Hellnar

64.742502 - 23.664551Koordinaten: 64 ° 44 ' 33 "N, 23 ° 39' 52 " W

The small town is situated at the foot of Hellnar Snæfellsjökul on the south side of the Snæfellsnes peninsula. He belongs to the municipality Snæfellsbær and consists of several farms, a hotel, a cafe which is open in the summer, and the exhibition rooms of Snæfellsjökul National Park.

Special

This is an old fishing village, in earlier centuries, one of the largest on the coast of Snæfellsnes. Lived here in the 18th century more than 200 people who drove out in larger rowing boats for 8 and 10 man of the sea and led a rather poor life.

Today, hardly driven from here to fish. This happens, however, even from neighboring Arnarstapi out to where you can reach a very rewarding hike along the coast.

You live here now available from the agriculture and tourism, some summer houses and a hotel.

The information center of the Snæfellsjökul National Park is located in the resort. We first planned to move there after Hellissandur, but enough funds in view of the onset of the economic crisis from October 2008 are not sufficient.

The small church, which is extremely scenic location was consecrated in 1945. Churches there were in place since the late 19th century.

By the sea are some of the larger caves, for example, the Baðstofa, bathed by the sea. Sometimes you can go into the boat even at high tide.

Personalities

Asgrimur illi

In the 18th century here Asgrimur Vigfússon ( 1758-1829 ), a man lived with two epithets: Hellnaprestur (German pastor of Hellnar ) and Asgrimur illi ( engl. the evil Asgrimur ).

He had in his first parish fallen out as a young man in Staðarsveit with his community and did so in Hellnar again, so that he was even deprived of his office twice. With the help of influential friends, among others, However, in Copenhagen, he was able to do this every time reversed. He not only had the reputation of being personally very difficult temperament to be, but also to offend again and again against the laws of his office. For example, he blessed the marriage of a very dissolute couple, although it was known that the future husband was already married to another place.

Guðlaugur Bergmann

The owner of the guest house and later hotels in Brekkubær, Guðlaugur Bergmann (1938 - 2004), was a pioneer in environmental protection in Iceland and a shared responsibility to Snæfellsnes the Green Globe 21 has been awarded for sustainable tourism.

He had started his career as a merchant and headed to the hotel and the small publishing Leiðarljós.

Dieter Roth

The German artist Dieter Roth owned a house in Hellnar and sometimes even flew a small plane here. He had taken care for the expansion of the local airport.

His grave is located in the little cemetery of the village.