{"id":4216,"date":"2020-06-08T13:09:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T13:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/en\/?post_type=aktiviteter&#038;p=4216"},"modified":"2025-09-01T11:03:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T11:03:49","slug":"fru-haugans-hotel-is-northern-norways-oldest-hotel","status":"publish","type":"aktiviteter","link":"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/en\/aktiviteter\/fru-haugans-hotel-is-northern-norways-oldest-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Fru Haugans Hotel is Northern Norway&#8217;s oldest  hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-vnn-ingress\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"vnn__ingress\">\n\t\t\t\tThe story of Northern Norway&#8217;s oldest hotel, Fru Haugans Hotel in Mosj\u00f8en, has everything from murder with arsenic to strong, capable women.\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">It all started in 1794, when skipper Erik Sjursen was granted royal consent to operate a &#8220;guest house and trading post&#8221;. This included trading, running a shop, selling spirits and running a hotel and was one of over 200&nbsp;trading sites along the coast of Northern Norway. He was given a site from the family farm and started business down by the River Vefsna, many years before there was a town called Mosj\u00f8en.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-arsenic-poisoning-created-commotion-over-ownership\">Arsenic poisoning created commotion over ownership<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1827 merchant Peter Heitmann died while on a fishing trip in Lofoten, probably as a result of arsenic in the food container that his wife, Anne Christine Clausdotter, had given to him. She subsequently married her lover, skipper O.H. Schr\u00f8der, who went on to become a major trader. Finally, it was Schr\u00f8der\u2019s second wife who was left at the trading post. However, by this time the trading post was past its heyday, and the focus was on running the hotel. In the meantime, Mosj\u00f8en had become a thriving lumbering town in inner Helgeland, and it had quite a Clondyke atmosphere at times. The oldest part of the current hotel complex was built in 1866. However, the hotel owners went bankrupt in 1882.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-vnn-gallery gallery-count-3\">\n\t\t<ul><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\t\t\t\t<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/357663e580135244cf0a74dffe8c231b.jpg\" data-size=\"1200x799\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"block-gallery-count\">01<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/357663e580135244cf0a74dffe8c231b.jpg\" alt=\"Summer at the hotel \u00a9 Fru Haugans Hotel\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/357663e580135244cf0a74dffe8c231b.jpg\" data-caption=\"Summer at the hotel \u00a9 Fru Haugans Hotel\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t<\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\t\t\t\t<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/5a5b5ff340a061060946d6777350935a.jpg\" data-size=\"1200x800\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"block-gallery-count\">02<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/5a5b5ff340a061060946d6777350935a-768x512.jpg\" alt=\"Dining in traditional surroundings \u00a9 Fru Haugans Hotel\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/5a5b5ff340a061060946d6777350935a.jpg\" data-caption=\"Dining in traditional surroundings \u00a9 Fru Haugans Hotel\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t<\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\t\t\t\t<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/227fadc9a59c470f1ec6f2a420deec28.jpg\" data-size=\"1200x800\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"block-gallery-count\">03<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/227fadc9a59c470f1ec6f2a420deec28-768x512.jpg\" alt=\"The hotel museum tells the history of the hotel and community \u00a9 Fru Haugans Hotel\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/227fadc9a59c470f1ec6f2a420deec28.jpg\" data-caption=\"The hotel museum tells the history of the hotel and community \u00a9 Fru Haugans Hotel\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul><div class=\"vnn-gallery-figcaptions\"><figcaption>01: Summer at the hotel \u00a9 Fru Haugans Hotel<\/figcaption><figcaption>02: Dining in traditional surroundings \u00a9 Fru Haugans Hotel<\/figcaption><figcaption>03: The hotel museum tells the history of the hotel and community \u00a9 Fru Haugans Hotel<\/figcaption><\/div>\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-mrs-haugan-took-control-in-1898\">Mrs Haugan took control in 1898<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Ellen Haugan moved to Mosj\u00f8en from \u00c5lesund in 1885, after her husband became bankrupt and suffered a nervous breakdown. To earn a living, she seized the opportunity when the hotel was put up for rent. Initially, she rented it, but she bought the hotel in 1898 for 15,000&nbsp;kroner. Mrs Haugan was an astute businesswoman, and managed to get a failing hotel back on its feet, earning the hotel a reputation for excellent food and service. The wooden hotel was gradually extended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-hotel-has-continually-adapted-to-the-clientele\">The hotel has continually adapted to the clientele <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Mrs Haugan&#8217;s daughter, Eli Jensen Hals, understood expansion in the 1930s, and the hotel was extended with 40&nbsp;new rooms in a concrete functionalist style: A new age requires new architecture. In 1940, the hotel was taken over by the Germans, and Eli cut down the flagpole to prevent the swastika flag being raised. Further extensions were carried out in the 1990s, and the last was completed in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/009595_Terje-Rakke-Nordic-Life_Helgeland-Reiseliv_Vefsn-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"sj\u00f8gata i mosj\u00f8en\" class=\"wp-image-8957\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/009595_Terje-Rakke-Nordic-Life_Helgeland-Reiseliv_Vefsn-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/009595_Terje-Rakke-Nordic-Life_Helgeland-Reiseliv_Vefsn-1024x684-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/009595_Terje-Rakke-Nordic-Life_Helgeland-Reiseliv_Vefsn-1024x684-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u00a9 Terje Rakke\/Nordic Life<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-capable-women-have-run-the-hotel-for-generations\">Capable women have run the hotel for generations <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In Elistuen, the oldest part of the hotel, four women gaze down on us from the oil canvases. Ellen Haugen, who gave the hotel its name, her youngest daughter, Eli Jensen Hals, who succeeded her, and then her niece, Eli J\u00fcrgensen, who took over in 1970, followed by J\u00fcrgensen\u2019s niece, Bj\u00f8rg J\u00fcrgensen Johannessen (in charge from 1991). Johannessen&#8217;s daughter, Ellen L\u00f8vold Strand, now runs the hotel. No other hotel in Norway has been in the same family for so long. The Ellenstuen Restaurant and Fruen Bar that tell the long history of the hotel can be found inside the old wooden hotel itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-hotel-museum-represents-a-trading-post-past\">The hotel museum represents a trading post past <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The hotel museum is decorated in the style of a house from the old trading post from the end of the 1700s. The first merchants lived here, and it has since been used as a storehouse, kitchen and staff accommodation. Gradually, old things were put in here, and the treasures went on to form a museum. The kitchen boasts stoneware from the Egersund Fayance factory, an old-fashioned ice machine and an icebox that pre-dates the electric fridge, which was kept cool with blocks of ice. A beautiful Art Nouveau lounge, four-poster beds, washstands and an organ from D\u00f8nna form part of this collection of curiosities.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-vnn-gallery gallery-count-3\">\n\t\t<ul><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\t\t\t\t<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/729609e395c2227ba1d9a542848459b1.jpg\" data-size=\"1200x800\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"block-gallery-count\">01<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/729609e395c2227ba1d9a542848459b1.jpg\" alt=\"Hotel museum artefacts \u00a9 Fru Haugans Hotel\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/729609e395c2227ba1d9a542848459b1.jpg\" data-caption=\"Hotel museum artefacts \u00a9 Fru Haugans Hotel\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t<\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\t\t\t\t<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/6a11c95c589d0877c9c09448322f6bac.jpg\" data-size=\"1200x800\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"block-gallery-count\">02<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/6a11c95c589d0877c9c09448322f6bac-768x512.jpg\" alt=\"Artefact from the past are all around at the hotel museum \u00a9 Fru Haugans Hotel\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/6a11c95c589d0877c9c09448322f6bac.jpg\" data-caption=\"Artefact from the past are all around at the hotel museum \u00a9 Fru Haugans Hotel\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t<\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\t\t\t\t<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/e7932a1a2a7eb63b292bfbb7f1750ed3.jpg\" data-size=\"1200x800\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"block-gallery-count\">03<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/e7932a1a2a7eb63b292bfbb7f1750ed3-768x512.jpg\" alt=\"Modern and comfortable sitting area \u00a9 Fru Haugans Hotel\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/e7932a1a2a7eb63b292bfbb7f1750ed3.jpg\" data-caption=\"Modern and comfortable sitting area \u00a9 Fru Haugans Hotel\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul><div class=\"vnn-gallery-figcaptions\"><figcaption>01: Hotel museum artefacts \u00a9 Fru Haugans Hotel<\/figcaption><figcaption>02: Artefact from the past are all around at the hotel museum \u00a9 Fru Haugans Hotel<\/figcaption><figcaption>03: Modern and comfortable sitting area \u00a9 Fru Haugans Hotel<\/figcaption><\/div>\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-renaissance-garden-is-down-by-the-riverside\">The Renaissance garden is down by the riverside<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Old trading posts also featured beautiful gardens, and the hotel&#8217;s garden can be found down by the River Vefsna. In keeping with the fashion at the time, the garden is very symmetrical and designed in the Renaissance style, with a summer house, water mirror, perennials and large deciduous trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-staying-at-fru-haugans\">Staying at Fru Haugans<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you stay at Fru Haugans Hotel, you are likely to have a room in the contemporary and comfortable new wing. To experience the history of the place, visit the old lounge, the old restaurant and the bar. On sunny days, a trip to the summer house in the Renaissance garden is a must. Along with&nbsp;Sj\u00f8gato, the old town in Mosj\u00f8en, Fru Haugans Hotel completes the historic part of the beautiful town at the mouth of the River Vefsna.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t<div class=\" alignwide wp-block-vnn-booking\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"vnn-booking__image\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Helgeland.png\" alt=\"\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"vnn-booking__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-visit-helgeland\">Visit Helgeland<\/h2>\n\n<p>For all the information you need about Helgeland, including Fru Haugans Hotel, check out the Visit Helgeland webpage. <\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button link-to-booking-provider-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/visithelgeland.com\/en\/hotels\/fru-haugans-hotel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here<\/a><\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"vnn__byline vnn-grid has-author has-date has-tags\"><div class=\"vnn__byline-meta\"><div class=\"vnn__byline-author\">Written by Knut Hansvold<\/div><div class=\"vnn__byline-date\">June 8, 2020<\/div><div class=\"vnn__byline-date\">Last updated September 1, 2025<\/div><\/div><div class=\"vnn__byline-tags\"><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/en\/experiences-and-activities\/?fwp_se-og-gjore=eat-and-stay\" rel=\"tag\">Eat and stay<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/en\/experiences-and-activities\/?fwp_se-og-gjore=unique-accommodations\" rel=\"tag\">Unique accommodations<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/en\/experiences-and-activities\/?fwp_omrder=helgeland\" rel=\"tag\">Helgeland<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/en\/experiences-and-activities\/?fwp_sesonger=autumn\" rel=\"tag\">Autumn<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/en\/experiences-and-activities\/?fwp_sesonger=spring\" rel=\"tag\">Spring<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/en\/experiences-and-activities\/?fwp_sesonger=summer\" rel=\"tag\">Summer<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/en\/experiences-and-activities\/?fwp_sesonger=winter\" rel=\"tag\">Winter<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/en\/experiences-and-activities\/?fwp_fasiliteter=family-friendly\" rel=\"tag\">Family Friendly<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/en\/experiences-and-activities\/?fwp_fasiliteter=groups\" rel=\"tag\">Groups<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/en\/experiences-and-activities\/?fwp_fasiliteter=universal-accessibility\" rel=\"tag\">Universal Accessibility<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":10109,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_searchwp_excluded":"","vnn_header_layout":"featured","vnn_header_layout_image_id":10109,"vnn_header_layout_image_focal_point_x":0.5,"vnn_header_layout_image_focal_point_y":0.5,"vnn_header_layout_description":"","vnn_header_layout_url":"","vnn_header_layout_url_text":"","vnn_header_layout_photographer":"Fru Haugans Hotel","vnn_header_layout_video_id":"","vnn_header_layout_yt_id":"","vnn_header_layout_vimeo_id":"","teft_location_geodata_lat":65.835596375579,"teft_location_geodata_lng":13.190691626151,"teft_cards_image_id":10109,"teft_cards_image_focal_point_x":0.5,"teft_cards_image_focal_point_y":0.5,"teft_cards_title":"","teft_cards_excerpt":"","footnotes":""},"todo":[61,107],"facilities":[15,5,21],"season":[6,8,7,16],"region":[35],"malgrupper":[22,10,23],"class_list":["post-4216","aktiviteter","type-aktiviteter","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","todo-eat-and-stay","todo-unique-accommodations","facilities-family-friendly","facilities-groups","facilities-universal-accessibility","season-autumn","season-spring","season-summer","season-winter","region-helgeland","malgrupper-culture-lover","malgrupper-friendship-bonder","malgrupper-heritage-explorer"],"feature_media_url":"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/357663e580135244cf0a74dffe8c231b.jpg","vnn_map_marker_category":{"id":107,"name":"Unique accommodations","slug":"unique-accommodations","icon":"","parentIcon":"","parent":"Eat and stay"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.5 (Yoast SEO v25.3.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fru Haugans Hotel is Northern Norway&#039;s oldest hotel - Arctic Norway<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The history of Fru Haugans Hotel includes arsenic poisoning and strong, capable women. 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