ATTRACTIONS
Ulvedal		    
       
               
  The local development company has done  a tremendous work to renovate  cultural monuments.
Several of them, you will find along the culture paths at Ulvedal.
Car parking next to route 613

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  CULTURE PATH,   LOWER PART     CULTURE PATH,   UPPER PART  
               
 

Saw mill

Restored saw mill environment.
Next to route 613 and the car park with the information posters.

   

Farm mills

Farm mills along the river Ulva.
At World war II, the mills was sealed by the authorities, so the farmers should not get tricky,  and grind the grain themselves, and not share the crop with the occupants.  The farmers, however,  broke the seals on at least one of the mills, and grinded their crop as they wanted

  
       
       
  In the constructed pond you may catch fish.  Fishing cards can be bought at the farm across the road      
             
 

Slate quarry 

         
               
 

Early 1900, here was a site where they extracted slates for roofing.
To the left, you see a poster with information about the man that worked here		     Vetestove    
      Military guard hut from the Viking period. 1000 years old.
The only one still standing at it's original location.
Copies have been made at various places, but this one, is the real thing.		  
       
       
       
       
       
           
 

From the info poster at the quarry

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Posters like this are located at most of the attractions

 The quarry     Demmene    
      Regulated water reservoir for the mills  
       
       
       
             
  "Hilljaren"       Rabben    
 

Ledge  in a cliff where they in previous times grew apples and other fruits.  The warm sun made sure that the condition for that kind of cultivation was great.

 As the garden was rather far away, it was cumbersome to transport the apples home, and the garden was left alone for years.  Now they have tidy up the garden, and planted trees and flowers that you may associate with other parts of the world.

     Cotter's farm with living house and barn.  More photos    Here  
       
       
       
           
        Tar kiln    
        Restored production site for wood tar .
Photo from a "test cooking"  2001.		  
         
         
         
         
           
  Shoe maker work shop        
  Some decades ago, we had several shoe makers in the district.
Here you will find a complete work shop used by one of them.		          
      Sawing trestle     
     

Nearby the cotter's, right across the road, you find this trestle. Splitting timber by hand could be done like this:  Logs of timber were rolled onto the trestle.  One  or two men were standing upon-  and the same beneath the trestle, pushing and pulling a saw blade up and down trough a slit.   In this manner, they managed to split the log into plank and board.  Some of the houses you can see at Ulvedal shall have been build of material split  this way.

    
           
             
 

General store

          
 

Reconstructed local store with authentic interior from the 60's.  Goods from the 2nd world war. (Not for sale!) 

Under arrangements you may find local products for sale in the store.

The store is located at the planning mill next to the parking area.

      
 
   
   
   
               
 

Forge

       Lunden    
  Forge from a farm at Sølvberg. (Under reconstruction, June 2006)
The fireplace made of solid potstone is put up.  The furnace and the anvil will follow later.		       Natural amphi and a former gathering place.
Here at the culture days in July 2007 		 
       
       
       
           
               
  Cookhouse             
 

Roofed over fireplace,
dehydration flagstone for grain and a stone stove where it is possible to bake approx. 20 breads in once

          
           
           
           
               
           
 
 
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