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![Sash-saw](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh-375-stekka.jpg?itok=RgEApthy)
Berge
Down by the fjord on the farm Berge in Tørvikbygd, is Stekkavika – a sheltered eastward facing harbour, protected against the fjord by headlands and rocks, even manifest in the name. Here is also a comprehensive milieu of coastal industry, with boathouses and sea-sheds that belong to the farms Berge, Heradstveit and Halleråker. Belonging to the farm Berge there is also a mill-house, circular saw, workshop for sloop building, and – a little further up into the woods – the old water-powered sash-saw.
![](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/fjosangerveien_reper.jpg?itok=wT--rhNB)
![Elias Fiigenschoug’s painting of Halsnøy monastery , 1656](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_192-1.jpg?itok=9VO9I-NR)
Halsnøy Monastery
Halsnøy Monastery is situated in the midst of the lush fjord country in Sunnhordland, on one of the old spits, or “necks”, that has given name to the island. Gently sloping fields lead down to the sea on both sides, in the south towards the Kloster Fjord, to the north towards the sheltered Klostervågen.
![Hardanger fartøyvernsenter](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/torvik_beskaret.jpg?itok=N0CmeyIO)
![Lyse Monastery, reconstruction](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh-239_lysekloster.jpg?itok=bc_kHrFJ)
![The monks leave their mark at Lysekloster](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/os_24.jpg?itok=Q5bQc7i9)
Lysekloster- The monks and nature
Lysekloster was the largest agricultural property in the country when it was phased out during the Reformation in 1537. In its prime this cloister encompassed two-thirds of all the farms in Os. The monks introduced and cultivated new plant species and it was probably they who stocked the waters with fish not indigenous to the area. This legacy from the Middle Ages has left a lasting mark.
![Hans Jacob Meyer's sculpture Mother and child from 1954, steeple base, Nonneseter monastery](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_258_meyer_tarnfoten_150.jpg?itok=yxLrWpYT)
![From Rubbestadneset.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_205_wartsila_150.jpg?itok=nem7PIQE)
![Sagvåg in the early 1900s, with the gate saw and the shipyard to the right in the picture.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_210-1.jpg?itok=Vt4qxW9t)
Sagvåg
The pit saw on the property of the farm Valvatna, is the origin of the name Sagvåg. The sawmill is mentioned as early as 1564. The name of the place at that time was Fuglesalt, but soon there is only talk of Saugvog.