Eidsgata and Tverrgata
Eidsgata og Tverrgata is a monument area in Nordfjordeid in the Norwegian municipality of Stad .
location
It is located in the center of Nordfjordeid and is formed by the eponymous streets Eidsgata and Tverrgata. The Eidsgata is the main street of the village, running from south to north for about 800 meters, onto which the narrow Tverrgata joins from the northeast. In the monument area there are the listed objects Hotel Yris , at the southern end, and the Church of Eid , at the northern end.
Architecture and history
During the Eidsgata parallel to the beach of Eidsfjord originated, the running transversely thereto Tverrgata the yard joined Myklebust with the beach. The monument area is characterized by two-storey white wooden houses, which were built from the 1860s onwards, but mainly in the period around 1900, whereby some of the wood used comes from earlier buildings also located elsewhere and thus may be of older origin. The buildings served as residential houses and also housed shops and craft workshops on the ground floor. There were tailors, carpenters, shoemakers, bakers, a blacksmith's shop, a manufacture and also guest houses. Many rooms were also rented to soldiers stationed in Nordfjordeid. Eidsgata became the town's shopping street.
Some of the houses are in the Swiss style . Noteworthy is the centrally located at the confluence of the Tverrgata Eidsgata, provided with a tower Aasebøhuset and the decorated in dragon style, from a stockbroker built Børsemakarhuset . In the monument area there are also the Bedehuset Betania and the Kulturhuset Gamlebanken .
The buildings along the narrow Tverrgata are smaller and often only have a plot of land of 250 m².
Web links
- Entry in kulturminnesok.no (Norwegian)
Coordinates: 61 ° 54 ′ 29.6 " N , 5 ° 59 ′ 17.7" E