Nottveit

Nottveit lies at the entrance to Mostraumen. In the Middle Ages Nottveit belonged to Munkeliv monastery. From the 1660s the farm came into private hands, and De fine family owned most of the holdings until late in the 1700s. In the property draft from 1723 it states about this farm: “…Mountain pasture ¼ Mile from the farm, fuel and wood for domestic needs, 1 flood mill, lies by the sea 51/2 miles from Bergen, standard agriculture, heavily worked and lies icebound all winter. Exists on animal husbandry and sale of firewood”. All the holders at Nottveit were independent farmers early in the 1700s. The farmers at Nottveit were in fact amongst the first to own their own farms in Modalen. The small power station that still stands there today made these farms self-sufficient with electric power until 1958.