Havrå

Havrå
Havre
Farm

View of the farm area, Havretunet
Havrå

Location in Hordaland county

Coordinates: 60°26′22″N 05°34′31″E / 60.43944°N 5.57528°E / 60.43944; 5.57528Coordinates: 60°26′22″N 05°34′31″E / 60.43944°N 5.57528°E / 60.43944; 5.57528
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.

Map indicating Havrå

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]

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See also

References

  1. ↑ "Havrå" (in Norwegian). yr.no. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
  2. ↑ "Brief history of Havråtunet" (in Norwegian). Stiftinga Havråtunet.
  3. ↑ "Havre or Havrå?" (in Norwegian).
  4. ↑ "Havre is the name" (in Norwegian).

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