Minde is a neighbourhood in the southwestern part of Årstad borough in the city of Bergen in Vestland county, Norway. It is located south of the neighborhoods of Solheim and

Kronstad Kronstad may refer to: Places * Kronstadt, a Russian town and seaport * Kronstad, Bergen, a neighbourhood in Bergen, Norway * Kronstad Hovedgård, a Norwegian manor house * Kroonstad, a South African city Other

* Kronstadt rebellion, anti-Bols ...

, west of Landås, and north of Fjøsanger and Storetveit (in Fana borough). Parts of Minde were in Fana municipality before the merger of 1972. It is home to the Bergen offices of the

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, the dairy company

Tine Tine may refer to: *Tine (structural), a 'prong' on a fork or similar implement, or any similar structure *Tine (company), the biggest dairy producer in Norway * ''Tine'' (film), a 1964 Danish film *Tine, Iran, a village in Mazandaran Province, Ira ...

, and the headquarters of the shipping company Odfjell. The area is served by one

elementary school A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), junior school (in Australia), elementary school or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary ed ...

, ''Minde skole''. An upper secondary school, ''Kristianborg videregående skole'', was formerly located here, operated jointly by three free churches. As it failed to attain a body of students large enough for the operation of the school to be economically viable, it closed after the end of the school year of 2007/2008.

Fridalen Church Fridalen Church ( no, Fridalen kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Bergen Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the Fridalen neighborhood in the borough of Årstad in the city of Bergen. It is the church for ...

is located in the neighborhood too.

Transport

The main highway to the city centre of Bergen,

European route E39 European route E39 is the designation of a north–south road in Norway and Denmark from Klett, just south of Trondheim, to Aalborg via Bergen, Stavanger and Kristiansand. In total, there are nine ferries, more than any other single road in Eu ...

, passes through Minde and it is called the ''Fjøsangerveien''. The four-lane

dual carriageway A dual carriageway ( BE) or divided highway ( AE) is a class of highway with carriageways for traffic travelling in opposite directions separated by a central reservation (BrE) or median (AmE). Roads with two or more carriageways which are ...

passes through densely populated areas without

grade separation In civil engineering (more specifically highway engineering), grade separation is a method of aligning a junction of two or more surface transport axes at different heights (grades) so that they will not disrupt the traffic flow on other tran ...

and there are plans for a long tunnel bypass between Danmarksplass and Fjøsanger. The project was not included in the National Transport Plan for the period 2010–2019. The first stage of the Bergen Light Rail system, which opened in June 2010, includes a station at Wergeland in Minde.

References

Neighbourhoods of Bergen {{Bergen-stub