A RARE TREASURE AT THE WATER’S EDGE
If you follow the coast southwards from Bergen city centre, you will eventually notice an unusual house. With its outward facing angles, open ...
A RARE TREASURE AT THE WATER’S EDGE
If you follow the coast southwards from Bergen city centre, you will eventually notice an unusual house. With its outward facing angles, open loading hatch and large, iron loading crane, Dolviken sea cable depot is constructed to load enormous sea cables onto specially built cable ships.
The red and yellow building from 1960 is the last sea cable house in Norway which is still in operation, but its time is inexorably coming to an end. New technologies like Satellite and mobile networks are about to make sea cables antiquated. What’s going to happen to the concrete building in Søreide then? Situated as it is in one of Bergen’s most attractive plots, it is likely to have been one of those buildings that would have been demolished to make room for some attractive apartments. That’s not what Telenor Cultural Heritage wanted. Dolviken sea cable depot was given a protection order in 1997 and added to the company’s list of cultural heritage which means that the slightly tattered industrial building will be preserved and looked after for the future. Antiquarian, Ellen Hole, is pleased. In 2015 she was assigned by Telenor to evaluate the condition of this object of protection. She concluded that the sea cable depot inhabits not just a local value, but also a national and even global importance.
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Dolviken. Lagerbygg i to etasjer, hvor kabler er oppbevart i 1. etasje. Kablene ble fraktet landveis fra fabrikken og kjørt på plass inne i hallen. Et stort hull i taket gjorde det mulig å dra kabler opp og ut gjennom lasteluken i 2. etasje og ned i båt ved kaien.
Sjøkabeltjenesten i Telegrafverket var med fra starten av telekommunikasjonenes utvikling i Norge. Oppbevaring av sjøkabler og fasiliteter for på- og avlasting av disse om bord på kabelskip krevde spesielle bygg med en innredning utformet særskilt for formålet. Hele det gamle anlegget på Dolviken er originalt fra begynnelsen av 1960-årene og i relativt god stand. Telegrafverket la vekt på at bygget skulle være vakkert, forutsatt at det kunne gjøres uten vesentlig økning av byggekostnadnene.
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