Arngerðareyri () is a location at the mouth of the fjord of
Ísafjörður
Ísafjörður (pronounced , meaning ''ice fjord'', literally ''fjord of ices'') is a town in the northwest of Iceland.
The oldest part of Ísafjörður with the town centre is located on a spit of sand, or ''eyri'', in Skutulsfjörður, a fjord ...
at the bottom of
Ísafjarðardjúp
Ísafjarðardjúp () is a large fjord in the Westfjords region of Iceland. Its name translates to ''Depth of the fjord of sea ice''. Originally named simply Ísafjörður, the semantic run around happened through the -Deep meaning the inner pa ...
in the
Westfjords
The Westfjords or West Fjords (, ) is a large peninsula in northwestern Iceland and an administrative region, the least populous in the country. It lies on the Denmark Strait, facing the east coast of Greenland. It is connected to the rest of I ...
of
Iceland
Iceland is a Nordic countries, Nordic island country between the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe. It is culturally and politically linked with Europe and is the regi ...
and the former place of farm and trading post.
History
Trading began in Arngerðareyri around 1884, owned by
Ásgeirsverslun, a major merchant in Ísafjörður, and managed by Ásgeir Guðmundsson, a farmer in Arngerðareyri. During the 20th century, the ferry ''Fagranes'' sailed from Arngerðareyri to Ísafjörður while there were no or bad roads around Ísafjörður.
Kastalinn
The former farm house that still stands is a stately stone house in the style of a castle, and is commonly known as ''Kastalinn''.
It was originally built for Sigurð Þórðarson, the trading company manager of the ''Kaupfélag Nauteyrarhrepps'', in 1929. The building had six bedrooms, running water, a balcony, a water toilet, tiles decorated the floor and marble that was specially ordered from Italy for the stairs. The house was mostly abandoned in 1966, but has been slowly renovated since being acquired by new owners in 2012.
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Buildings and structures in Westfjords