Øystese is a village in the municipality of

Kvam Kvam is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The municipality is located along the Hardangerfjorden in the traditional district of Hardanger. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Norheimsund. Other larger settl ...

Vestland Vestland is a Counties of Norway, county in Norway. The county is located in Western Norway, and its administrative centre is Bergen, where the executive and political leadership is based. The County governor (Norway), County Governor is based in ...

county,

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. It is located along the

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about east of the municipal centre of

Norheimsund Norheimsund is the administrative centre of the municipality of Kvam in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located on the northern side of the Hardangerfjord, about from the city of Bergen. The village of Øystese lies about to the northeas ...

Norwegian County Road 7 County Road 7 () is a road in Vestland county, Norway. The road runs from Trengereid in the municipality of Bergen to Kollanes in the municipality of Voss. The route branches off from European route E16 and passes through the Trengereid Valley ...

passes through the village. The village had a population (2012) of 1,881; giving the village a

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of . It is now considered part of the

urban area, so separate village statistics are no longer tracked. The village is an industry centre for the municipality. It is a leading producer of

lumber Lumber is wood that has been processed into uniform and useful sizes (dimensional lumber), including beams and planks or boards. Lumber is mainly used for construction framing, as well as finishing (floors, wall panels, window frames). ...

and there are also several furniture factories. The furniture design and manufacturing company

Arthur Soltvedt Møbelfabrikk Arthur Soltvedt Møbelfabrikk, also known as Pega Furniture, was a Norwegian family business established in 1942. It was one of the first Norwegian furniture manufacturers with a focus on serial production and one of the major participators in Nor ...

, also known as Pega Furniture, was first founded in Øystese in 1942. There is a dairy and cheese factory in Øystese. The factory used to produce

gammalost Gamalost (Nynorsk; ''gammelost'' or ''gammalost'' in Bokmål) is a traditional Norwegian cheese. History Gamalost, which translates as ''old cheese'', was once a staple of the Norwegian diet. Like many traditional Norwegian foods, such as flat ...

cheese until 1990 when the production of that particular kind of cheese was moved to a different factory in

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. The

Øystese Church Øystese Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Kvam Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Øystese. It is the church for the Øystese parish which is part of the Hardanger og Voss prosti (dean ...

from 1868 is located in the village center. There is also a primary school and a secondary school located in Øystese.

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External links

Øystese.no

Cider Festival
Villages in Vestland Kvam {{Vestland-geo-stub

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