Alvøen

Alvøen

Alvøen or Alvøy is the name of a farm and place in Laksevåg in Bergen, Norway. After Alvøens Papirfabrik Ltd had been manufacturing paper in Alvøen since 1797, the paper mills were stopped for good in 1981. It was then the oldest paper mill in the country. The factory and the director's mansion were opened as a museum in 1983, as a branch of the West Norway Museum of Decorative Art.

Alvøen lies at the Vatlestraumen strait, west of Bergen, where the cargo ship "Rocknes" hit an underwater rock and capsized in January 2004. The wreckage was towed to Alvøen, stabilised and partly examined, before being taken to the CCB base at Ågotnes in Sotra for further examination and recovery.

See also

*Alvøy is the name of islands in Øygarden and Fjell in Hordaland county, Norway.

External links

* [http://www.bymuseet.no/?vis=101&spr=en Alvøen main farm]
* [http://www.agm.no/ Alvøen old mill (norwegian)]
* [http://histos.no/industriminnekart/vis.php3?kat=b&id=115 Culture centre at Alvøen]
* [http://www.norphoto.com/r/nor3462.php Pictures from Alvøen]


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