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Seim

People and Society
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Varaldsøy - mining

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
There is still a lot of ore in the abandoned mines on Varaldsøy Island. If today's prices and availability of ore continue, it is doubtful whether the...

Moster amfi

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
THE LIME INDUSTRY IN MOSTER...

Finnås rectory

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

The School

People and Society
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Asbjørn Tveiten
The little white painted school house, the village school, often set between knolls and little woods in the outer fields, placed as centrally as possi...

The Tourists, the Landscape and the Fantasy Hotels

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Randi Bårtvedt Axel Mykleby
Tourist travel in western Norway experienced its great breakthrough with the regular scheduled steamship traffic....

Valestrandsfossen - tanning industry

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Haaland
Valestrand became a centre for the tanning industry in Osterøy; one of the old crafts that has developed into a local industry with many places of wor...

Civil Servants in Small Societies 1650 – 1850

People and Society
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Anne-Hilde Nagel
The white painted Rococo building on Hesthamar, the magistrate’s estate just north of Utne in Hardanger, with its steep, pointed gable roof stands out...

Hordaland – a historic region

People and Society
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Geir Atle Ersland
“It was on such a chilly, silver-grey morning that the Hørde folk, the Harudes of Caesar and Tacitus, must have come running in from the sea on the wi...

Demographic Growth – A Drive to Development

People and Society
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Ståle Dyrvik
The cultural landscape or that part of it which is still green and inviting to the eye has been shaped by the farmers’ toil down through the generatio...

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...

Rubbestadneset

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

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...

Orninggård

People and Society
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...

Onarheim

People and Society
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ernst Berge Drange

Flakka

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Harald Dalland

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...

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...

The Pine Forest, the Sash Saw and the Scots Trade

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Danckert Monrad-Krohn
“THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE 17TH CENTURY” “Rats and Scots are of no use to man nor beast” was a popular saying in Bergen. It reflects the annoyance expres...