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Urnes stave church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Margrethe Henden Aaraas Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Urnes stave church is considered to be the queen of stave churches, and is one of the four Norwegian cultural heritage sites to be found worthy of bei...

Farmers and Settlements

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid
From 4,500 to 5,000 years ago most of Hordaland was a landscape of forest, right out to the coast and the islands. With our inner eye we can see old o...

Skjeggedal

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Selje church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Torkjell Djupedal Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Selje church is a wooden longchurch located north of the Seljesanden beach in the municipality of Selje. The church, with a seating capacity of 500,...

Leikanger church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Torkjell Djupedal Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Leikanger church is a wooden longchurch located in the village of Leikanger on the eastern side of Stadtlandet in the municipality of Selje. The churc...

Kvernhusvågen

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Kåre Ness

Dale power station

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
In 1923 Bergenshalvøens Kommunale Kraftselskap (BKK) expropriated large areas for power plants and development of hydropower started soon afterwards. ...

Lavik

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Karl Egil Johansen
THE LAYMAN CHIEFTAINS FROM LAVIK...

Lussand-roadwork

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
The road along the north side of the Hardanger fjord - between Øystese and Eide in Granvin – was literally built “by hand”. The construction work sta...

Ålmerket

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
LARS KINSARVIK AND TROND LARSSON HUS I stova si på Ålmerket i Kinsarvik dreiv Trond Larsson Hus (1806–1878) i mange år ei blømande handelsverksemd. H...

Støle

People and Society
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
High above the sea and the beach flats, on one of the wide terraces shaped by the sea and the ice, lies the farm Støle (Stødle). The Old Norse name of...

Slåtterøy

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

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Fjelberg

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
The beautiful vicarage on the Fjelberg Island lies a few minutes walk up from the fjord, in a compact enclosure with the church south of the main buil...

Sunde

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Geir Røssland
In 1852 Haktor Thorsen erected two large warehouses on one of his farms in Sunde and started trading and salting herring. This was the start of an ind...

Rød

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
In 1969 Sigurd and Margreta Dønhaug donated a collection of around 170 historical cultural objects to Kvinnherad municipality. They wanted their gift ...

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...

Kvinnherad Church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Liden
The stately Kvinnherad Church with its characteristic profile set out against the mighty Malmangernuten in the background, gives you a rare feeling of...

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...

Årsand

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid
Below a south facing, steep rock at Årsand, there is one of the strangest ancient relics in the whole of Hordaland. The jutting rock wall forms a shal...

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...

Rubbestadneset

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
THE ENGINE FACTORY AT RUBBESTADNESET...

Moster - The old church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Liden
Moster is mentioned as a church site already in the time of Olav Tryggvason. According to the sagas the king is supposed to have laid the foundations ...

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...

Geita lighthouse

People and Society
Fyrlykt / Lighthouse
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Anders Gjerde
On the eastern Geita (literally: the Goat), a small island in the Buefjorden between Aralden and Værlandet, the Geita lighthouse is located. The easte...

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...

Tjernagel

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid
For almost three thousand years Tjernagelshaugen (the Tjernagel cairn) has lain as a landmark at the Bømlo fjord. The poet Torarin mentions the cairn ...

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...

Borgåsen

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid Bjørn Myhre
In Etne there are no less than four defensive refuges. They are all situated in strategic positions, so that they have served as places of refuge and ...

Helgaberget

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid
Helgaberget – the holy hill – is a little rocky crag which thrusts itself a few metres above the terraced surface of Støle. The surface of the rock is...

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...

Vilnes church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Margrethe Henden Aaraas Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Vilnes church is a longchurch built of logs located at Vilnes on the southern tip of the island of Atløy in the municipality of Askvoll. The church wa...

Askvoll church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Margrethe Henden Aaraas Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Askvoll church is a wooden longchurch located in the village of Askvoll. The church has a seating capacity of 425, and it was consecrated on 13 Decemb...

Bulandet 'bedehus' chapel

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Margrethe Henden Aaraas Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Bulandet "bedehus" chapel is an extended "bedehus" built in wood, located on the point of Kjempeneset on the island of Musøya in the municipality of A...

Fitjar - the King's farm

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid
In front of Fitjar Church there is a memorial stone, sculpted by Anne Grimdalen and erected in 1961, for the thousand-year memorial of one of the most...

Rimsvarden

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid
Rimsvarden lies high and unencumbered, an enormous stone mound on the highest top with a wide view of the Fitjar rural community. With its 30 meters a...

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...

Litlabø

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Tore Lande Moe
The first finds of pyrite at Litlabø in Stord came to light in 1864. Forty years later sulphuric ore was mined from an open mine. From 1874 to 1880 it...

Hystad - burial mounds

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid
The biggest collection of prehistoric burial relics in Stord is to be found in Hystadmarka. There are still 16 burial mounds and two stone rings visib...

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...

The Svanøy estate

Gardsbruk / Farm
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Anders Gjerde
Furthest south at the entrance to the Førdefjord, with the Stavfjord to the south and the Brufjord to the north, lies the beautiful and fertile island...

Nordal church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Torkjell Djupedal Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Nordal church is a wooden longchurch located on the farm of Nordalen far to the north-east in the municipality of Flora. The church, which can seat ...

Mjømna church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Margrethe Henden Aaraas Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Mjømna church is a so-called longchurch made of wood situated on the island of Mjømna, in the far western outskirts of the municipality of Gulen. Th...

The trading post of Børholmen

Hamn / Port
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Anders Gjerde
The small island of Børholmen is located on the ocean just to the south of the entrance to the Sognefjord. The islet is located between Kversøy to the...

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,...

Ålfoten church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Margrethe Henden Aaraas Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Ålfoten church is a cog-joint wooden longchurch in the village of Ålfoten in the municipality of Bremanger. The church can seat 100, and it was buil...

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...

The fishing village of Torskangerpollen

Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Hamn / Port
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Anders Gjerde
On the western shores of the island of Vågsøy, in the innermost part of the bay of Kvalheimsvika, where it tapers off and turns south, the fishing v...

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;...

The Church Site at Utvær

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Grend / Hamlet
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Margrethe Henden Aaraas Anders Gjerde
The chapel at Utvær was most likely built some time in the 12th century. It was consecrated to St Clement - the patron saint of sailors - and it wa...

Nord-Vågsøy church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 19.02.2001
Author: Margrethe Henden Aaraas Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Nord-Vågsøy kyrkje is a longchurch built in concrete in the village of Raudeberg in the municipality of Vågsøy. The church, with a seating capacity of...

Sør-Vågsøy church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 19.02.2001
Author: Margrethe Henden Aaraas Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Sør-Vågsøy church is a wooden longchurch located in the municipal centre of Måløy in the municipality of Vågsøy. The church, with a seating capacity o...

Hæreid - archaeology

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid Sigrid H.H. Kaland
The biggest prehistoric burial site in Hordaland is situated at Hæreid. On top of the terrace expanse, inside the fine birch garden, is where they lie...

Totland church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 21.02.2001
Author: Margrethe Henden Aaraas Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Totland church is a wooden longchurch at Indre Totland, in the far eastern part of the municipality of Vågsøy. The church, which can seat 250, was con...

The Church Site at Husøy

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Margrethe Henden Aaraas Anders Gjerde
Husøy chapel was most likely built in the autumn of 1717 or in spring, 1718. At the same time the chapel at Utvær was torn down. The Husøy chapel ¿s...

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...

Gulen church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Margrethe Henden Aaraas Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Gulen church is a so-called longchurch made of wood, situated in the village of Eivindvik. With a seating capacity of 700, the church was consecrated ...

Brekke church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Margrethe Henden Aaraas Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Brekke church is a longchurch built in wood, located in the village of Brekke on the Risnesfjord in the municipality of Gulen. The church has a seat...

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...

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....

Berge

Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Olav Tveiten
Down by the fjord on the farm Berge in Tørvikbygd, is Stekkavika – a sheltered eastward facing harbour, protected against the fjord by headlands and r...

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...

Tangarås

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
From his loft window on the doctor’s farm at Tangarås the young Hans Ernst Kinck had a view of the fjord and the Mauranger mountains. The fjord settle...

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...

Dale farm

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid
The Dale farm lies well situated on the gravel by the river, below the mountain Beitelen. But a few stone throws further north, on the wide expanse be...

Straume - Salmon

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
From times immemorial salmon and trout have been caught with various tools in the fjord and the streams here. Finds in the Stone Age settlements at Sk...

Stamnes

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid Ågot Gammersvik Øystein Jansen

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...

Vangen church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Torkjell Djupedal Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Vangen church is a longchurch built of stone at Aurlandsvangen. The church, in an early Gothic style, is probably built in two turns in the 13th centu...

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 ...

Flåm church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Torkjell Djupedal Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Flåm church is a wooden longchurch from 1670. The church has a seating capacity of 160 and was built by the master builder Magne Essen. This church...

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...

Undredal church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Torkjell Djupedal Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Undredal church is a stave church from the mid-12th century. The church, with a seating capacity of only 40, has since the early 18th century been cla...

Herand - Tveiti sawmill

Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Sverre Haugen Amund Tveiten
Tveiti sawmill in Herand is probably the last water-powered sash-saw in the country that has been in regular operation up to our time. There has been ...

Bakka church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Torkjell Djupedal Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Bakka church is a so-called longchurch made of wood, located in the hamlet of Bakka in the Nærøyfjord. The church, with a seating capacity of 200, was...

Kvilekvål

People and Society
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Johannes Gjerdåker Aslak L.Hellev
The story of Knute Nelson is like the story of Jack the Dullard. From narrow and poor conditions in his home country he worked his way up to become go...

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...

Rekvemylna

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
If you enter the farmyard at Rekve, some kilometres from Bulken, where the road departs to Giljarhus, you no longer meet “the miller”, Knut Hernes, in...

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...

Vangskyrkja

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Lidé
Vangskyrkja (Vangen church) is the largest of the medieval churches in Hordaland; one of the four “fjordung” churches in the county. A royal letter fr...

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...

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...

Vernacular arts and crafts

Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
“Stay in the Peace of the Lord from the evil Eye of Envy as the Envied Earth will not let itself be ploughed. Here I eat my bread here I fear my ...

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...

Holmen

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
HOLMEN AND THE KØLLE FAMILY Holmen lies by the fjord, innermost in Ulvikpollen. Originally this was a small smallholding or coast dweller’s place b...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Orninggård

People and Society
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke

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

Stord Teacher Training College

People and Society
Skule
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
In 1838 Stordøens Seminarium was established by the parish priest Claus H. Daae as head. This was the first seminary in West Norway and likewise one o...

Nordhuglo

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid

Liarbø

Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Arne Tislavoll Ivar Skre

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

The Wiese house at Dombestein

Bolig / Residence
Published: 05.08.2002
Author: Anders Gjerde
The farm Dombestein is located on the southern side of the Nordfjord between Davik and Isane in the Davik parish. Ancient finds show that people hav...

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

Byrknesøy chapel

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Bedehus / Chapel
Published: 27.11.2002
Author: Margrethe Henden Aaraas Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Byrknesøy chapel was originally a "bedehus" (a lay evangelical house) located in the extreme western part of the municipality of Gulen. The chapel, ...

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 ...

Stavang Church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 05.12.2002
Author: Torkjell Djupedal Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Stavang church is a longchurch in brick at Stavang in the municipality of Flora. The church, with a seating capacity of 312, was consecrated on 16 J...

Trellevik

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Åge Landro

Batalden "bedehus" chapel

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Bedehus / Chapel
Published: 05.12.2002
Author: Torkjell Djupedal Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Batalden "bedehus" chapel is an extended "bedehus" built in wood on the island of Fanøya in the municipality of Flora. The "bedehus" chapel, which has...

Risøya

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid

Kvammen chapel

Bedehus / Chapel
Published: 11.12.2002
Author: Margrethe Henden Aaraas Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Kvammen chapel is a local church community centre built in concrete and red brick in the village of Kvammen, on the southern side of the Førdefjord in...

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...

Stongfjorden 'bedehus' chapel

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Bedehus / Chapel
Published: 11.12.2002
Author: Margrethe Henden Aaraas Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Stongfjorden "bedehus" chapel is a rebuilt "bedehus" built in wood. It is situated in the village of Stongfjorden in the municipality of Askvoll. The ...

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...

Værlandet "bedehus" chapel

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Bedehus / Chapel
Published: 11.12.2002
Author: Margrethe Henden Aaraas Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
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Li

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Bremanger church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 18.12.2002
Author: Margrethe Henden Aaraas Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Bremanger church is a longchurch built in wood and located at Hauge, in the innermost part of the bay of Bremangerpollen in the municipality of Brem...

Turøyvarden

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Atle Ove Martinussen

Berle church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 18.12.2002
Author: Margrethe Henden Aaraas Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Berle church is a local church community centre in the village of Berle in the municipality of Bremanger. The church, which can seat 210 persons, wa...

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...

Frøya church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 18.12.2002
Author: Margrethe Henden Aaraas Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Frøya church is a wooden longchurch located at Frøyalandet in the municipality of Bremanger. The church - with a seating capacity of 400 - was conse...

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...

Midtgulen church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 18.12.2002
Author: Margrethe Henden Aaraas Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Midtgulen church is a wooden longchurch located at Kjelkenes, on the mainland part of the municipality of Bremanger. The church, with a seating capa...

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....

Svelgen chapel

Bedehus / Chapel
Published: 18.12.2002
Author: Margrethe Henden Aaraas Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Svelgen chapel is a local church community centre built in concrete in the municipal centre of Svelgen in Bremanger. The chapel - with a seating capac...

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

Holmedal church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 03.09.2002
Author: Margrethe Henden Aaraas Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Holmedal church is a wooden longchurch in the village of Holmedal in the municipality of Askvoll. The church seats 432 and was consecrated on 24 Novem...

Samnøya

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid

Førde church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Margrethe Henden Aaraas Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Førde church is a basilica church in wood located on the farm Skei in the centre of Førde. It has 600 seats and was consecrated on 1 October, 1885 b...

Haukedalen church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Torkjell Djupedal Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Haukedalen church is a basilica church in wood located at the farm of Gjerland in Haukedalen in Førde Municipality. The church, which accommodates 1...

Holsen church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Kyrkje / Church
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Torkjell Djupedal Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde
Holsen church is a basilica church in wood located at Holsen in the municipality of Førde. The church, which accommodates 200 people, was consecrate...

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 ...

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

Finnås rectory

People and Society
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Tore Lande Moe
WOODEN CLOGS AND POTATOES ...