The Nesset Parsonage ( no, Nesset prestegård) lies southwest of

Eidsvåg Eidsvåg may refer to: People * Bjørn Eidsvåg, a Norwegian singer, songwriter and priest Places * Eidsvåg, Nesset, a village in Molde municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway * Eidsvåg, Bergen, a neighbourhood in the city of Bergen in V ...

on the south side of Langfjorden in the municipality of

Nesset Nesset is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway on the Romsdal Peninsula. The administrative centre was the village of Eidsvåg. Other population centers included Rausand, Boggestranda, Myklebostad, Eresfjord, and Eikesdalen. ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. The parsonage is especially known for being the boyhood home of the writer

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson ( , ; 8 December 1832 – 26 April 1910) was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished ...

. His father,

Peder Bjørnson Peder Elias Bjørnson (1798–1871) was a Norwegian priest, best known for being the father of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. Bjørnson was born in at the Skei farm in Søgne. He was of peasant stock and he married Inger Elise Nordraak (1808–1897) fro ...

, served as the parish priest here from 1837 to 1853. Bjørnstjerne lived in Nesset until 1844, when he moved to

Molde Molde () is a town and municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Romsdal. It is located on the Romsdal Peninsula, surrounding the Fannefjord and Moldefjord. The administrative centre of the m ...

and started high school. The rural community and nature at the parsonage in

Romsdal Romsdal is a traditional district in the Norwegian county Møre og Romsdal, located between Nordmøre and Sunnmøre. The district of Romsdal comprises Aukra, Fræna, Midsund, Molde, Nesset, Rauma, Sandøy, and Vestnes. It is named after the val ...

had a strong impact on Bjørnson's poetry. The parsonage has been developed in a partnership between the

Romsdal Museum The Romsdal Museum ( no, Romsdalsmuseet) is a museum in the Romsdal district of Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The museum is based in Molde Municipality, but it has sites all over the region. History The museum was founded by Peter Tønder ...

as a museum-based consultant and the Norwegian Church Endowment (Ovf), which owns the property. The parsonage is the municipality's

millennium site A millennium site ( no, tusenårssted) is a site selected by a Norwegian municipality or county municipality to mark the transition to the 2000s. In Norway it was decided that the counties and municipalities would choose one millennium site for ...

.''Markedsplan for Nesset Prestegård kurs og konferansesenter''. 2010. Eidsvåg: Nesset kommune, p. 9.

Gallery

File:Nesset prestegård, Møre og Romsdal - Riksantikvaren-T329 01 0002.jpg, ''Almuens herrestue'': the priest's residence, maintained by the villagers File:Nesset prestegård, Møre og Romsdal - Riksantikvaren-T329 01 0003.jpg, ''Borgstua'', used for accommodation for servants, and ''Almuens herrestue''

References

External links

*
Nesset Parsonage
at the

Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage The Directorate for Cultural Heritage ( no, Riksantikvaren or ''Direktoratet for kulturminneforvaltning'') is a government agency responsible for the management of cultural heritage in Norway. Subordinate to the Norwegian Ministry of the Environm ...

website
''Nesset prestegard – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnsons Barndomshjem'' (Nesset Parsonage: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's Boyhood Home)
at the

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