Well worth the visit to a classic home in Bergen. Only opened in the summer season, they give tours in Norwegian and English. Interesting to see how they displayed the wallpaper used in the home over the years. The small garden on the outside is pretty, when in bloom, however if you are there in the early summer, there is...
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Damsgaard Manor
Laksevaag | Alleen 29, Bergen, Norway
55-32-5108
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Ranked #24 of 46 attractions in Bergen
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Bergen was a large, busy and rich town at the end of the 18th century. Amongst the aristocracy it was popular to build luxurious countryside retreats...
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Bergen was a large, busy and rich town at the end of the 18th century. Amongst the aristocracy it was popular to build luxurious countryside retreats for entertaining, recreation and perhaps a bit of farming. Around 1800 there were as many as 70 of these retreats in the surroundings of Bergen. The finest of them all was Damsgard, which unashamedly presented its splendid, castle-like facade towards both the shipping lanes and the town. Damsgard was built in the 1770s for Minister of War Gyldenkrantz. From 1983 to 1993 major protection, conservation and restoration work was carried out. The interiors provide an outstanding example of a Bergen country retreat from the 18th and 19th centuries, and the garden has been recreated to show what it might have been like in the 1780s, with authentic ornamental plants, vegetables, herbs, bushes, trees, statues and drinking fountains. Damsgard Manor is the most important example of Rococo architecture in Norway, and is perhaps the best preserved wooden building in Europe from this period.
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This building from the 17 th century was rebuilt around 1770 in rococco style for a norwegian noble man with dutch roots called Gyldenkrantz. At his death in 1795 the house was actioned away to one of the riches man in norway called Jansson. His family
owned the house an keept it close to its original state until 1983 when...
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