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Rosesmuggrenden

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik Trygve Fett

THE COMMUNITIES AROUND SANDVIKEN...

Kvernhusvågen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Kåre Ness

Slåtterøy

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Skånevik - the trading post

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Kjell Andresen

There are only two buildings left of the old trading and guesthouse settlement in Skånevik. They are in the centre, close to the main road passing thr...

Kyrping

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Kjell Andresen

The trading post down by the fjord at Kyrping does not belong to the oldest group of trading posts from the 1600s and 1700s. It was only after the lib...

Rosendal Barony

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Per Jahn Lavik Anne Grete Honerød

The Barony of Rosendal lies in the grounds of the old noble estate of Hatteberg, on the north side of the Hatteberg river, around one kilometre up fro...

Espevær - the Trading Post

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Kari Shetelig Hovland

In the sea west of Bømlo lies Espevær, half an hour’s rowing trip across the sound from Vespestadvågen. This is a well-run and well-maintained local c...

Mosterhamn

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Mosterhamn is one of the old privileged trading posts situated centrally in the shipping lane, whether the ships sailed on Langenuten, Nyeleia through...

Ryvarden

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

In the Islandic Landnåmabok there is a story that the explorer Floke Vilgjerdsson built a cairn “where meetest Hordaland and Rogaland” and the cairn w...

Årskog

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Arne Tislavoll

Årskog farm is situated in a typical coastal landscape in a gentle terrain that slopes down from the outlying heaths down towards the fjord. The farm ...

Engesund

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Stein Erik Gilj

For more than 350 years Engesund has been a place for hostelries and trading in the Fitjar islands. The place is centrally placed in the shipping lane...

Einstapevoll - the farm

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Einstapevoll (from einstape: “bregne” (fern)) lies on the west side of the Tittelsnes peninsula. Up to 1831 the farm was a vicarage belonging to Stord...

Haugsbø

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

The single unit farm without a road to it, Haugsbø, is situated on the east side of the Tittelsnes peninsula facing Ålfjorden. As far back as the Mid...

Sæbøtunet

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Tore Lande Mo

When you come into the well-tended farm steading at Sæbø just above Etne centre, you get the impression of a Sunnhordland farm from well before the ti...

Brandasund

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

On Gisøya Island, on the west side of Brandasund Sound, there is a very privileged trading post and traveller's Inn from the 1600s, with the North Sea...

Leirvik - The prison

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Tore Lande Moe

The district prison in Leirvik officially started operations in 1863. Together with the corresponding institutions in Voss and Bergen, this was Søndre...

Sagvåg

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Egil Nysæter

The pit saw on the property of the farm Valvatna, is the origin of the name Sagvåg. The sawmill is mentioned as early as 1564. The name of the place a...

Sørhuglo

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Tore Lande Moe

The tax collector’s farm at Sørhuglo is one of the many farms for state employees in Hordaland. According to history, “Futastovo” was built by the tax...

Hjølmo

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

In the steep hillside in Hjølmodalen, a small side valley from Øvre Eidfjord (Upper Eidfjord), which has been a key entrance to the Hardanger Plateau,...

Måbø

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Kjell Andresen

Måbø is the uppermost farm in Måbødalen. This narrow and steep mountain valley has been one of the routes from the fjord communities up to the mountai...

Kråkenes lighthouse

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Fyrlykt / Lighthouse

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Gunnar Urtegaard

In 1906, a lighthouse station was built at Kråkenes under pressure from the Kristiansund Skipper Association. The lighthouse is located to the west of...

Agastølen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Whoever wanders the mountain plateau will form time to time hit upon old mountain summer farms, with solid old stone sheds, half sunk into the ground;...

Kjeåsen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

High up above the fjord, at a height of 600m lie the two holdings at Kjeåsen. Today you can drive there by car, through a new tunnel that the power en...

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....

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 ...

The City and the Stril country

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Anders Bjarne Fossen

The relationship between Bergen and its neighbouring districts, normally known as “Strilelandet”, has, over the centuries, given rise to greater confl...

Damsgård

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

As a fairytale castle Damsgård Hovedgård lies on the slope rising up from the Puddefjord. The old connection between the farm and the sea, as we see i...

Salhus

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Salhus has been a connecting point for sea travellers far back in time. The name probably derives from the Old Norse word sáluhús, “house for travell...

Arnatveit

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

On the farm of Arnatveit, high up on the slope above the highway, an old smokehouse remains standing in the courtyard of the main farm property, in th...

Stend

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Garden Stend høyrde i mellomalderen til Nonneseter kloster. Etter reformasjonen var han i eiga til Vincents Lunge fram til 1680. Då overtok generaltol...

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...

The waterfalls in the valley of Nærøydalen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Foss / Waterfall

Published: 15.11.2007

Author: Trude Knutzen Knagenhjelm

The impressive waterfalls in the innermost part of Nærøydalen - Sivlefossen and Stalheimsfossen are famous tourist attractions. They are both examples...

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...

The waterfalls in Flåm and along the Aurlandsfjord

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Foss / Waterfall

Published: 15.11.2007

Author: Trude Knutzen Knagenhjelm

In the valley of Flåmsdalen and along the Aurlandsfjord the landscape is dominated by a number of waterfalls. Some of them are among the most famous t...

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...

Beitelen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Fjell / Mountain

Published: 15.11.2007

Author: Trude Knutzen Knagenhjelm

Beitelen is one of the most famous landmarks in the Nærøyfjorden World Heritage area. The characteristic mountain top offers an excellent view of the ...

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....

Bru

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Bruosen is one of the few river harbours in the county. As landing place for the churchgoers, this place and the boatshed environment follow a traditi...

Nes

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

The farm Nes lies directly inside Mundheim on a forested headland in the fjord between Mundheimsvika and Bondesundet, a farm with an attractive and we...

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...

Bolstad

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Johannes Gjerdåker

The village at Bolstadøyri acquired its structure around the middle of the 1800s, but from the old days there has been a meeting place here; court loc...

Evanger

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Evanger (from Old Norse ålvangr, “vang”, “voll” (field) where the horses may graze) is the place where the river from Vangsvatnet, the Voss watercours...

Vik

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

The farm Vik in Jondal has been one of the earliest settled farms in Jondal; a good and fertile farm east of the river. Legends hold that mighty men h...

Torsnes

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Leif Galtung

When bishop J.Neumann was on a visitation in Hardanger in 1825 he also visited Torsnes, the seat of the Galtung family. They were then in the process ...

Svåsand

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Down by the fjord at Svåsand, close to the main highway, there is a long row of boathouses, one of the well-preserved, older boathouse locations along...

Hesthamar

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Bjarne Sørensen

Hesthamar, some kilometres north of Utne, is one of the oldest residences for a district recorder in the country. In 1637, barely 50 years after the o...

Utne

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ågot Gammersvik

When sergeant Peder Larsen Børsem from Strandebarm was “demobilised” in 1721, following the large Nordic War, he married the Bergen lady Elisabeth Sch...

Finne

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Peter Bonde, who owned Finne towards the end of the 1200s, had a jumping stag in his family emblem. This stag is the origin for the heraldic blazon of...

Jåstad

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

The farm Jåstad, situated a few kilometres north of Agatunet, must have been a grand farm in medieval times. Torolf on Jåstad is mentioned as arbitrat...

Aga

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ågot Gammersvik

The grand farm Aga on the west side of Sørfjorden, came under protection in 1937, when the agricultural reform threatened to disperse the old clustere...

Mølster

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Aslak T. Helleve

“Above the old Vossevangen lies the old Mølster family farm. It is situated on a hill, as family farms will do. It is as if chance has wanted to make ...

Fjose

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Aslak T. Helleve

The farm Fjose lies uppermost in Tjukkebygdi, one of the good grain farms on the sunny side here. The woodcarver Styrk Fjose (1873-1937) came from thi...

Ringheim

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Johannes Gjerdåker

The farm Ringheim by Lundarvatnet is amongst the largest in Voss. It is divided into eight units and four cadastral numbers: Store Ringheim, Indre Rin...

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...

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...

Trading Posts And Guest Houses

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Jan Henrik Munksgaard

“A NECESSITY FOR THE COMMON MAND AND THE TRAVELLER” On the way to the west Today a motorist in Bergen has many choices. The roads lead north, south...

The Urban Settlements

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Anders Haaland

The development of urban settlements after 1850 is a historic process of great significance for the cultural landscape. Besides the great land reforms...

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...

Vernacular Architecture and the Landscape

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

”It is strange what expensive dwelling houses are being erected many places in the villages now.  Supposedly people think that they can do good b...

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...

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

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....

The village of Vassbygdi

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Grend / Hamlet

Published: 12.11.2007

Author: Trude Knutzen Knagenhjelm

"The people who live above this lake are called 'Vassbygder' and the parish stretches eastwards up to the road leading to the valley of Hallingdal in ...

The village of Flåm

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Bygd / Village

Published: 12.11.2007

Author: Trude Knutzen Knagenhjelm

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...

Aurlandsvangen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Bygd / Village

Published: 12.11.2007

Author: Trude Knutzen Knagenhjelm

The place name of Aurlandsvangen comprises a large area, corresponding to the Vangen "sokn" (sub-parish). This includes the farms along the fjord from...

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...

Leirvik - The trading post

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Tore Lande Moe

Already in the Middle Ages the good harbour at Leirvik provided a connecting point. Here was a court of law, and a guesthouse was established here in ...

Ådlandsstova

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

The Ådland house is one of the biggest medieval houses still existing in West Norway. It is constructed from unusually large, hard fir wood, beautiful...

Kåravika

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Færøysund

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Harald Johan Sandvik

The old trading post lies at the sound between Stord and Færøy in Langenuen. There was a country store and steamship forwarding agent up to 1964. The ...

Smedholmen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Arne Tislavoll

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

The storehouse at Fletene

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Gardshus / Farm house

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Finn Borgen Førsund

With the year 1524 marked into a log, we have factual evidence for the age of this small house at Fletene at Holsen. Most likely Fletene is also the...

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

Førde Hotell

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Losji / Accommodation

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Torkjell Djupedal

Førde Hotell is today the smaller of the two hotels in Førde, but has a longer tradition. In older photos of Førde the hotel is always there, both b...

The bailiff farm of Volden

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Gardsbruk / Farm

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Torkjell Djupedal

The bailiff farm of Volden is the only residence for high-ranking public officials in Førde which is even today the residence of a public official. ...

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

The boat stop Steinen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Grend / Hamlet

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Finn Borgen Førsund

Steinen became the port of call for Førde. Several activities grew up here, for example the first manufacturing industries. Yet, like so many other bo...

Bergenhus

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

FROM CASTLE TO FORTIFICATION ...

Stadsporten

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Store Milde

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

When the merchant Henrich Henrichsen Weinwich bought the property at Store Milde in 1723, he probably rebuilt the entire, or parts of the main house s...

Frøystein

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

The farm Frøystein by the Ulvik fjord is commonly called Fryste. In 1614 the name was written Frøstemb – an obvious Danish influence – and the form Fr...

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 ...

Kongstun

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

In the Middle Ages the farmers were under obligation to transport state officials. The bishops were entitled to 18 horses when they travelled about on...

Øvre Folkedal

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Folkedal, which today is like a small “detour” from the main highway, was in the Middle Ages centrally situated in one of the most important roads bet...

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...

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...

Norheim

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Norheim, “the farm by the narrow sound” is mentioned in a diploma from the Middle Ages and in an inheritance document. This is one of the large farms ...

Vikøy

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Lidén

Through Adolph Tidemand’s detailed close-ups of smokehouses in Kvam, the vicarage in Vikøy, where he lived during his painting trips through Hardanger...

Gjerde

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Espevær - lobster park

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland William Helland-Hansen

The first Lobster Park in Espevær was built in 1887, and at the most there were three here. Operations ceased in 1957. The one lobster park that remai...

Tjernagelsholmen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Fet

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anne Hilde Nagel

The high farm of Sinjarheim in the valley of Aurlandsdalen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Gardsbruk / Farm

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Anders Gjerde

In the valley of Aurlandsdalen there are many deserted farms, and Sinjarhiem is one of these. The farm has a high location on a hill with gorges, ca...

Huse

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

The farm Huse is situated on a broad terrace in the valley above the church and the commons ground in Kinsarvik. Huse is one of the largest farms in K...

Tvinne

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Johannes Gjerdåker

Following the introduction of fixed postal deliveries in Norway from 1647, post farms were appointed where the farmer was under obligation to bring th...

Helleland

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ågot Gammersvik

The old “recorder residence” at Helleland has been both residence for the district recorder and officer’s residence. The main building, which came und...

Oppheim

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ole Didrik Lærum

In the slope above Oppheim church lies the old vicarage at OPPHEIM. If you stroll up the road from the church you will arrive in a farmyard marked by ...

Stalheim

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Johannes Gjerdåker Kaare Tønneberg

Stalheim is situated between Stalheimsfossen and Sivlefossen, in a community with the farms Sivle and Brekke. The most likely explanation of the name ...

Odda - The tourist town

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Randi Bårtvedt

The pioneering tourists in the 1830s-40s brought a momentum in the tourist traffic to the fjord and mountain country Norway. At the time Odda was a hi...

Reinsnos

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Inge Reinsnos

The mountain settlement Reinsnos is situated at nearly 700 metres above sea level at the end of the Reinsnos lake; an entry point to the Hardanger pla...

Bu

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Skredhaugen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Heggjagarden

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

The transport exchange on the farm Vik in Eidfjord was an important part of the communication network in older times. This is where people secured tra...

Hårbrekke

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Skogasel

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

A RENAISSANCE LODGING HOUSE ...

Haugatun

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Torgeir Alvsaker

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Kjell Andresen

Close to the main road at Bru lies a large well-proportioned building with classical features; of size most like a church, with church vestibule and a...

Jondal

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Torgeir Alvsaker

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Kari Losnedahl

THE HOUSE FOR THE YOUTH MOVEMENT – STRONGHOLD OF NORWEGIANNESS...

Indre Vikane

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

INDRE VIKANE – A TRACE OF THE MIDDLE AGES IN THE LANDSCAPE ...

Herandsholmen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

In 1754 the law officer Andreas Heiberg advised that a guesthouse location be established at Herandsholmen, as there were no lodging places for travel...

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...

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...

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

Valestrandsfossen - Youth centre

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Kjell Andresen

VALESTRAND – A CLASSICAL YOUTH CENTRE ...

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 ...

Lydvo

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

LYDVALOFTET ...

Fleischers Hotel

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Aslak T. Helleve

Nesheim

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Aslak T. Helleve

NESHEIMSTUNET ...

Ystås

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

THE JOINED HAMLET AT YSTÅS ...

Sandven

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

THE COASTAL COMMUNITY AND SANDVEN HOTEL ...

Rystestøylen mountain farm

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Støl / Mountain farm

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Gunnar Urtegaard

Rystestøylen is an old mountain farm for the farms at Raudeberg. There could be as many as 40 cows there in the summer. Girls from the farms took care...

The village of Gudvangen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Grend / Hamlet

Published: 06.10.2007

Author: Trude Knutzen Knagenhjelm

Gudvangen is located at the very head of the Nærøyfjord, covering a distance from Stalheim in the western part of the valley of Nærøydalen to Dyrdal f...

The farm of Ytre Moa – farming and the use of resources

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Gardsbruk / Farm

Published: 11.10.2007

Author: Kari Larsen

The means of subsistence at Ytre Moa were based on the same natural resources that people have used until fairly recent times; the soil, the forest an...

The hamlet of Frønningen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Bygd / Village

Published: 23.10.2007

Author: Trude Knutzen Knagenhjelm

The hamlet of Frønningen is located between Revsnes and the entrance to the Aurlandsfjord in the municipality of Lærdal. The hamlet borders to Kaupang...

Neshamn

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Neshamn must be an ancient place for meeting and spending the night for travellers. The place blossomed in connection with the times of economic expan...

Hiskjo

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Bjørn Moe

THE TRADING POST AT HISKHOLMEN...

Outer Håvika

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Kjell Andresen

Klinkholmen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ernst Berge Drange

Kubbervik, or Vikjo as it was known colloquially, must have been established as a trading post under the farm of Håland some time around 1600. The rea...

Årbakka - The trading center

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

THE TRADING CENTRE...

Godøysund

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ernst Berge Drange

The old hostelry centres were strategically placed with good harbours and anchoring conditions where people travelled. GODØYSUND, or Gøysundet, as it ...

Færavåg

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ernst Berge Drange

The main house at Færavåg was built in 1599. History tells us that a German came to Færavåg and built the house. He divided the land between his two s...

Nedrevåge

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Vågsbygdo was severely hit by landslides and rock falls in the decades around 1700, in addition, the rivers transported masses of loose sediment, both...

Hovdanes

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

THE WHEELHOUSE AT HOVDANES ...

Vika

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

The old smokehouse still left in the farmyard at Vikjo a little south of Omastrand, was protected in 1924. The smokehouse is from the 1500's. ...

The mountain farm Langhuso in the valley of Undredalsdalen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Støl / Mountain farm

Published: 13.03.2006

Author: Åsmund Ohnstad

The farms of Undredal and Hjøllo are located close together on the western side of the Aurlandsfjord, about five kilometres south of the entrance to...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

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 ...

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...

Sylta

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Tofting

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

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