Historical monument Archives

Bronnoya lime kiln

On Brønnøya we can today see remains of lime kilns and extraction of lime. Three lime kilns have been registered on the island, in addition to the fact that the area bears the mark of lime mill operations. The largest lime kiln can be seen in Sandbukta, where it rises majestically only five meters from the Oslo Fjord.

The lime kiln at Sandbukta was built in 1874. It is square, built of stone and built with lime. The oven is in good condition, although the individual places are slightly cracked. The lime kiln is only five meters from the sea. Today, both the kiln construction and the associated ramp on the slope behind are protected.

Jacobine the ferry woman

She was widowed at just 38 years old with eight children to feed, she had to earn money, because she was too proud to accept from the "poor coffers". She braved storms and gales and rowed in all kinds of weather for over 40 years to transport all those who needed to get across the sound. The fjord was the most important shipping artery at that time. She connected Akershus and Buskerud by ferry connection.

The price was 25 øre one way. After a few years, she went up to fifty cents. She rowed with firm tacks the doctor, midwife and priest from Drøbak to Hurum to needy patients, as well as the painter Christian Krohg. The ferrywoman made such a big impression on the painter that he both painted her and made a statue that is located in Drøbak.

The few times Jacobine didn't dare to go out – no one dared to make the trip.

The historic Eidsvoll – Sundgata 16- Blomsterurne

Camilla Wergeland was born in Kristiansand on 23 January 1813.

When her father Nicolai Wergeland got the position of parish priest in Eidsvoll in 1817, the family moved to the vicarage.

Camilla grew up here, as the second youngest in a group of five siblings. Camilla's childhood was carefree and happy. She was good at walking on stilts, and could even walk stairs on stilts! She enjoyed dressing up and doing theater. She could be quite wild, and together with her siblings she was allowed to express herself freely in the nature around the home. Here they balanced on the railing of the bridge over the Andelva, and they coal sailed on the Vorma.

During her teenage years, Camilla alternated between a quiet life at home and hectic weeks of social life visiting friends in Christiania. At home, she spent much of her time reading, or going on horse-riding trips. She loved to ride and spent a lot of time on horseback around Eidsvoll. She was also visited by friends and together they roamed the landscape around the vicarage, which consisted of gardens, paths, gazebos and hiding places.

Camilla received more education than was usual for girls of the time. She was homeschooled with her siblings, and three years of schooling. The young Camilla was beautiful and talented, and gained entry into fashionable circles both at home and abroad. She received several marriage offers, but Camilla refused.

She didn't want a marriage of convenience, she wanted to marry for love. It was not until 1838, when she was 25, that she met Jonas Collett, who was to become her husband. They married on 14 July 1841 in Eidsvoll church, and settled behind the castle in Christiania.

Camilla is considered Norway's first feminist, and is one of Norway's greatest and most important writers. She made her debut as a writer in 1842, but her greatest work was not published until 1854. Amtmandens Døttre was Norway's first socially critical novel. It was published anonymously, as was the custom for the few female writers at this time, but there was little doubt as to who was behind it. Over time, Camilla consolidated her position in Norwegian literature, and she published her works under her own name.

After her husband's death in 1851, Camilla lived a restless existence, moving from town to town in Europe, often with a couple of her sons in tow. She lived at home for certain periods, and often visited Eidsvoll, but never for long at a time.

She managed to make a living as a writer, but it was a poor existence. In 1862, the autobiographical memoir I de lange Nætter appeared. This book, together with her diary notes and letters, has been an important source of knowledge about Camilla's upbringing, and the rest of the Wergeland family's time, at Eidsvoll rectory.

Camilla never forgot that she was a Wergeland. When she died aged 82 in 1895, she was cremated at her own request, and the urn was placed in the grave of Jonas Collett at Vår Frelser's cemetery. The grave is just a few steps from her brother Henrik Wergeland's tombstone, and is simply marked "Camilla Collett f. Wergeland".

The oven museum at Bærums Verk

The styles and designs shown strech from the baroque periode in the 1700´s up to the end of production in 1964. Bærums Verk produced the cast iron bridge "Løkke Bro" in Sandvika also know as "Claude Monets Bridge" which figures in his paintings from when the artist visited Sandvika.

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The historic Eidsvoll – Vormavegen 1 – Brandtgården

Henrik Wergeland (1808-1845) was the most important and colorful cultural personality in Norway in the first half of the 19th century. He was born in Kristiansand and lived his first childhood there, and he lived most of his short life in Christiania (Oslo).

Nevertheless, he considered Eidsvoll his home village, where he developed a close relationship with the people and nature. The family moved here when his father became parish priest in Eidsvoll in 1817, and here Henrik spent long periods both while he went to school and studied in the town, and after he had finished his education, but did not get a priest's position.

Henrik Wergeland was primarily a poet. He wrote constantly, and there were thousands of printed pages: poems, plays, historical books and booklets, information leaflets, newspaper articles and debate posts – just about every type of text except novels. Everything is not gold, but among the best are some of the finest poems written in Norwegian. Henrik wrote verses on all kinds of subjects: happy and unhappy love, friendship, illness and death, politics, religion and not least nature:

Few, if any, writers in the world have names of more plant species in their texts. His father, Nicolai, had helped write the Constitution during the National Assembly at Eidsvoll in 1814. For Henrik, it was a main task to contribute to building the new Norway, with political freedom, national independence and its own literature and culture. He was an ardent patriot, as it was called. That is why he was eager to make the Eidsvoll building a national cultural monument and to make 17 May a public holiday.

The children also had to go along: "We are a nation, we together, we little ones a cubit long." But Wergeland was also concerned with the fight for freedom in other countries around the world. Wergeland was often enraged when he saw injustice. He scolded rich and powerful men who he believed treated poor people badly, also here in Eidsvoll. It led to many and lengthy court cases that almost ruined the poet. Another thing that angered him was animal cruelty. Henrik was one of the first in our country to fight for animal rights, including in the poem "Cast off, where the hill is too steep" and in "Veslebrunen's speech to humanity in humanity". Weslebrunen was the horse of Wergeland.

Henrik Wergeland was deeply religious, and he was a strong supporter of freedom for all religions. They were true in their own way and deserved respect. The constitution, of which Henrik was otherwise so proud, among other things denied Jews entry to Norway, and therefore he wanted the Storting to change that section.

It succeeded, but only after Henrik Wergeland died, aged just 37. With Nicolai, his wife Alette and their five children, a completely unusual family came to Eidsvoll.

Henrik became the great poet and the center of many kinds of debates, with both friends and enemies in large numbers. The sister Camilla wrote the first modern novel in Norwegian literature and was the one who first raised the fight for women's rights in Norway. The memory of both is still alive in the village. The quote has been chosen by Geir Uthaug.

Atlungstad Brenneri

Aquavit in our hearts

Atlungstad Brenneri is an historic distillery in a beautiful location by the edge of Mjøsa in Stange Vestbygd, 5 km south of Hamar. It was established as a cooperative by farmers in Stange in 1855, and has over the years produced aquavit, punch, and other types of liquor. The distillery is still in operation for parts of the year, and makes potato spirit from mid-September to mid-October.

Atlungstad Brenneri hosts a range of cultural events and seminars, and is open for guided tours from around 20 June to 20 October. After the guided tour, there is an opportunity to taste the aquavit.

Own restaurant

In the distillery’s own restaurant, Spiseriet, visitors are treated to unique food and drink experiences, with aquavit spices as a recurring theme throughout the meal. Dishes are based on regional produce, and are prepared by chefs with a love for local ingredients and Norwegian food culture. The restaurant has 60 seats indoors and 120 seats outdoors, and is open all year round.

Groups

Atlungstad Brenneri is the ideal venue for meetings, seminars, and functions. Join us on a journey back in time, and explore an important part of our cultural history. Guided tours are available on Saturdays at 14:00. Advance booking is recommended. Group guided tours for minimum 10 people are available on request. There are various packages to choose from, with a duration ranging from 45 to 90 minutes.

Atlungstad Brenneriet is a stop along the Skibladner route, and the White Swan of Mjøsa calls at the Skibladner quay at Atlungstad every Sunday during the season.

For timetables, please see: https://www.skibladner.no/hjem

Rødtangen Bedehus

The prayer house at Rødtangen is a memorial from a time when religious activity was central among most people.

In Hurum, the "free church", i.e. congregations outside the Church of Norway, was strong in the 1800s and 1900s. The proportion of inhabitants who were members of other churches was at the top of the country, in the Holmsbu area it applied to almost one in three inhabitants. The free evangelical congregations gathered many, but even the Mormons (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) came to Holmsbu and baptized people in the Drammensfjord. One of their leaders was fined by the Supreme Court for harmful activities after cutting a hole in the ice to carry out the baptism of five new members in February.

At first, religious meetings often took place in homes, but as the congregations grew, so did the need for separate meeting rooms. The first to be built was the prayer house in Holmsbu, then came the prayer house at Rødtangen in 1909. The local women's association was behind it, and this prayer house had a Lutheran profile, but with freer forms of meeting than the church's services. Sunday school and collections for missionary work were also held here, and much of the activity took place on weekdays, when the churches were closed anyway. It says something about the commitment that the prayer house was built in a place with such a small crowd. Rødtangen was at its highest in 1930 with 148 inhabitants, today there are about 40 permanent residents here.

Today, most of this business has been closed down, and the houses of worship have been sold as private homes or for other purposes. Like the prayer house at Rødtangen, which is now a community house for the entire population, owned by the Rødtangen permanent residents' association. With art exhibitions and cultural activities, this has also become a cultural center that attracts tourists and visitors who do not parish to Rødtangen.The same applies to the village's oldest prayer house, in Holmsbu, which is privately owned and lent out for events and exhibitions under the name "bdhuset".

The historic Eidsvoll – Sundgata10 – Baptist church

You like to call the house the Baptist Church, but the House of Prayer has also been used, especially by older people.

The house was originally set up by Ole Larsen as the Ebenezer prayer house on Sundtangen in 1894. The house was moved to its current location in 1928. The Baptist church property was registered at Oslo Baptistmenighet Tabernaclet in 1926, and after the move from Sundtangen, the premises were inaugurated on 25 November 1928. It was not until 1963 that the property was registered at Eidsvoll Baptistmenighet, which became independent in 1942.

Lower Ramme – Villa Munch

Edvard Munch bought the property Nedre Ramme as a 47-year-old in 1910 and owned it all his life until his death in 1944. Munch spent a lot of time abroad in the period 1890-1909. After many years of an unhealthy lifestyle, he entered Dr. Jacobsen's clinic in Copenhagen in 1908. In 1909, a competition was announced to decorate the University's banquet hall. Munch probably had the competition for the Hall Decorations in mind when he returned to Norway that same year. He found the first motifs at Skrubben in Kragerø, while at Ramme the artist found the motifs for Forskerne and Alma Mater. They both show a mother with an infant in her arms, with several children playing and exploring around her. Alma Mater, like History and the Sun, became one of three main fields for the Aula decorations. The Alma Mater motif was one of those that Munch rehearsed and worked on the most. His latest version is from 1940. At Nedre Ramme, Munch had a large outdoor studio set up, as well as a printing press on the second floor of the building.

At Ramme, Munch sought proximity to nature, animals, sunlight and the sea. Surrounded by the sea and the forest, together with his animals and helpers, he created beautiful works with motifs of bathers and sun worshippers, people and animals in rural settings. In several of the motifs, you can easily recognize the area's rocky and coastal landscape in a vitalist style. The area and the models were rendered with the artist's modern and bold brushstrokes and sure lines. The motifs became lush, full of life and colour. Then he also wrote himself that he had found the most beautiful property along the Kristiania fjord.

"In Munch's footsteps"
The Framework Foundation for Art, Culture and Nature, together with the Sparebank Foundation and Vestby Municipality, has created a cultural trail on the property, where you can discover Munch's motifs placed in the natural landscape where they belong. You can walk this when you want on your own, and be inspired by the site-specific art on a total of 11 signs along the paths. There is a main information sign up in the forest behind Villa Munch, and the cultural trail ends at Rammelabben with the statue of "Solveig with the apple". It was created by the artist Peter Linde.

Villa Munch
The house was fully renovated in 2023 and can be rented out in its entirety. There are four double rooms with attached bathrooms, several living rooms and kitchens. To see the house indoors, you can book a tour with one of Ramme's tour guides. In Munch's living rooms, they scratched their way to the original color of the walls, and the characteristic yellow color can be found again in three of his self-portraits from his time at Ramme. The house is decorated with copies of his famous Hvitsten works. Munch's fruit and vegetable garden has been recreated, and a small French culture garden has been created that links the property to Havlystparken.

Tekst and content in cooperation with Camilla Augusta Søhol, Rammestiftelsen

Malmskrivergården farm

Malmskrivergården features Sandvika’s oldest preserved buildings, from around 1640.
Malmskrivergården is a small farm that belonged to Bærums Verk and constitutes the oldest preserved settlement in Sandvika. The farm was listed in 1979.

Iron production at Bærums Verk started in 1604 under King Christian IV, who wanted to make Denmark-Norway self-sufficient in iron. In the first years, the ironworks used ore found in the local area, but from 1640 the ore came from Southern Norway by sailing ships during the ice-free time of the year. Ore and iron were unloaded and loaded on the beach below Malmskrivergården. The first ore printer was the German Jon Hagedorn. Here he lived and kept track of unloading, storing and transporting the iron ore up to Bærum Ironworks. This was also a small farm with a farmhouse, a brewery house with a baking oven and a combined barn with a barn building.

The barn is made of slag stone from the blast furnace at Bærums Verk. On the wall hangs a stove plate from the 1700s with Anna Krefting's initials on it (Verkseier på Bærums Verk). From Sandvika, the ore was transported via Vøyen or Evje on sleds with wooden wagons. In the 1700s, they began to shoe the runners with iron, which made them more durable.

In 1835, Sandvika had 127 inhabitants in 27 households. Lime and ore transport employed most people.

Source: Bæ rumhistorie.no and Bærum Municipality