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The bailiff farm at Bruland

Gardsbruk / Farm

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Torkjell Djupedal

The bailiff farm at Bruland is held to be one of the best preserved examples of a high-ranking official¿s residence in western Norway. The main buil...

Mjånes

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Magnus Mjånes

Kirkevollen

Bolig / Residence

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Torkjell Djupedal

Kirkevollen is one of two listed public officials' buildings in Førde, the bailiff residence at Bruland being the other. It is beautifully situated at...

Sævareid

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Kåre Engevik

The storehouse at Fletene

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Gardshus / Farm house

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Finn Borgen Førsund

With the year 1524 marked into a log, we have factual evidence for the age of this small house at Fletene at Holsen. Most likely Fletene is also the...

Drageid canal

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Kåre Dalland

The captain farm

Gardsbruk / Farm

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Torkjell Djupedal

Of all the farms at Skei the captain farm Ytre Skei has been owned by public officials, most of them military officers, for the longest uninterrupted ...

The old bank building

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Finn Borgen Førsund

"Gamlebanken" is the popular name of the house which Førde Sparebank (Førde Savings Bank) had built in 1901 and moved into in 1902. Its address is K...

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...

Holmefjord

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Knut Andreas Bergsvik

Even though we know of several hundred burial places from the Stone Age in Hordaland, we do not often hit on the Stone Age Man himself. But there are ...

Samnøya

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

Gullbotnen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Bjørn Moe

A barren belt where almost nothing grows, runs through the forest on the east slope of Gullbotnen. But, along the west side of the main road there is ...

Grasdalen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

MARBLE AND KARST ...

Kvernes

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Bjørn Moe Idar Restad

Håkons Hall, Domkirken Church, Bergen Børs Stock Exchange, Permanenten and other well known buildings in Bergen are decorated with soapstone from Øvre...

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...

Slåttene

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Idar Restad

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...

Frøland

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Arve Tvede Stein Byrkjeland

Much rain, a steep drop and nearness to Bergen meant that the power-making potential of the Samnanger water system was exploited early. Samnanger was ...

Frølandsvatnet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

SONG SWANS IN LAKE FRØLAND ...

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...

Førdehuset community centre

Forsamlingshus / Assembly house

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Finn Borgen Førsund

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Kvitingen

Weather and climate

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Endre Skaar

Few other places in Hordaland, or even the whole country, get as much rain as in the Samnanger mountains. The mountains here simply attract wetness. T...

Lona

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

One does not need much imaginationto see that where the river bends down in Røssebotnen, there has once been a lake. The landscape tells this - more c...

The agricultural school at Mo

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Torkjell Djupedal

The farm Mo became an agricultural school in 1858, and it is now the second oldest agricultural school in the country still in operation. The farm i...

Frøland - Liarostunnel

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

Steinevik

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Møkster - seabirds

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Fish and guests smell after three days, it is said. The cormorants do not need this long. If you follow your nose, the cormorant is not difficult to f...

Møkster - botany

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Anders Lundberg Knut Krzywinski

Møkstrafjordøyane

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Erling Rykkelid

The sea keeps the bedrock in the outer skerries smooth and clean. When the bedrock is also varied and interesting, the setting is perfect for a discov...

Drøna

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Erling Rykkelid

GUEST FROM THE EARTH'S INTERIOR ...

Bekkjarvik

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Road building in Solund - scramble for state road

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

Funds for new public roads were in the 1930s mainly allocated to interior regions and to linking roads. The need for roads in the county of Sogn og Fj...

Eidsbøen

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 ...

The main road at Bremangerlandet

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

A continuous road connection along the Bremangerlandet with ferry across to Måløy came in 1949. In 1977, the island of Frøya was connected to the high...

Lysekloster - Mushroom flora

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Olav Aas

The area around Lysekloster is one of the most popular places in Hordaland for picking mushrooms. The large variety of mushrooms probably stems from t...

Memorial stone at Leikanger church in Selje

People and Society

Monument / Monument

Published: 09.08.2002

Author: Hermund Kleppa

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Sjøbøelva river

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Road between Villevika in Flora and Midtgulen in Bremanger

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

The farms on the mainland between Florø and Midtgulen had to wait for a long time before they got any road. Up until 1993, people in this area did not...

Pøyla

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Anders Lundberg

The road along the fjord between Naustdal and Eikefjord

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

The public road between Naustdal-Vevring-Stavang-Eikefjord was completed section by section, and not without discussions. The road between Stavang and...

Lysekloster - The monks and nature

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Lysekloster was the largest agricultural property in the country when it was phased out during the Reformation in 1537. In its prime this cloister enc...

"Folkelånsvegen" (the people's loan road) - in the connection Askvoll-Førde

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

State road 609 connects the Askvoll peninsula with Førde through Stongfjorden without ferry. The 16-kilometre-long section from Øygard in Førde to Sel...

Ulven

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

In the region of Ulven phyllite occurs with Hordaland's youngest fossils, and a beautiful quartz conglomerate. The phyllite and conglomerate got squee...

Late road connection to the outside world for the industrial town of Svelgen

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

It was the development of hydroelectric power that created the industrial growth in Svelgen from 1914. However, it took a long before any road constru...

Ulvensletta

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Bondevik

The ferries on the Dalsfjord

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...

Ulvenvatnet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Lake Ulvenvatnet is thought to be the most species rich wetlands in the municipality. Despite this, the area is not protected, nor is it likely ever t...

Villelia

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Oselva

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland Arve Tved

Oselvo is the biggest waterway on the Bergen peninsula, with sources in Gullfjellet and Sveningen. There is a fall of only 60 metres along the entire ...

Søfteland

Weather and climate

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Kåre Utaaker

If you drive between Søfteland and Ulven on a clear spring morning, or an evening in late autumn, you are advised to be careful on the turns. The temp...

The road Oppedal-Instefjord - an important part of the main road network

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

The road construction between Instefjord and Oppedal was an important link in the so-called Coastal Highway between Stavanger, Bergen and Ålesund, the...

Os valley

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

Yellow central road stripe between the two Sunnfjord cities

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

In the summer of 2005, the Minister for Transport Torild Skogsholm opened the section Storebru-Knapstad on highway (RV) 5 between Førde and Florø. Thi...

Raudlia

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Kvalesund

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Døso

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

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid Gerd Bolstad Tor Lunde

Os rectory

Settlements, Villages, Towns

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

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

Eikelandsosen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

"So many and such big potholes as are found at Eikelandsosen, we don't see other places in western Norway, and as beautifully polished as the mountain...

Hopslia

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Some of the giant trees in Hopslia north of Holme Fjord are as much as thirty metres high. Elm and ash are the most common, basswood somewhat rarer. R...

Dalskarvatnet–Dyvikvågen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Bjørn Neumann

Many of the fossils one finds on Stord are related to fossils of the same age found in North America. Scientists thinks this indicates that the bedroc...

Sævarhagsvikjo

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Most of the shoreline toward the sea in Sunnhordland is stony and steep. Therefore, flat tidal areas are scarce, yet these are especially important fo...

Hystad - the black alder forest

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth Anders Lundberg Stein Byrkjelan

One of the biggest black alder forests in the country is in Hystadmarkjo. Along the well prepared trail through the forest you can experience an excep...

Hovaneset

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

PURPLE SAXIFRAGE - A TYPICAL MOUNTAIN PLANT - BY THE SEA ...

Ådlandsvatnet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Stein Byrkjeland

Plants that grow in and beside water have to be prepared for marked and rapid changes in their living conditions. They must be able to tolerate living...

Tveitavatnet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

It is difficult to imagine that a plant can grow at the same place for many thousands of years: Climate and local environment change. Different specie...

Iglatjødno

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Digernes

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland Bjørn Moe

Despite the fact that the animal life on Stord is better investigated and studied than most other places in Hordaland, we were not clear about the div...

Storsøya Island

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

On Storsøya Island, English ivy grows nearly everywhere. It creeps along the ground and climbs all the way to the top of the tree trunks. Together wit...

Brandvikneset

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Per Harald Salvesen

ENGLISH YEW TREE FOREST AT BRANDVIKNESET ...

Huglo

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Inge Aarseth Anders Lundberg

The majority of Huglo is bare rock. A bit of dwarf pine forest is the only vegetation able to put down roots. Along the west- and east sides, to the c...

Tveit Mine

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Øystein Jansen

Fitjarøyane

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Inge Aarseth

If we study the group of islands south of Selbjørns Fjord from the air or on a sea map, we will notice that many of the islands are elongated and lie ...

Engesundsvatnet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Fitjar - potatoes

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

The deep agricultural soils in Fitjar are found especially in the area between Lake Storavatnet and Breivika. The many stonewalls in the area reflect ...

Finnås

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

At Flintaneset by Finnåsvika, in the centre of the municipality, we find the most beautiful and best preserved igneous rocks in western Norway. We mus...

Road between Askvoll and Stongfjorden

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

Stongfjorden was one of the first industrial villages in the county of Sogn og Fjordane, with the first aluminium plant in Scandinavia. The industrial...

Siggjo

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

Siggjo is a cone-shaped, volcano-like mountaintop in the part of Hordaland where one finds the best preserved volcanic rocks. The rock types originate...

Moster

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Urangsvågen-Rubbestadneset

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

In 1868 the first stone workers came to Rubbestadneset to take out the granite for the Skoltegrunns Pier, predecessor of the Skoltegrunns wharf in Ber...

Finnås rectory

People and Society

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Tore Lande Moe

WOODEN CLOGS AND POTATOES ...

Kattnakken–Stovegolvet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

The highest mountainous area on Stord, including Kattnakken, Midtfjellet and Stovegolvet, has more in common with the mountainous terrain on the mainl...

Børtveit

Weather and climate

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Endre Skaar

Børtveit is known to be a place with a lot of rain. We must go to Samnanger or Indre Matre to find a higher rainfall. The average rainfall on Børtveit...

Sparebanken Sogn og Fjordane

Forretningsbygg / Commercial building

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Finn Borgen Førsund

Starting in the 1960s, comprehensive mergers of banks into larger units have taken place. This process started only in the 1970s in the county of So...

Glesvær

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

He wondered, surely, the fisherman who in 1769 found a 3.3 metre-long silvery shining sea creature at Glesvær. Perhaps he hadn't heard the legend abou...

Sogn og Fjordane central county hospital

Sjukehus / Hospital

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Finn Borgen Førsund

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Vatlestraumen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

There are coal bits hidden in the sand under Vatlestraumen. These remains from a geological layer from the Jurassic Period were discovered when the un...

Firda - the local newspaper for the whole county

Dialects and arts

Avis / Newspaper

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Torkjell Djupedal

The newspaper Firda is today by far the biggest newspaper in the county, and the only daily. The circulation in 2000 was 14,628. The newspaper cover...

Litlesotra

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

CORAL REEFS ...

Fjell river network

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Geir H.Johnsen

There are many river networks out by the coast and they tend to be small and unassuming. The farmer has relied upon the watercourses to run his mill a...

Løno

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...

The Hess family business at Buskøy

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

The old patrician seat of Buskøy, with a trade and inn-keeping license from 1705, has been the home of several enterprising and successful people. For...

Haganes

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Inge Aarseth

The gneiss landscape west and north of Bergen viewed in profile can remind us of a saw blade of the kind that has long, slanted sides that get broken ...

Ågotnes - crystals

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

Road cuts and blast areas are a joy to rock collectors, even if the disturbance to nature is ever so disfiguring. These are the best kinds of places t...

Ågotnes - Stonechat

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Tjeldstømarka

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland Nils Georg Brekke

There is no place in Hordaland where there are so many over-wintering song swans as in Tjeldstømarka. And there are few places in the county that have...

Skogsøyna

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

There isn't much forest on Skogsøyna today, but that there is, has been planted. There is not much wildlife, either. But, quite a lot of birds pass by...

Blomvågen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Jan Mangerud

"One of the big scientific sensations", was the title in the Bergens Times newspaper on the 22nd of November, 1941. It was the geologist Isal Undås wh...

Turøyvegen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

The earthquake was caused by movements along fault zones in the bedrock where the blocks of rock chafed against each other. In Devonian time, there we...

Fossen Bratte

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

The steep drop by Fossen cliff has been the biggest challenge for those who wished to make a road over Kvamskogen through the years. Leave the car by ...

Herdla – glacial deposits

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth Haakon Fossen

The shift in the landscape is striking between the barren craggy moors north on Askøy and the green fields of Herdla, which has the county's biggest f...

Sjøahola

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Torkjell Djupedal

Sjøahola is the name of the first built-up area in Førde, and throughout several centuries it was the centre of the community, of communication, com...

Herdla - botany

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

The boat stop Steinen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Finn Borgen Førsund

Steinen became the port of call for Førde. Several activities grew up here, for example the first manufacturing industries. Yet, like so many other bo...

Firda Billag

Billag / Bus company

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Finn Borgen Førsund

Firda Billag is the biggest automobile company in the county of Sogn og Fjordane. It is owned by 13 municipalities and has its headquarters in Førde...

Herdla - Migrating birds

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Bergen folk landed on it, long and well. The Germans took it over, during the Second World War. The birds had been doing it for several thousands of y...

The composer Johannes Haarklou

Musikk / Music Musikkverk / Musical work Person / Person

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Finn Borgen Førsund

Johannes Haarklou (1847 - 1925) won for himself a prominent position in Norwegian music in the period 1880 - 1925. He was a composer, a music review...

Herdleflaket

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Spring, summer and autumn, there is bird life on Valen, and the tidal zone is especially attractive. Out on Herdlaflaket, you see ducks and other divi...

The author Kristian Elster the Elder

Person / Person

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Finn Borgen Førsund

Kristian Mandrup Elster (1841-1881) was the first of four authors whose background was in the senior public official environment in Førde, and who a...

Ask - jordbær

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth Haakon Fossen

Strawberry-growing on Askøy flourished in the beginning of the last century. When gardener Samson Eik took in the type "Seierherren" from Rosendal in ...

The author Ole Wilhelm Fasting

Person / Person

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Finn Borgen Førsund

Ole Wilhelm Fasting (1852-1915) was a vicar's son from Førde. He was an engineer, and worked for many years at Bergens Tekniske Skole (school of eng...

The author Kristian Elster the Younger

Person / Person

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Finn Borgen Førsund

Kristian Elster the Younger (1881-1947) had deep roots in the upper public officials circle in Førde. Evidence of this can be found in his writings....

Kollevågen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

From 1938 until 1975 there was a large amount of trash dumped in Kollevågen. A lot of the garbage from the city of Bergen ended up here. The dump was ...

Hanøy

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

At Kong Olav V's Place in Bergen, one finds stone from Hanøy. Together with Sima-granite from Eid Fjord, it decorates the city floor around "The Blue ...

Golta - Gneiss

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Inge Aarseth

Over thousands of years, autumn storms and strong land-driving winds have cleaned the bare rocks of Golta. The waves can beat far in over land and mak...

The altarpiece in Førde church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Kyrkjekunst / Church art Måleri / Painting

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde

Quite a few people have become interested in the altarpiece in Førde church once they have seen it. It is unique, rich in motif, fine in the carving...

Golta - Pygmy willow

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Spildepollen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

The oceanic crust of the North Sea was subjected to a lot of stretching both in Permian and Triassic times, and later in the Jurassic. This stretching...

The Sivle memorial at Flåm

Monument / Monument

Published: 25.04.2002

Author: Hermund Kleppa

A number of memorial stones for the author Per Sivle have been erected, - on his grave in Drammen, at Stalheim, at Voss and at Elverum. In Aurland t...

Kalandsvika

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland Bjørn Moe

There is little to say about the opportunity for surveying from the bird observation tower in Kalandsvika: 155 different bird species have been sighte...

Bergenhus

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

FROM CASTLE TO FORTIFICATION ...

Korskirken

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Loen church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Kyrkje / Church

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Margrethe Henden Aaraas Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde

Loen church is an octagonal wooden church situated on a hill overlooking the village of Loen. The church has a seating capacity of 190, and was consec...

Domkirken

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Klosteret

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Stadsporten

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

The old Olden church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Kyrkje / Church

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Margrethe Henden Aaraas Sigurd Vengen Anders Gjerde

The old Olden church is a wooden cruciform church located on the site called "Sjøatunet" in the village of Olden in the municipality of Stryn. The chu...

Fjøsanger road

Livelihood and Craftsmanship

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Troldhaugen

Dialects and arts

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Store Milde

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

When the merchant Henrich Henrichsen Weinwich bought the property at Store Milde in 1723, he probably rebuilt the entire, or parts of the main house s...

Munkebotn

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Garnes

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Mannseidet - royal road and national cultural site

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

In former days travelling along the Norwegian coast took mostly place on sea. The old roads across the strips of land called Mannseidet and Dragseidet...

Fantoft Stave Church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

When a new church was to be built at Fortun in Sogn in 1883, the old stave church was in danger of being demolished. During the years after J.C.Dahl t...

Kyrkjebyrkjeland

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

The "Trondhjemske" postal road in Gulen

Published: 26.09.2005

Author: Kristin Ese

The postal road in Gulen was formerly a part of the "Trondhjemske" postal road. In 1868, the road was no longer used as a postal road as the post was ...

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...

The Royal Postal Road Bleiklindi - Styvi in the Nærøyfjord

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

The present main road between Oslo and Bergen follows more or less the same route as the old postal roads did. However, from Lærdal it no longer follo...

The bedrock of western Norway

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

Much is hidden from us, but we know some of the main features in the history behind the different rock types and minerals that surround us. The Hordal...

The Precambrian Era and Precambrian basement rocks

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

Almost nothing is as solid, unchangeable and stable as the Norwegian Precambrian basement rocks. Here, there are no volcanic eruptions or violent eart...

Hordaland as high as the Himalayas - the Caledonian mountain chain

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

The Himalaya Mountain Chain is being formed by the Indian continental plate colliding w the Asian continent. This happens because the earth’s continen...

The mountain chain disappears – and the dinosaurs arrive!

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

The Caledonian mountain chain is an example of how plate movements and continental drift can cause collisions and the upheaval of huge mountain chains...

Stone quarry in Hordaland

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Øystein J. Jansen

Hordaland has been through several "Stone Ages". The first was in the real Stone Age, with Bømlo as its centre. Hard stone as tools and weapons was th...

Mining in Hordaland

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Øystein J. Jansen

Ølve has the oldest known mines in Hordaland. In 1642, privilege was granted by the king to build an iron works in Jernsmuget on the property of Lille...

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...

Bjellandsvatnet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Lake Bjellandsvatnet is one of the richest wetland areas in Sveio. But, everything has its limit, and the supply of nutrients can be too much. This is...

Hopsfjellet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Stein Byrkjeland

On June 2nd, 1992, a big forest fire broke out in Sveio. The fire started southeast of Hopsfjellet. In a strong wind the flames spread quickly northwa...

Einstapevoll - slates

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

“On the country of Wallestrand…the rock almost everywhere appears to be of a slate-like substance, be it at the seashore, on the farms or in their dis...

Straumen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

Osa

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Espen Eide

At the bottom of the Osa fjord there is a cultural landscape marked by great contrasts; the wide terraces and the river delta at the fjord contrast wi...

Bergensbanen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Aslak T.Helleve Atle Ove Martinussen

Already at the beginning of the 1870s demands were made that there had to be a railway connection between Bergen and East Norway. The first section be...

Frøystein

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

The farm Frøystein by the Ulvik fjord is commonly called Fryste. In 1614 the name was written Frøstemb – an obvious Danish influence – and the form Fr...

The Losna knights - important men in our national history

People and Society

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

During the 1300s and the 1400s, Losna was the seat and the base of one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in the country. A good nose for fi...

Hellisøy

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Hellisøy lighthouse was lit for the first time in 1855. The characteristic red cast-iron tower with two white belts is 33m high and a light height of ...

Vinappen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Vinappen lies on a low hill to the very west on the island. Here you have an amazing panorama of the sea. Originally the area was grazing land for cat...

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...

Kongstun

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

In the Middle Ages the farmers were under obligation to transport state officials. The bishops were entitled to 18 horses when they travelled about on...

Øvre Folkedal

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Folkedal, which today is like a small “detour” from the main highway, was in the Middle Ages centrally situated in one of the most important roads bet...

Matrehola

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Knut Andreas Bergsvik

On a large gravel terrace in Matredalen (the Matre valley), a couple of kilometres from the coastal settlement Matre, lies Storseterhilleren, at the e...

Hummelfossen

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

As early as 1906 the Matre and Haugsdal waterway was bought up by the businessman Blauuw from Bergen; the first “waterfall speculator” in the Matre ar...

Botnen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Fyksesundet and Botnagrenda present a fine experience of the landscape and cultural history; a geographically isolated local settlement with extensive...

Mollandseid

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Aud Karin Skagen

In Mollandsvågen, close by the river that runs from Mollandsvatnet (lake) into the fjord, are two water-powered circular saws and a mill. This small i...

Havrå

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

In the sunny, steep fjord landscape along Sørfjorden on the east side of Osterøy is the farm Havrå. The small “hamlet” is one of the few undisturbed f...

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...

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...

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...

Otterstad

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Tthe Otterstad farms lie in the innermost part of Mofjorden, on the northwest side of the river. The row of stave-built boatsheds that belong to the f...

Nottveit

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

In one of the frame-built haysheds at Nottveit, at holding No. 3, we discover that several of the staves have a medieval look, with large dimensions a...

Stølsheimen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Dagfinn Moe Aud Karin Skagen Nils Georg Brekke

The large mountain area between Modalen, the Voss communities and Sogn is one of the finest mountain pasture areas in West Norway. In older times this...

Øystese - Kvam rural museum

Museums, nature conservation, cultural heritage

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

KVAM RURAL MUSEUM ...

Norheim

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Norheim, “the farm by the narrow sound” is mentioned in a diploma from the Middle Ages and in an inheritance document. This is one of the large farms ...

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...

Vangdal

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid Nils Georg Brekke

At Salthamaren in Vangdalsberget it is thought that salt was burned some time in history, and deep layers of coal in the ground show that fire has bee...

Skålafjøro

Livelihood and Craftsmanship

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

THE SHIPYARD AT SKÅLAFJØRO...

The Inner Sogn Automobile Company 1916-1933 - Car services in the inner Sogn area

Billag / Bus company

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

In 1916, the first company was established for car services in the municipalities of Sogndal, Hafslo, Luster and Jostedalen. At first the car services...

Gjerde

Settlements, Villages, Towns

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...

Gjuvsland

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Mary Losvik Nils Georg Brekke

For time immemorial, probably all the way back to the Middle Ages, animals from the Homestead at Gjuvsland have grazed on the sunny slopes on the sout...

Gildrehola

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Erik Lauritzen

Møkjedalen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

NORWAY'S BIGGEST YEW TREE ...

Ølve - Mining

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

All in all there are ten known copper mines and two iron mines on the Ølve peninsula. Geologically, the nine mines on Varaldsøy Island also should be ...

Ølveshovda

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Ølve

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

Ølve has a special soil type. Here one finds an extra hard clay soil. This is especially noticed by those who work with excavating for building foun...

Bondhusdalen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Atle Nesje J. Riis-Simonsen

The Bondhus area in Maruanger has been a magnet for tourists ever since the stream of tourists to Norway's west coast began in the middle of the 1800s...

Ænesdalen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

Even far down in the denst forest in Ænesdalen valley the precipitous and mighty Gygrastolen watches over you. Ænesdalen is not the easiest route in t...

Melderskin

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Atle Nesje Endre Skaar

MELDERSKIN - ONCE A NUNATAK? Melderskin, the towering and majestic landmark at Rosendal, rises 1462 metres above sea level. The top area is smooth,...

Ulvanosa

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

Some mountains have rounded shapes, while others have steep slopes and sharp edges. Ulvanosa (1246 mos.) has both. The forms reflect the type of bedro...

Langhaugane

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

THE MORAINE RIDGES AT LANGHAUGANE ...

Road from Florø

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

Florø was founded in 1859, and was for close to 150 years the only city in the county of Sogn og Fjordane. What was highly unusual was the fact that t...

Ingahogg

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Øystein Jansen

At nearly 1000 metres over sea level, on the north side of INGAHOGG mountain, the remains of a soapstone quarry have been discovered. It is said, acco...

Skorpo

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

Skorpo - Polished by glaciers and meltwater ...

Halsnøy

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

Hadde ikkje Hardangerfjordbreen mot slutten av istida rykt fram over fjordbotnen, ville Halsnøy ikkje eksistert som éi øy, men som mange småøyar. Bree...

The Ancient Ash Tree

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Holmedalsberget

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

If you want to be on your own for a long day in a magnificent deciduous forest in demanding terrain, then HOLMESDALSBERGET is the right place. This is...