Kulturhuset Gamlebanken
The Kulturhuset Gamlebanken is a cultural center in Nordfjordeid in Norwegian municipality city .
Art exhibitions and concerts take place in the Kulturhaus. In the summer months, the house also serves as a tourist information office . In addition, the operating Opera Nordfjord an office here. The festival office of the Malakoff Rock Festival is also in the house.
On the west side of the building facing Eidsgata there is a commemorative plaque commemorating the Norwegian seaman Ernst Martin Totland who perished in World War II.
location
It is located on the east side of Eidsgata in the center of the village at Eidsgata 100 and belongs to the Eidsgata og Tverrgata monument area .
history
The wooden house was built in 1881 for Nordfjord Sparebank . The property had already been bought in 1877. After a collaboration with a local architect failed, the building was put out to tender and the contract was ultimately awarded to Rasmus D. Nøstdal and Anders K. Skibenes on February 3, 1879. The blacksmith Didrik Guttormsen Roti also carried out important work on the house. The house was occupied in autumn 1881. It served as a bank building until 1963, from which the name Gamlebanken ( German old bank ), which is still in use today, arises. There were further construction work. The southern part of the house was completed in 1886, the northern part in 1891. After the Second World War , the house was too small, so that extensions were made in 1949, which were dismantled during restorations around the 1990s.
It was then used as a public library . In the 1980s, the owner considered selling Sparebank 1 Vest , the old building, or tearing it down. Ultimately, it was restored and used as the administration building for the Eid Sparebanks. After the house was vacant again in 1997, it was rented to the Stiftinga Kulturhuset Gamlebanken Foundation in 1998 and has been operated as a cultural center ever since.
Web links
- Website of the House of Culture (Norwegian)
- Hermund Kleppa, Kulturhuset Gamlebanken on leksikon.fylkesarkivet.no (Norwegian)
Coordinates: 61 ° 54 ′ 25 ″ N , 5 ° 59 ′ 24 ″ E