Hanseatic Museum and Schøtstuene

Hanseatic Museum and Schøtstuene (Norwegian This quaint museum og Schøtstuene ) is a museum at Bryggen in Bergen, Norway. It focuses on the life of mountain riders of the German Hanseatic League.

Finnegaarden

The Finnegaarden, also Finnegården, is one of the twenty farms, which belonged to the historic Hanseatic quarter Tyskebryggen, Bryggen today. In the great fire in 1702 were seven-eighths of all the buildings that were mostly built of wood, destroyed, but it was followed by a style faithful reconstruction. The fire and the reconstruction is the term of office of the secretary of the German Hanseatic Bryggen in Bergen on Christian Wilhelm Höltich, whose portrait is the same as an oil painting is in the entrance area of the museum. Since 1979, Bryggen is with its about 60 buildings on the list of world cultural heritage by UNESCO. 1704 Finn Gaarden was rebuilt. This office building was built in 1872, the Hanseatic Museum housed. At the opening on June 26, 1872 Prince Oscar Frederik was present, which shortly thereafter was as Oscar II, King of Norway and Sweden. Christian Koren Wiberg (* 1870, † 1945) was the first director of the museum. As the collection grew, he had an extension built to a design by architect Conrad Fredrik von der Lippe. 1901 Finnegaarden been authentically restored. The rear part of Finnegaarden has been corrected and adjusted in 1982 under the direction of architect Øivind Maurseth.

Museum

The museum is the only one of the buildings at Bryggen, which still has the original interior. It includes two trade offices, a lake and a country office, sleeps for apprentices and a guest room. 1916, the Museum of the city of Bergen was passed. The Hanseatic Museum and the Schøtstuene to 2005 were managed by mountains, from 2005, in addition to some other Norwegian museums, the Museum Vest organization, but only managed. Houses and collection remained the property of the city of Bergen. Included in the entrance fee of the museum is to visit the Schøtstuene.

Schøtstuene

The Schøtstuene, also Schötstuene, Schøtstuene or Schütting, are walking away just five minutes. They are located next to St. Mary's Church, the main church of the German merchants at Bryggen. The Schøtstuene served the Hanseatic merchants in the winter as meeting rooms. Because of the constant risk of fire, these houses were built some distance from the other courts at Bryggen. During the winter here the hot meals were served, otherwise the building was used as a court, meeting and banquet halls. The museum has three meeting rooms and a fire house in which boiled, baked and was fried.