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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...

Midt-Våge

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: William Helland-Hansen
VISIT FROM THE UNIVERSE ABOVE ...

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...

The pioneers who discovered the natural history of Hordaland

People and Society
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Knut Fægri Hilde Sandvik William Helland-Hansen Bjarne Meidell Dagfinn Moe
When Professor Emeritus Knut Fægri (1909-2001) was asked to write the book's chapter about the natural science pioneers of Hordaland, he answered uneq...

Petroleum riches off the coast of Hordaland

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: William Helland-Hansen
Already in the 1750s, Erik Pontioppidan fantasized about the possibility of petroleum in the North Sea, in "Forsøg til Norges naturlige Historie" (= S...

Godske farm

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: William Helland-Hansen
GODSKE AND GODSKE FARM ...

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...

Steinsdalsfossen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: William Helland-Hansen Inge Aarseth
Øvsthusfossen, or Steinsdalsfossen waterfall, as it is called today, attracts tourists by the thousands, and always has done as long as there have bee...

Vøringsfossen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: William Helland-Hansen
The official height of Vøringsfossen is 182 metres. A long time before modern measuring methods were invented, natural historians and other curious pe...

Vassfjøro

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen William Helland-Hansen
ROOF TILES IN THE MOUNTAINS ...

Storegraven

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Lidén
The first mention of Granvin church in written sources is in 1306, but the church location must be far older than this. The farm Storegraven is centra...

Grindheim church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Lidén
The first church at Grindheim was a stave church with a free-standing steeple. The church was first mentioned in 1326, but was probably built long bef...

Støle church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Lidén
The stone church at Støle may have been built around 1160 probably as a private chapel for the mighty Stødle clan. It is likely that it was Erling Ska...

Halsnøy Monastery

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Lidén
Halsnøy Monastery is situated in the midst of the lush fjord country in Sunnhordland, on one of the old spits, or “necks”, that has given name to the ...

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...

The Church and the Monastery

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Hans Emil Lidén
THE MOVING FORCE IN LOCAL SOCIETY “I recall the church’s exterior, the black tar-clad timber walls with the black pan tiles; I remember it made a glo...

Ænes

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Lidén
Ænes has been one of the prosperous farms at the Mauranger Fjord in medieval times. At the time of Harald Gilles, around 1130, we hear of GAUT at Ænes...

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...

Kinsarvik church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Peter Helland-Hansen
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Lidén
By all accounts the church in Kinsarvik must have been one of the four main churches in the old Horda County. The stone church standing today was rest...

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...