Bjølstad estate
The Good Bjølstad (Norwegian: Bjølstad gård ) is located in Heildal , community Sel , in Fylke Innlandet , Norway .
history
The estate was first mentioned in writing in 1270. Eirik Bjørnsson bought the farm piece by piece around 1430. He was the progenitor of the Bratt family, whose family lived on the estate for a long time. In 1680 the farm had 26 small farmers and over 700 houses. One of the smallholders was Søre Lykkia, also known as Bjølstadløkken. In 1904 the estate owned one square kilometer of arable land and 30 square kilometers of forest. Today the farm is privately owned.
Bjølstad Chapel is a log building from 1531 and has space for 75 parishioners. The portal planks , with Urnes-style carvings , were probably reused from an earlier stave church . At times the chapel was also used as a warehouse and barn.
The nine houses, the buildings of Bjølstad Manor that still exist today , have been a listed building for several years (according to the Norwegian monument law "Fredningsloven" of 1920).
The courtyard was the filming location for the German film adaptation (1959) of the book " And forever sing the forests " (1933) by Trygve Gulbranssen .
For the 850th anniversary in 1970, a few thousand members of the Bratt family met for a family reunion and erected a memorial stone on the occasion.
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Coordinates: 61 ° 45 ′ 40.5 ″ N , 9 ° 17 ′ 9.2 ″ E