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Brusve Manor

From 1803 to 1883 it was the residence of the county sheriffs Bardo Westrum, Ole Lynum and Bernt Oluf Lynum. It was also a farm of considerable production. The census of 1835 shows that 11 people were employed on the farm. Old pictures show that there were many big and small buildings around the farmyard. Only the manor and the storehouse are left today.

By the end of 1800 the owner was Peter Holst, wing commander, later on Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister. The election of representatives from the county to the Eidsvold Assembly took place at Brusve Manor in 1814.

In 1835 king Carl Johan visited Brusve manor in connection with the opening of the road between Norway and Sweden in Verdal. Many prominent people have through the ages paid visits to the manor among them an Italian queen. The county magistrate held his meetings in the “Tingstue”/ the court room on the ground floor in the manor, and in one of the barns they had the county jail.

Brusve Manor

The Main Building / The Manor House

In 1803 the building of the main house was started and it was not completed until the 1830s. It is a great example of the Tronder building traditions combined with impulses from the empire style of the early 1800. The typical Tronder farmhouse is a long building with a sequence of rooms following, and the windows placed to get the light through the rooms.

The manor was protected in 1923. Parts of the farmhouse were made into flats for families to rent, but in 1984 the manor was reconstructed and made into a museum. Today Brusve Manor is a place for many cultural activities like concerts, art exhibitions, meetings etc. You can also rent some of the rooms for private arrangements. The Town Museum has its exhibition room on the first floor.

The Storehouse

Is mentioned in fire assessments from the mid 1800’s as one of two storehouses on the farm. Marks on the walls indicate use as a grain store. The City Museum has furnished a shop on the ground floor as an example of an old-fashioned country store.

The handicraft collection is maintained in a large room in the barn / outhouse. Here you can watch tools used by carpenters, watchmakers, goldsmiths, shoemakers, harness makers and ski makers. The art gallery is located in the other part of the outhouse and exhibitions of art, photo or museum objects are quite frequently held here.

Reinslyst

Reinslyst

is an old labourer’s housing from around 1850. It was taken apart and moved from its original site in Gamle Kongeveg only about 200 meters away and rebuilt and reopened May 12, 1985. The housing shows how people in hardship and poverty lived and worked in great contrast to the excessive mode of living of the  upper social classes.