Fyllingsdalenhistorielag

The agricultural community
in the landfill valley

Welcome to the exhibition about the agricultural community in Fyllingsdalen

About the exhibition:

The exhibition deals with the agricultural society that 40 - 50 years ago dominated Fyllingsdalen. The pictures are taken from the CD-room "Fyllingsdalen in the old days" which the Memorial Committee in Fyllingsdalen has published. Here is a unique documentation of Fyllingsdalen's history in text and photos. The exhibition contains only a small part of this material. 

The exhibition shows pictures from Sælen, Nedre and Øvre Fyllingen, as well as Helgeplassen. In addition, with each use, there is a brief review of the ownership over the last couple of hundred years.

The information is mainly taken from Fana Bygdebok, Norske Gardsbruk and articles in Sydvesten written by Leif Sælensminde.

A big thank you to Kjell Sælensminde who has once again contributed his knowledge of Fyllingsdalen. An equally big thank you to Sissel Wergeland who has found time to help with the assembly of the exhibition.

The captions are edited by Jan Hemmingsen, Fyllingsdalen Kulturkontor who also made the exhibition.

The map used to show where in Fyllingsdalen the yarns once lay, it is Tor Stokke who was the prime mover. 

It is this work that has formed the basis and made the work easier, for the digital presentation of the farm development in Fyllingsdalen.

The history team still has this material and is still used as presentations in various contexts.

The texts for the mills at Bønes are written by Asbjørn Krogenes Bøe.

About the Seal.

The seal is probably the oldest farm in Fyllingsdalen. It is reasonable to believe that it was cleared as early as the year 400, ie before the Viking Age ..
In the Middle Ages, the farm was owned by Nonneseter monastery until the Danish - Norwegian nobleman Vincent Lunge (who has given his name to Lungegårdsvanene) took over the farm in 1528.


From 1645 until 1858, it was mostly city dwellers from Bergen who owned the farm. The farm was for a short time owned by the king himself.
Of other owners can be mentioned: Kristian Friele who in 1755 was allowed to set up a sawmill by Sælen - the river that you can see remains of today.


Hans Berentsen Forman bought the farm in 1785. He built a road from Sponvika to Damsgård. Remains of this road are found today behind Sælen school.


The Englishman Morris Sterling bought the farm in 1842 probably because it was good for hunting and fishing. He dug out the canal between Nordåsvannet and Sælenvannet.


The farm was bought in 1858 by the two brothers-in-law Berge Ivarsen Åsgård and Gudmund Nilsen Heldal who divided it between them.


About Nedre Fyllingen Øvre Fyllingen and Helgeplassen.

The farms had the same owner until 1755. They were from 1745 owned by a French officer Philip Nicoll.

In 1755 he sold Nedre Fyllingen, but had the other farms until the 1770s.
Øvre og Nedre Fyllingen has probably been a farm and is probably younger than Sælen. Before the Reformation it was owned by Munkeliv monastery.

From the Reformation until the 1650s, it was owned by the Danish king or the state, but came into the hands of officials or other rich people in the same way as Sælen. Farm 1 on Nedre Fyllingene has a rather unique history as it has been inherited from father to son for almost 250 years and is still owned by the family.


Anders Ingebrigtsen Myklebust b. In Gloppen 1710, d. 1787 married Marta Eriksdatter Klakegg b. 1724, d. 1791, bought in 1755 Nedre Fyllingen for 450 Rdl. Children: Erik, Jakob, Ingebrigt, Anna, Synneva, Rasmus, two children died young. Anders Ingebrigtsen Myklebust divided the farm between two of his sons in the early 1780s.

Erik got farm 3, Hamregården and farm 4, Nebbestølen, while Ingebrigt got farm 1, Løvåsen and farm 2, Nedre Løvåsen.