Hergisheim is a house in

Stavern Stavern is a small water-side town in Larvik municipality in Vestfold County, Norway. It is south of the city of Larvik. Currently there are around 3,000 inhabitants in Stavern. It is a small town where tourism is one of the most important sou ...

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. It is classified as an artist's home because the novelist Gisken Wildenvey (1895–1985) and her husband the poet Herman Wildenvey (1885–1959) lived in the house from 1927 onward. The Wildenveys came to Stavern in 1923 in search of a country house. The apartment where they had lived in Copenhagen from 1913 to 1920 had burned down, and the insurance settlement served as initial capital for construction. They moved in for Christmas in 1927, having previously rented in Stavern. The house is described in Gisken Wildenvey's memoirs ''Kjærlighet varer lengst'' (Love Lasts Longest, 1975) and in Tom Lotherington's biography of Herman Wildenvey, ''Wildenvey – et dikterliv'' (Wildenvey: A Poet's Life, 1993). The Herman Wildenvey Poetry Award is awarded annually at Hergisheim. The name ''Hergisheim'' was created by combining the first syllables of the couple's names. The house is owned by the Wildenvey family.Hansen, Svend Einar. 2013. Her fikk ikke barnebarnet til Wildenvey komme inn. ''Ostlands-Posten'' (August 15).
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{{reflist Buildings and structures in Larvik Houses completed in 1927