrounded by small hillocks. More than 1000 years ago this was a ...

Lysekloster - Mushroom flora

Plant life

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Olav Aas

The area around Lysekloster is one of the most popular places in Hordaland for picking mushrooms. The large variety of mushrooms probably stems from t...

Sjøbøelva river

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Pøyla

Plant life

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Anders Lundberg

Lysekloster - The monks and nature

Plant life

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Lysekloster was the largest agricultural property in the country when it was phased out during the Reformation in 1537. In its prime this cloister enc...

Ulven

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

In the region of Ulven phyllite occurs with Hordaland's youngest fossils, and a beautiful quartz conglomerate. The phyllite and conglomerate got squee...

Ulvensletta

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Bondevik

Ulvenvatnet

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Lake Ulvenvatnet is thought to be the most species rich wetlands in the municipality. Despite this, the area is not protected, nor is it likely ever t...

Villelia

Plant life

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Oselva

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland Arve Tved

Oselvo is the biggest waterway on the Bergen peninsula, with sources in Gullfjellet and Sveningen. There is a fall of only 60 metres along the entire ...

Søfteland

Weather and climate

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Kåre Utaaker

If you drive between Søfteland and Ulven on a clear spring morning, or an evening in late autumn, you are advised to be careful on the turns. The temp...

Os valley

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

Raudlia

Plant life

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

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

Eikelandsosen

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

"So many and such big potholes as are found at Eikelandsosen, we don't see other places in western Norway, and as beautifully polished as the mountain...

Hopslia

Plant life

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Some of the giant trees in Hopslia north of Holme Fjord are as much as thirty metres high. Elm and ash are the most common, basswood somewhat rarer. R...

Glesvær

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

He wondered, surely, the fisherman who in 1769 found a 3.3 metre-long silvery shining sea creature at Glesvær. Perhaps he hadn't heard the legend abou...

Vatlestraumen

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

There are coal bits hidden in the sand under Vatlestraumen. These remains from a geological layer from the Jurassic Period were discovered when the un...

Litlesotra

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

CORAL REEFS ...

Fjell river network

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Geir H.Johnsen

There are many river networks out by the coast and they tend to be small and unassuming. The farmer has relied upon the watercourses to run his mill a...

Løno

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe William Helland-Hansen Stein Byrkjeland

Small boat folk in Hordaland know where Løno is. As do many seabirds. With the big ocean at its back and a wide, weather beaten strait ahead of it, Lø...

Haganes

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Inge Aarseth

The gneiss landscape west and north of Bergen viewed in profile can remind us of a saw blade of the kind that has long, slanted sides that get broken ...

Ågotnes - crystals

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

Road cuts and blast areas are a joy to rock collectors, even if the disturbance to nature is ever so disfiguring. These are the best kinds of places t...

Ågotnes - Stonechat

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

STONECHAT ...

Tjeldstømarka

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland Nils Georg Brekke

There is no place in Hordaland where there are so many over-wintering song swans as in Tjeldstømarka. And there are few places in the county that have...

Skogsøyna

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

There isn't much forest on Skogsøyna today, but that there is, has been planted. There is not much wildlife, either. But, quite a lot of birds pass by...

Blomvågen

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Jan Mangerud

"One of the big scientific sensations", was the title in the Bergens Times newspaper on the 22nd of November, 1941. It was the geologist Isal Undås wh...

Turøyvegen

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

The earthquake was caused by movements along fault zones in the bedrock where the blocks of rock chafed against each other. In Devonian time, there we...

Fossen Bratte

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

The steep drop by Fossen cliff has been the biggest challenge for those who wished to make a road over Kvamskogen through the years. Leave the car by ...

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 ...

Golta - Gneiss

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Inge Aarseth

Over thousands of years, autumn storms and strong land-driving winds have cleaned the bare rocks of Golta. The waves can beat far in over land and mak...

Golta - Pygmy willow

Plant life

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Spildepollen

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

The oceanic crust of the North Sea was subjected to a lot of stretching both in Permian and Triassic times, and later in the Jurassic. This stretching...

Kalandsvika

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland Bjørn Moe

There is little to say about the opportunity for surveying from the bird observation tower in Kalandsvika: 155 different bird species have been sighte...

Bergenhus

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

FROM CASTLE TO FORTIFICATION ...

Korskirken

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Domkirken

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Fjøsanger road

Livelihood and Craftsmanship

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Troldhaugen

Dialects and arts

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Munkebotn

Communications

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Garnes

Communications

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Fantoft Stave Church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

When a new church was to be built at Fortun in Sogn in 1883, the old stave church was in danger of being demolished. During the years after J.C.Dahl t...

Kyrkjebyrkjeland

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Åsane

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

Most associate Åsane with ridges, naturally enough (the Norwegian word for "ridge" is "Ås"). A lesser noticed trait in the landscape are the unusual f...

Gaupås

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

Reppadalen

Plant life

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

The unusual bog landscape, with enormous peat deposits surrounded by steep mountainsides, makes Reppadalen in Arna an exciting, but little visited tou...

Kråmyrane

Plant life

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Sandviksfjellet

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

On Sandviksfjellet there are old boulders that have been made into mountains. The stones have been stretched out or squeezed together between huge sla...

Byfjorden

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Herman G.Gade

Swimming and fishing is fully possible in Byfjorden (By Fjord). The water is of good quality most places, after considerable resources have been used ...

Byparken

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

It isn't true that hungry students have hunted down basking ducks in the city park Byparken in their spring fervour, as rumours may have it. But, it i...

Fjellsiden

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Møllendal graveyard is the winter home of the urban crows in Bergen. Those that do not want to stay overnight in the graveyard, perch in the lush deci...

Fløyfjellet

Plant life

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Munkebotsdalen

Plant life

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Rambjøra

Plant life

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Stein Byrkjeland

In Sanddalen and Helldalsåsen the building of houses has increased dramatically. Where there eariery was grazing land, hundreds of families now live. ...

Fjøsanger

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Jan Mangerud

Fjøsanger is known among ice age researchers from around the world. Under an excavation in 1975-77, geologists from the University of Bergen found lay...

Nordåsvatnet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Herman G.Gade

The Post-war Era came to Fana with its population growth and modern sanitary equipment. This had nearly catastrophic consequences for Nordåsvatnet as ...

Marmorøyen

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

Rådalen

Plant life

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bernt-Håvard Øyen

"...it would not be of any particular economical interest to support the planting of forest as the forest that can be cultivated will leave much to be...

Stend station

Communications

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Horda Museeum

Museums, nature conservation, cultural heritage

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Håkonshella

Archaeology

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Kalandsvatnet and Klokkarvatnet

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Korsfjorden

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland Nils Georg Brekke

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