BÃldudalur
Bíldudalur is a small fishing village in the municipality Vesturbyggð in Iceland's Westfjords region. He had 2012 168 inhabitants on 1 January.
Geography
Bíldudalur located in the Bay Bildudalsvogur on Arnarfjörður.
Transport links
From the road 60 connecting the Breiðafjörður and the ferry terminal Brjánslækur with the North, the West Fjords branches on the pass Helluskarð the road 63 down to Bíldudalur from. However, this is not a dead-end street, but takes them from Bíldudalur further Tálknafjörður and Patreksfjörður, from where the road 62 again goes beyond the Kleifaheiði back to Brjánslækur. In addition, results of Bíldudalur from the road 619 northwest towards Selárdalur.
History
The town was formed gradually to a trading post of the Danes around, which was built after the introduction of monopoly trade at the beginning of the 17th century here. The area assigned to the Bíldudalur dealer extended north to the south coast of the Arnarfjörður and to the east even to the Þórskafjörður, the side of the fjord northeastern Breiðafjörður.
In the 19th century the city flourished due to commercial initiative and fisheries. Ólafur Thorlacius (1761-1815) bought in Bíldudalur after the end of the Danish trade monopoly one. He was one of the most influential merchants in Iceland at the beginning of the 19th century, bought and sold fish and trade goods and conversed own small fishing fleet. One of his successors, Pétur J. Þorsteinnsson (1854-1924) continued this successful.
Even today, the lives secluded place mainly from fishing and they specialize in catching and processing of crabs. The port was the late 60s improved and be considered as being favorable.
The local church was established in 1906 transported by Otradal there. In it are some church treasures from the 17th and 18th centuries.
The community Bíldudalur ( Bíldudalshreppur ) went together with other municipalities on June 11, 1994 in community Vesturbyggð on.
Tourist attractions
In the village there is a museum for Icelandic pop music ( Mélodíur minninganna ).
Opposite the site is the literary history important fjord Geirþjófsfjörður.
In Selárdalur you will find the recently renovated artworks by Samúel Jónsson, eg the has is trying to match the Lion Fountain in the Alhambra naïve style.
Population Development
The place was badly affected lately by rural exodus. On 1 January 2009 he had 176 inhabitants. In 1989 Bíldudalur had 397 inhabitants.
Other population figures: