Kronstad Hovedgård is a
manor house
A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were usually held the lord's manorial courts, communal mea ...
in the city of
Bergen
Bergen (, ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county on the Western Norway, west coast of Norway. Bergen is the list of towns and cities in Norway, second-largest city in Norway after the capital Oslo.
By May 20 ...
,
Norway
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. It is situated in the borough of
Ã…rstad about 2 km south of the
Bergenhus
Bergenhus is a borough of the city of Bergen in Vestland county, Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of ...
on the south shore of the bay of
Store Lungegårdsvannet
Store Lungegårdsvannet is a bay located in the city and municipality of Bergen in Vestland county, Norway. The bay separates the city centre, located in the borough of Bergenhus, from the southern boroughs of the city, Årstad, Fana and Ytreby ...
.
History
The farm of ''Kronstad'', then named ''Hunsstadir'', later ''Honstad'' and ''Hunstad'', was established in the 12th century. It belonged to the monastery of
Nonneseter.
Vincens Lunge
Vincens Lunge (sporadically referred to as ''Vincents Lunge''; – 3 January 1536) was a Danish- Norwegian noble, member of the Norwegian realm council (''Riksråd'') and the foremost representative of King Christian III of Denmark in Norway. ...
took over the farm in 1528. From 1685 to 1693, the manor belonged to
Jørgen Thormøhlen, a merchant, shipowner, slave trader and industrialist. In 1705,
vicar
A vicar (; Latin: '' vicarius'') is a representative, deputy or substitute; anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior (compare "vicarious" in the sense of "at second hand"). Linguistically, ''vicar'' is cognate with the English p ...
of
Bergen Cathedral
Bergen Cathedral () is a cathedral in the city of Bergen in Vestland county, Norway. It is the episcopal seat of the Diocese of Bjørgvin as well as the seat of the "Bergen domkirke" parish and the seat of the Bergen domprosti (arch-deanery). It ...
Anders Bruun purchased the manor and renamed it ''Cronstad''. Christian Gerhard Ameln, a merchant, purchased it in 1781, constructing several new buildings and clearing the fields. Ameln also constructed a new one-floored manor house.
Joachim Friele, a merchant who worked as a wine importer, bought Kronstad in 1840. Inspired by the French
Château Margaux
Château Margaux (), archaically La Mothe de Margaux, is a wine estate of Bordeaux wine located in Margaux-Cantenac, France, and was one of five wines to achieve ''Premier cru'' (first growth) status in the Bordeaux Classification of 1855. The ...
, he hired architect
Ole Peter Riis Høegh
Ole Peter Riis Høegh (July 27, 1806 – March 1, 1852) was a Norwegian architect who was one of Norway's first trained civilian architects and was Bergen's first town surveyor. Høegh was born in Grue Municipality, Grue, Norway. He design ...
to reconstruct the building. At the time, it was one of the largest private mansions in the district. The house is a white painted, two-story, wooden building with a canopy in
Empire style
The Empire style (, ''style Empire'') is an early-nineteenth-century design movement in architecture, furniture, other decorative arts, and the visual arts, representing the second phase of Neoclassicism. It flourished between 1800 and 1815 duri ...
with Ionian columns on the main façade. The building is one of the finest late-Empire style buildings in Bergen. Today, the manor house is owned by the Stiftelsen Krigsveteranenes Minne. It is being rented out for various uses.
References
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External links
Stiftelsen Krigsveteranenes Minne website
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12th-century establishments in Norway
Buildings and structures of the Lunge family
Buildings and structures in Bergen
Farms in Vestland
Historic farms in Norway
Manor houses in Norway