Havrå
Havrå Havre |
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Farm | |
View of the farm area, Havretunet
View of the farm area, Havretunet
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Location in Hordaland county | |
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Country | Norway |
Region | Western Norway |
County | Hordaland |
District | Nordhordland |
Municipality | Osterøy |
Elevation[1] | 71 m (233 ft) |
Time zone | CET (UTC+01:00) |
• Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+02:00) |
Havrå or Havre (sometimes Havretunet or Havråtunet) is a cluster of farms along the southern shore of the island of Osterøy in Osterøy municipality, Hordaland county, Norway. Havrå is one of the very last and best preserved of the common farm clusters on the western coast of Norway. Havrå was the first cultural environment to be protected under section 20 of the Norwegian Cultural Heritage Act. It was not connected to the national road network until late in the 1960s.
Havrå is situated on very steep terrain on the south side of the island of Osterøy, along the Sørfjorden. The farm area is shaped in a typical fashion for the steep terrain along the Western Norwegian fjords. It can be clearly seen from both the railway (Bergensbanen) and the highway that goes between the cities of Bergen and Oslo.
Many of the buildings at Havrå are characteristic to the inner coastal district between Bergen and the Sognefjorden; the combination of dry masonry and juniper cladding on barn façades that are exposed to rain and wind.
Name
The name, with various spellings, dates back as far as 1303. In the oldest sources the name is written Havra (possibly representing Havrá). From the 16th century the name was often spelled (with many variations) Havre.[2]
In 1949-1950, a film called Havretunet was made about life at Havrå. It was released in 1952. Some of the people taking part in the film worked to change the name from Havre to Havrå. This changing of name was accepted by the National Map Service, but the name change remains controversial among the local population.[3][4]
Media gallery
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Havråtunet mot Romslo.jpg
View looking south towards the mainland
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Havre04.jpg
Havretunet between the houses
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Havre07.jpg
Havretunet between the houses
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Havre09.jpg
A demanding technique, but the cladding lasts for 30–50 years
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Havre10.jpg
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Havre05.jpg
The mills are near the houses
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Havretunet KSH.JPG
Havretunet from across Sørfjord, near Romslo
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Havre011.jpg
The grain is poured into the tract and the flavour is gathered on the desktop surrounding millstones and is wiped down to a bin in the front of the table
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Havre08.jpg
Weather exposed barn walls clad with juniper. Juniper keeps the lashing rain out, permits draft and keeps the hay dry.
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Havråtunet i Sørfjorden.jpg
View of the traditional fencing
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Havråtunet - kvernhusrekke.jpg
Mill houses
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Havråtunet - midtre gate.jpg
Main path through the farm area
See also
- movie "Two Lives" (2012) - scenes filmed at Havra farm
References
External links
- Stiftinga Havråtunet (Norwegian)
- Introduction to the documentary film about Havretunet (Norwegian)
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Havretunet at IMDb
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Havråtunet at IMDb Short version of the original documentary film Havretunet
- Kulturnett Hordaland
- Stiftinga Havråtunet
- Museumssenteret i Hordaland
- Miljøstatus i Norge: Havrå