Kategori: Historical monument

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. 

The house was built by Karl Mikaelsen Gaarder in 1896.

It was a men's clothing store here until March 1997. A men's clothing store is a store that sells men's clothing.

Gaarder's competitor. Petter Stefferud and his wife also ran a men's ready-to-wear shop in the house for a couple of years from 1918 to 1920, when they moved to Sundgata 3.

During the Second World War, it was Walter Johannesen and a companion called Harald T. Lunde who ran the shop. After the war, Gunnar Gaarder took over, and after him Øivind and Egil Finnbråten took over.

They moved the shop to Saga 2 in March 1997. After that, the store became women's clothing, when Sissel Lycke started a store called Sølveplet here. She held on until an Indian restaurant took over the premises, and after it went bankrupt, the shop has once again been women's clothing, now Shimmering Clothing.

In recent years, the Kaffehjørnet restaurant has also been located here, with outdoor seating in the courtyard. Current owner is Chriss Brohaug, source Jan Benjamin Baraas

Helge and Julius Myrvang built Myrvanggården in 1927, on the property Solbakke, which was separated from Sundgaarden.

The architect and builder was Axel Bjørnstad from Feiring. In 1897, Sundgata 12 was built on the upper part of Solbakke, and Sundgata 14 was built in front of it.

The house is built diagonally crooked to fit the plot which narrows upwards towards Sundtoppen. This was a difficult task for the builder, and he is said to have stated that he would not build such a house again. The house is under construction, has 4 floors and the floor area is approx. 100 square. There has been business on the 1st floor, and on the 2nd floor there has been both business and housing.

The two upper floors have mostly been rental properties. Today, only the 1st floor is used for commercial activities.