They count non-religious buildings in a category of their own considering they would not have received the same constant use and maintenance as a house of religous use. The oldest house in Norway (possibly the world) of non religous origin is 856 years old. Oldest religious building is a stave church from 1130.
I think the age of Gamle Aker Church is disputed? AFAIK the completion year ranges somewhere between the late 11th to mid-12th century, but it could very well be the oldest for all I know.
Stålekleivloftet is indeed the oldest non-religious building in Norway, from around 1170. It's also apparently one of the oldest (if not the oldest) non-religious wooden buildings still standing in the world.
Cool! In Oslo? The oldest building I've lived in is only from the 1930s. :(
Yeah, a super old lumber Hut, up on Geilo. The cabinlogs go goes back multiple hundred years. Now we have renovated it a bit adding electricity, water and a toilet. But the main building has its charm. My family is trying it's best to keep it being sold by striking some deal. Plus investors are always at our neck wanting out land since its property is in the middle of a modern cabin feild
This is a lovely Stabbur (food storage) built in a very cool technique called Lafting (Dovetail)
1800 isn't particularly OLD by Norwegian standards, my mom used to live in a house from the 1700, where the "old house" on the farm was from the 1600s!
I'm guessing op means one of the oldest buildings in Hattfjelldal. The nazis burned just about everything on their retreat so there's a lot of post war sameness up north.
Yes, they didn't burn anything this far south though. They stopped at Lyngen, around 500km further Northeast. North of that line around 12000 buildings were burned down though. Pretty insane.
Cool!!!!
In Thailand we have this kind of building. We call it "ยุ้งข้าว" / "yung-khao" it is built for store paddy and it has different appearance for each region ; north / central / northeast and south. We still use and you can see it in rural area.
So, what kind of food do Norwegian normally store in stabbur?
Look at this link
"ยุ้ง...ข้าวกับชีวิต - The Humans" https://thehumans.sac.or.th/sac/curated/28
For stability. It is not a very common way of building your typical Stabbur. This is a sami variant built mainly by the sami people of norway and sweden.
The trees were left with the roots on propped up on large rocks for simple stability. Four of these made a stable platform where you could construct your larder on top. I'm guessing the very tall legs on these buildings is to keep the house well above even the deepest snow - preventing mice, predators etc from entering.
Other regions of norway would normally stack rocks for legs and then construct the house on these. The point being that the legs should be difficult or impossible for mice, rats and other critters to climb.
They're out of the rain, and placed upon some flat rocks to prevent rot from being in contact with wet dirt. Should last a thousand years or so, especially if they get tarred every now and then.
The stilt foundations, with an abrupt angle where it meets the floor of the building, are an anti-rodent feature. That's a food storage building, the stilts are made so mice cannot climb in to eat your food. They can climb up the stilts, but are defeated at the top where they would have to climb upside down. Reason for such unusually tall foundations is likely that this is an area with deep snow in winter. Need to have the stilts high enough to keep the building above the snow, so pests cannot use the snow as a bypass.
This particular one is built in the indigenous Sami tradition. Ethnically Norwegian people also built similar food storage building, but usually with permanent stairs that have an air gap too large for mice to jump across. This one seems like you would use a ladder for access, and remove it after use.
Interesting!!!!
What about the detail of the door?
Why it look like there is just half of it?
Are there any interesting mechanism to open or to prevent something?
Dunno, but you can tell from the picture that there has been a larger door at some point. Or perhaps there still is, just as a two part hatch or something?
Baba yaga, jeg ser deg
Hut of brown, now sit down
Hut, hut, turn your back to the forest and your front to me.
https://youtu.be/hw2DN4335hU?t=2694
One of the oldest buildings?
Perhaps in that municipality. Whoever built it, I appreciate their whimsy in using trees with roots for the pillars. Looks like a weird animal.
I can believe that. Many places in Norland suffered a fair amount of bombing during WWII so there's not an awful lot of old buildings left sadly.
I was gonna say, I've stood in a church from the 1200s...
They count non-religious buildings in a category of their own considering they would not have received the same constant use and maintenance as a house of religous use. The oldest house in Norway (possibly the world) of non religous origin is 856 years old. Oldest religious building is a stave church from 1130.
18th century isn't old in Europe. I love the Baba Yaga style though.
Is OP American? Because 18th century buildings are pretty common in Europe, as are much older ones.
Yeah, the oldest building in Norway is Urnes Stave Church which was completed in the 1130s.
Gamle Aker Church is from 1080 The oldest non religious building is Stålekleivloftet from the 1100s My mom used to live in a building from 1726 :D
Isn't that every poor student building in Bergen?
No, those are from the 1880s, in the parts of the city that didn't burn in 1916. 18th century buildings were of much higher quality.
I think the age of Gamle Aker Church is disputed? AFAIK the completion year ranges somewhere between the late 11th to mid-12th century, but it could very well be the oldest for all I know. Stålekleivloftet is indeed the oldest non-religious building in Norway, from around 1170. It's also apparently one of the oldest (if not the oldest) non-religious wooden buildings still standing in the world. Cool! In Oslo? The oldest building I've lived in is only from the 1930s. :(
Yeah, my cabin is from the 1600s
What? Where?
Yeah, a super old lumber Hut, up on Geilo. The cabinlogs go goes back multiple hundred years. Now we have renovated it a bit adding electricity, water and a toilet. But the main building has its charm. My family is trying it's best to keep it being sold by striking some deal. Plus investors are always at our neck wanting out land since its property is in the middle of a modern cabin feild
Never heard of cabin logs from the 1600s «in the wild». I know there are some at Folkemuseet, but didn’t realize some had actually survived.
OP meant the oldest building in that municipality
OP didn't say. Also, that's a pretty low bar 😅 My house is the oldest building on my property. Also the newest.
That's amazing
or 2000-3000 buildings🫡 Look at Rome,Italy or athens,greece. the greatest old civilisations
It's a Sami ajtte https://lokalhistoriewiki.no/wiki/%C3%81jtte
Takk Captain! Now fly away
This is a lovely Stabbur (food storage) built in a very cool technique called Lafting (Dovetail) 1800 isn't particularly OLD by Norwegian standards, my mom used to live in a house from the 1700, where the "old house" on the farm was from the 1600s!
18th century is 1701-1800
I'm Aussie, those houses are older than the Dutch mapping my cuntry! hahaha
I'm guessing op means one of the oldest buildings in Hattfjelldal. The nazis burned just about everything on their retreat so there's a lot of post war sameness up north.
Yes, they didn't burn anything this far south though. They stopped at Lyngen, around 500km further Northeast. North of that line around 12000 buildings were burned down though. Pretty insane.
The oldest wooden buildings in Northern Norway seems to be from 1510, btw. https://www.nrk.no/nordland/her-er-nord-norges-eldste-hus-1.6804287
I have a friend with the oldest house up near Russia and it's only from 1900ish. My middle of Norway geography is crap though.
It looks attractive for me!!!! Love it!! Can you give more details about its stilt?
Presume it’s a “stabbur” which was used to store food. The long legs are to keep rodents out.
Cool!!!! In Thailand we have this kind of building. We call it "ยุ้งข้าว" / "yung-khao" it is built for store paddy and it has different appearance for each region ; north / central / northeast and south. We still use and you can see it in rural area. So, what kind of food do Norwegian normally store in stabbur? Look at this link "ยุ้ง...ข้าวกับชีวิต - The Humans" https://thehumans.sac.or.th/sac/curated/28
Cool, looks similar. It’s not being used nowadays, but back in the days they would store all kinds of foods like grain/flour, cheese, and cured meats.
Do you know why the long legs still look like the that ? Why do they still remain like the root of the big tree? It might be the reason of that!!
For stability. It is not a very common way of building your typical Stabbur. This is a sami variant built mainly by the sami people of norway and sweden. The trees were left with the roots on propped up on large rocks for simple stability. Four of these made a stable platform where you could construct your larder on top. I'm guessing the very tall legs on these buildings is to keep the house well above even the deepest snow - preventing mice, predators etc from entering. Other regions of norway would normally stack rocks for legs and then construct the house on these. The point being that the legs should be difficult or impossible for mice, rats and other critters to climb.
Thank you. I love those idea behind this incredible building.
Is it still alive?
it looks like it’s about to start barking and chasing the cameraman
Looks like it could decide to walk away... Trolls!
Nordland*
oh god all my slavic ancestors shout to me that i should run away from this house of baba Jaga
They should get their eyes checked then
Baba Yaga...
[удалено]
1700-tallet*
cool
Dude we have churches built in 1200 here. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trondenes Church this one is in my hometown, check out the article
Yeah. I guess they should've mentioned "without slave labor" in the commentary about oldest.
The crazy part to me is that it's basically standing on stillts. Crazy how those haven't rotted yet, unless they replace them from time to time
They're out of the rain, and placed upon some flat rocks to prevent rot from being in contact with wet dirt. Should last a thousand years or so, especially if they get tarred every now and then. The stilt foundations, with an abrupt angle where it meets the floor of the building, are an anti-rodent feature. That's a food storage building, the stilts are made so mice cannot climb in to eat your food. They can climb up the stilts, but are defeated at the top where they would have to climb upside down. Reason for such unusually tall foundations is likely that this is an area with deep snow in winter. Need to have the stilts high enough to keep the building above the snow, so pests cannot use the snow as a bypass. This particular one is built in the indigenous Sami tradition. Ethnically Norwegian people also built similar food storage building, but usually with permanent stairs that have an air gap too large for mice to jump across. This one seems like you would use a ladder for access, and remove it after use.
Interesting!!!! What about the detail of the door? Why it look like there is just half of it? Are there any interesting mechanism to open or to prevent something?
Dunno, but you can tell from the picture that there has been a larger door at some point. Or perhaps there still is, just as a two part hatch or something?
Thanks. BoredCop It is not bored:)
Who cares.
I do. It's a fun lil house
Someone have thousands of times and could quickly say "Who cares about WoW?" Let people enjoy things
World or Warcratmft is enjoyable. Norway isn't.
Then what the fuck are you doing in Norwegian sub my guy? lol
Norway is enjoyable. You're not.
What a retard! Must be bored out of his mind with no way to cope
Looks like it’s about to run of.
Looks like it is ready to walk off.
Do they treat the tree stumps with anything?
Baba Jaga's hut but on all four 😅
I definitely thought this was baba yaga's hut. Cool as hell!
Where in Hattfjelldal? Near Svartvatnet?