{"id":4713,"date":"2020-03-24T09:02:18","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T09:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/en\/?post_type=artikler&p=4713"},"modified":"2025-09-01T11:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T11:14:12","slug":"hamningberg-is-the-fishing-village-that-survived-the-ravages-of-war","status":"publish","type":"artikler","link":"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/en\/artikkel\/hamningberg-is-the-fishing-village-that-survived-the-ravages-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamningberg is the fishing village that survived the ravages of war"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\tIn a region almost completely destroyed by the ravages of war, there is one place that survived. Hamningberg provides a look back into the world of old Finnmark, which is otherwise almost completely lost today. Your journey takes you through a geological textbook.\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n

Hamningberg is located in the very north-east of Norway, on the shores of the Barents Sea and almost an hour by car from Vard\u00f8. What is special about Hamningberg is that this little fishing village was not destroyed in the razing of Finnmark in 1944\u201345. The German troops in the area heard rumours that the Russian forces were fast approaching, and fled before they had time to destroy the village. It is said that they ran and left food cooking on the stoves. As a result, this is one of the few places in Finnmark where you can still encounter old-fashioned houses and traditional coastal culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hamningberg was a bustling fishing community <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Around 1900, Hamningberg was one of the largest fishing villages in Finnmark and home to approximately 250 people. They primarily sold the fish they caught to the Pomors \u2013 the Russian traders who travelled to the region from Kvitsj\u00f8en every summer to buy fish and sell grain and timber. Many of the notched-join timber houses in the village were prefabricated in Russia and re-assembled in Hamningberg, as evidenced by the join technique used. Today, around 65 buildings \u2013 warehouses, boathouses, the fishing station farm, the store and the church \u2013 form a traditional Finnmark environment. The fish factory dates back to the 1950s and constitutes an intact feature of industrial history from the re-construction period.<\/p>\n\n\n

\n\t\t\t\tPractical information about Hamningberg \n\t\t\t<\/h3>
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