Waldehuset
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The Waldehuset is a historic wooden house in the Norwegian city of Ålesund, which has been designated as a museum . It is known to have survived the devastating fire in Ålesund in 1904.
The building is located in the eastern part of Ålesund city center on the island of Nørvøy in a corner at the confluence of Fjellgata and Grensegata at Fjellgata 2 .
Architecture and history
The two-story white house was built in 1871, using probably wood from a hut built around 1720 on another side of the fjord as building material. The facade facing west towards the Grensegata has four axes. In 1895 Knut Walde bought the house. The Walde family remained the owners of the Waldehuset for more than 100 years, from which the name of the building goes back. In the period around 1904, 16 people lived in the house. Two families of the Walde family lived on the first and second floors, while two older sisters, Anders and Inger Nor, lived in the attic rooms.
On the night of January 22nd to 23rd, 1904, a fire broke out in Ålesund, which destroyed large parts of the city. The fire also raged in the area around Waldehuset, but the building remained undamaged.
The Waldehuset remained in the possession of the Walde family in the following years, but then stood empty from the end of the 1990s and fell into disrepair. There were considerations to demolish the dilapidated building. In 2012 Anders Pederson acquired the Waldehuset and donated it to the Pentecostal congregation Pinsekirka Filadelfia . The parish renovated the building and set up a café and runs a free museum. Here is the Pentecostal church the fact that the Waldehuset survived the fire of 1904 unscathed considered religious miracles and the building as a Clubhouse shown.
Legend
A legend has grown up around the events of the city fire of 1904. Thereafter, at noon on January 22, 1904, his 69th birthday, an angel appeared to the deeply religious Christian Anders Nor, who lived in the attic. He announced that Ålesund would burn down the coming night because of the sins committed there. The Waldehuset and everything in it will be spared. Another way of describing this event was to his wife and the other residents, who, however, did not believe him. When the fire actually approached the house, all residents except Anders Nor left the Waldehuset. Except for a bed and a chair, all furnishings were also removed. While all the evacuated items were burned, the house was completely undamaged. Nor died ten years later on January 22, 1914.
The Pentecostal Church regards the legend as a miracle and relates it to a visit by a Swedish-American preacher Frederick Franson to Ålesund in 1884 . Together with his friend Louis Ellingsen, he was driven out of the city by the residents and is said to have prophesied the displacement of the people from Ålesund.
literature
- Das Wunderhaus , leaflet from the museum, no year
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Coordinates: 62 ° 28 ′ 20.7 ″ N , 6 ° 10 ′ 1.6 ″ E