Milde is a neighbourhood in the city of

Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of ...

Vestland Vestland is a county in Norway established on 1 January 2020. The county is located in Western Norway and it is centred around the city of Bergen, Norway's second largest city. The administrative centre of the county is the city of Bergen, where t ...

county,

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 ...

. Milde is situated in the borough of

Ytrebygda Ytrebygda is a borough of the city of Bergen in Vestland county, Norway. The borough is the site of Bergen Flesland Airport. Location Ytrebygda is located southwest of the city center, south of the Grimstadfjorden and the lake Nordåsvannet. It ...

about south of the city centre of Bergen and about southeast of the village area of

Hjellestad Hjellestad is a neighborhood of Bergen, Norway, situated in the borough of Ytrebygda. It is located on Mildehalvøyen, about from the city center. From Hjellestad there is a ferry to Bjelkarøy, Lerøy Lerøy Seafood Group ASA is a seafood prod ...

on the other side of the peninsula. As a basic statistical unit Milde had a population of 516 as of 1 January 2008. Milde has been settled for a long time, there being evidence of cultivation of grain since around the year 100 AD, while the

cultural landscape Cultural landscape is a term used in the fields of geography, ecology, and heritage studies, to describe a symbiosis of human activity and environment. As defined by the World Heritage Committee, it is the "cultural properties hatrepresent the co ...

dates back to around the year 200 BC. Milde peninsula has been surrounded by water on all sides since 1996, when a channel was built between the bays of Vågsbøpollen and Vestrepollen. Arboretum and Botanical Garden of Bergen is located in Milde. The modern neighborhood is built upon the lands of the two farms that historically have made up Milde: ''Store Milde'' and ''Lille Milde''. The original farm was first recorded circa 1530 and was subsequently divided into two parcels, although ownership largely remained undivided until 1816. Toward the end of the Middle Ages, the property belonged to the Dominican convent in Bergen. The farms were in royal ownership from 1624 to 1639.

Store Milde

Store Milde is a manor house located on

peninsula in the borough of

Fana Fana is a borough of the city of Bergen in Vestland county, Norway. The borough makes up the southeastern part of the municipality of Bergen. The borough was once part of the historic municipality of Fana which was incorporated into Bergen in ...

, on the north side of Fanafjorden. The manor house reached its present size during the second half of the 1600s. Bergen merchant Sander Janson (1595-1649) owned Milde from 1639. It is probable that he expanded the main building into a manor house with landscaped garden. In 1723, the farms were foreclosed by Henrich Henrichsen Weinwich (1676-1733). Weinwich probably rebuilt part of the main building. The manor house was rebuilt in the Rococo style around 1784, when Johan Frederik Cappe (1742–1817) owned Store Milde. In 1909 Store Milde was taken over by the municipality of Fana. In 1916, architect Ole Landmark designed a restoration. Store Milde has been protected by under Norwegian Cultural Heritage since 1924.

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* Neighbourhoods of Bergen {{Bergen-stub