The unique cultural memorial
"Havråtunet" is beautifully located
on the sunny side between
"Bruvik" and "Haus". Discoveries
from Stone Age may indicate that
people have been living at this
location or near by for more than
3500 years. That is one of the
reasons why they now are working
on preserving this area. As you
can see from the pictures it looks
like a little village. Because so
many of the buildings are
preserved, we can get an impression of how it must have been on a farm in this area prior to the 1800's. "Havrå" was a big farm. It consisted of seven areas of the same size, and one smaller area. "Tunet" has a total of 30 buildings. The buildings where people lived were in the middle, and the barns were on the outside of them. At the beginning of this century there about 60 people were living at "Havrå". Today there are only people living in two of the buildings on a permanent basis, while the other buildings are used as vacation homes.
The three streets penetrating the area are
made of stone and are called "Garden";
"Øvstegarden" and "Nedstegarden".These
names tell what part of "Tunet" they belong to,
The oldest building at "Havrå" is "Gulæksbuæ"
and is dated back to around year 1200. In
most of the buildings we can find timber dated
back to the Middle Ages. The barns here are
constructed the same way as other barns on
Osterøy (click on; "building tradition"). By the
river west "Havraa" there are five grinded houses located in a row. The picture to the left is from "Garden".
If you want to see more pictures from the "Havråtunet", click here.
(This site is unfortunately only in Norwegian language).
