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interesting, especially on Wednesdays and Saturdays, from 8 to 10
o’clock.
To the N. of the Torv, on the N.W. side of the harbour,
extends *Tydskebryggen, or the German Quay, bordered with a long
series of warehouses, painted white, with large windows. In front
of each rises a wooden Vippebom, or crane of simple and primitive
construction, used in unloading the fish brought to Bergen by the
Northmen’s smacks. The Tydskebrygge, the ancient Hanseatic
quarter, assumed its present form after the fire of 1702. Here
resided the clerks of the Hanseatic merchants of Bremen, Liibeck,
and other towns belonging to the League. Owing probably to the
jealousy subsisting between the rival nations, these clerks were
forbidden to marry. There were sixteen different gaards, name’d as
follows (reckoned from the Torv): Finnegaarden, Dramshusen.
Bratten, Leppen, Rævelsgamrden, Solegaarden, Kappen, Kjcelderen
(which contained the old Exchange), and the Ilolmedals, Jacobs,
Svends, Enhørnings, Breds, Bue, Engel. Søster, and Guldsho Gaarde.
Each gaard was subdivided into Staver, or suites of apartments,
belonging to different proprietors, who met on certain occasions
in their Slcyttningsstave, or council-room. A chamber of this kind
is still preserved in the Dramshus. In the Kläven, or small rooms
on the second or third floor, were lodged the servants of the
establishment. Yngvar Nielsen, in his history of Bergen
(Christiania, 1877), points out that the Skyttningsstue and the whole
arrangement of these gaards are of genuine old Norwegian origin,
and were not imported from Germany. Each gaard was presided
over by a Bygherre, and each merchant had a clerk and one or
more servants (Byløber) resident here.
The Hanseatic Museuitt in the Finnegaard (open 11-3, small fee;
catalogue, in four languages, 1 kr.), founded by Mr. W. J. Olsen, gives an
excellent representation of the manner in which the Gaards were fitted up and
contains also a collection of articles belonging to the old Hanseatic
merchants, including furniture, weapons, and tire-extinguishing apparatus,
mostly dating from the latest Hanseatic period. On the Ground-Floor were
the warehouses; on the First Floor is an outer room leading to the
SSHaven’. or office of the manager, with his eating and sleeping apartment
behind; and on the Second Floor are the ‘Kläven’. or sleeping
apartments of the clerks and servants. — As the use of fire or light in the
main building was forbidden, a common room (Skjøtstuen) for the use of
all the inmates of each Gaard, was erected at some little distance behind
it, near the vegetable gardens. The remains of only a few of these are
now extant; but one has lately been restored in the Dramshus.
On the peninsula of Nordnæs, extending from the
Torve-Almenning to the N.W., lies the greater part of the town, the
principal streets in which arc the long and busy Strand-Gade and
Markevei. In the Murulmenning is an old building called Muren
(‘the wall’), with a passage through it. One of the finest views in
llergen is obtained from the Frederiksberg (p. 73), the highest
part of the Nordnæs. At the S.E. end of the Nordnæs, and a little
to the \V. of the Torve-Almenning, lies Engen (formerly Jonsvold),
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