Kroken farm
The history and the farm today
Noblemans's estate
Ytre Kroken is one of the Norwegian landed estates that are known from Middle Ages. This large farm belonged to the Munthe family from the 18th century and onwards to 1884.
The landscape surrounding Kroken farm is like an open history book. Here is old stone fences, roads, and burial mounds where one has found traces of early settlements back to 400-AD. The Munthe House is a unique building more than 200 years old and has played a key role in the history of art, cultural life and in the building of Norway as a nation in the 19th century. It was a meeting place for scholars, explorers and Norways's leading painters of the romantic period during the first half og that century. Johannes Flintoe and Joachim Frich were frequent visitors and it was here Adolph Tidemand and Hans Gude met for the first time. Johan C Dahl used The Munthe House as a base for several walking expeditions in the magnificent countryside. It was her, in Ytre Kroken, that Dahl met the young Thomas Fearnley and brought the latter to Dredsen.
At The Munthe House, Norway's most outstanding artists of the period found inspiration in each other's company and in the surrounding majestetic landscape.
In 1884 the farm was sold, and after that the bulding was used for various purposes. Until 1957 it housed a school for home economics.
Kroken farm today/accomodation
The main house on the farm today is where we live as the 4. generation of the Kroken family. Guest section is located in the oldest part of the house where there is original furniture from the old time. There is much history in the walls. The rural Kroken was in earlier times more important when the fjord was the main thoroughfare here in Sogn. Today, Kroken farm is a quiet and peaceful place. People say, we live in a paradise! In the garden there is plenty of room, and we have our own beach line. Enjoy the occasion and take a morning dip! In the middle of the summer the sun shines to 10 p.m. Take the hiking trail and go up further into the mountains. Fairly steep terrain, but the final top is well worth the trip. On our mountain farm, Sippelhaug, you can picnic or perhaps stay in the cabin? On the farm we have milk production, and the animals go home grazing in the summer. Autumn is the time for hunting, deer and grouse hunting in the mountains.
