Kategori: Historical monument

 We do not know the exact year when this house was built, but it is assumed to be around 1850, and it is one of the oldest houses in Sundet.

It was at this time, around the time the railway came to Eidsvoll, that Sundet began to be built up. Dokkengården, the house behind Sundgata 6, had then been the only house here at Sundtoppen for several decades. The first owner is believed to have been David Olsen Vilberg. In 1843 he became the owner of Sundgården, which includes a larger area around Sundtoppen.

A little back in time, the house was referred to as Vilberggård. Later, the house went by the name Larsengården for a long time. That is because in 1913 the house was registered as Ludvig O. Larsen, and from 1951 his son Tormod Larsen was the owner. He owned until 1984. The house is timber-framed, and it is assumed that there was an external stairwell on the north side which was later built in. Where there is now an extension to the house, there used to be a separate small house. The basement and first floor, as well as the small house and later extension, have always been used for food of various kinds. The upper floors have been used for housing. The facade has changed slightly, the most visible being fewer windows than originally. 

This house is called Meierigården because there was a dairy here for a long time.

The dairy business started after a founding meeting on 12 August 1897, and the formal formation of Eidsvold Andelsmeieri on 14 December of the same year.

Then the construction of the dairy was also approved. Two years later, on 11 January 1899, the building was finished, and it was inspected and test driven. The dairy operation started. In the early years, the house did not look like it does now.

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.

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.

Dokkengården was built by Sundman Ole Hansen Styren at the end of the 18th century, and is Sundet's oldest house.

The sundman built the house close to the river Vorma, since his job was to row people across the river when needed. There was no bridge over the Vorma until 1857, but Styren built a winter bridge in the 1780s. Its remains can be seen at low water levels. At this time, the house was called Sundhuset, since the property on which it is located was then called Sundgården.

A waterman's job was to row people across the river. The first sundman whose name is known in the Sound was Kristoffer Sundmann in the 16th century. At that time, soundmen did not pay tax on what they earned, but in return had to ensure free passage for the king's and the priest's people, and also the king's mail.

After 1680, sundmen were also taxed. Fredrik Neumann has this list of sound men in the booklet "Sundet historie": The first whose name we know was Kristoffer Sundmann in the 16th century. Ole Hansen Styren was a soundman from 1755-1809. The house has mostly been used as a residence. The current owner is Espen Jansen.

H.C.H. Brandt started trading in Sundet in 1881.

First in Tønsagergården, then Vengergården and Hoelgården, before he could move into his own house, Brandtgården, in 1900. The house had a shop on the first floor, and accommodation for family, trade officers and servants on the other two floors. On the south side there was a large barn with storage space, and a horse and cart that transported goods to the branch of the Gold Agency. His son, Christian Fredrik (Fredrich) Brandt took over the business in 1917. Then the name "Glassmagasin" was introduced.

Nevertheless, the business continued in roughly the same vein, that is to say, you could buy almost anything you could get hold of over the counter there. People did not trade in meters and kilograms in those times; 3 acres of cottonseed meal and 1 mark of coffee were bought. Vadmel is a thick woolen fabric that was widely used for clothing in the past.

In the 1930s, the range of goods changed in character and from the Second World War onwards it can be said that the business was a fully developed specialist business in glass, stoneware and kitchenware. His son again, Trond Linner Brandt, took over C.F. Brandt's glass magazine in 1955. He had the honor of leading the "Glassmagasinet" through its 100th anniversary in 1981.