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The struggle for bridge across the Dalsfjord

Bru / Bridge
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Kristin Ese
The Dalsfjord bridge has been the most hotly debated communications project in the county and has led to bitter political controversy. The start was t...

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...

The road connection Værlandet-Bulandet

Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Kristin Ese
The archipelago of Værlandet - Bulandet consists of the area to the west of the Aldefjord. In 1981, Askvoll municipality forwarded a suggestion for a ...

The ferries on the Dalsfjord

Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Kristin Ese
Long before the heated debates about a bridge across the Dalsfjord, there was conflict about roads across and around the Dalsfjord. The roads had to w...

Anna Karina Stang

Musikk / Music Musikkverk / Musical work Person / Person
Published: 28.09.1999
Author: Liv Fridtun (1970 - )
Anna Stang (1899-1996) is a fine representative of the singing tradition in the western Sunnfjord district. Her repertoire was varied and comprised di...

The Bakkejekta sloop

Communications
Båt / Boat Hamn / Port Handel / Trade
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Gaute Losnegård
To commemorate a time when all transport of goods between the Dalsfjorden and Bergen went by sea on vessels powered by the wind, the Bakkejekta sloop ...

Menhir at Holmedal

Historisk monument / Historical monument
Published: 02.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
In the summer of 1999 Harald Bakke from Holmedal rescued a menhir from ending up at the bottom of the sea. The stone had lain in the pebbles, and ...

Memorial stone for the brothers Asbjørn and Vemund Melvær

Monument / Monument
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
Magnus and Marie Melvær lost their two sons during the war 1940-1945. Asbjørn, born 1908, died in captivity in Germany. Vemund, born 1922, was los...

Klausen Mekaniske Verksted Ltd.

Skipsverft / Ship yard
Published: 14.09.2001
Author: Finn Borgen Førsund
The business at Bøvika was established by Jørgen Klausen in 1948. His brother Olav joined later, and became the manager. Until 1980, the operation w...

Cannery at Sauesund

Fabrikk / Factory
Published: 01.10.2001
Author: Finn Borgen Førsund
The production of canned crab on the Sogn og Fjordane coast was started and had the largest volumes at Askvoll. Crab fishing is also rich in this di...

Løkeland cannery at Atløy

Fabrikk / Factory
Published: 01.10.2001
Author: Finn Borgen Førsund
The business was established by Sigurd Løkeland in 1922. Its principal product has been canned crab, au naturel or as paste. Until the 1960s, ca...

Father and son Bakke - prominent liberals from Holmedal

Person / Person
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Gaute Losnegård
During the second half of the 1800s, there was a large-scale rise in Norwegian national culture and intellectual life, and at the head were the "rad...

The great transformation in Stongfjorden

Fabrikk / Factory
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Gaute Losnegård
Stongfjorden was one of the first industrial sites in Norway, and its aluminium plant was the first in Scandinavia....

The mines at Grimelia

Gruve / Mine
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Finn Borgen Førsund
In June 1759, "Grimmeliens Kobberværk" was given royal privilege to run mining operations within a radius of about 20 kilometers. This included Sørd...

Trollefos Uldvarefabrik

Fabrikk / Factory
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Gaute Losnegård
For more than thirty years the Trollefossen waterfall on the farm of Engjabøen at Holmedal provided the woollen mill by the same name with electric ...

Helle Teglverk

Fabrikk / Factory
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Finn Borgen Førsund
From the 1890s until around 1920, the old municipality of Fjaler was the most industrialized of the municipalities in the county of Sogn og Fjordane...

Vårdal teglverk

Fabrikk / Factory
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Finn Borgen Førsund
From the 1890s until around 1920, the old municipality of Fjaler was the most industrialized of the municipalities in the county of Sogn og Fjordane. ...

Exciting history in a closed-down school building

Skule / School
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Gaute Losnegård
The closed-down school building at Holevik at Staveneset has been changed into a museum where the main theme is World War II. ...

The inn at Sauesund

Losji / Accommodation
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Anders Gjerde
Sauesund, like most places with an inn, is situated on a sound. The old inn is at Atløy, in the municipality of Askvoll, with a view across the narr...

The trading post of Kjempenes

Hamn / Port
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Anders Gjerde
Bulandet is situated on the ocean westernmost in the municipality of Askvoll, comprising ten small islands. The trading post of Kjempenes, where the...