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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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Kvalesund

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

Mjånes

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

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

Sundvorøya

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

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...

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...

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...

Søvik

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

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...

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....

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....