Current news from Allstad

OVF’s subsidiary Clemens Eiendom is at the forefront of creating value from the foundation’s properties. This week, the Quality Hotel in Harstad opens, with Clemens Eiendom and Harstad Skipsindustri serving as the project’s business developers. Managing director of Clemens Eiendom and chairman of the board of Hotell Kaarbø, which owns the hotel, Bernt Nordby Skøien, is optimistic on behalf of the city. - We have great confidence in both the area and the future of Northern Norway and Harstad. Quality Hotel Harstad will become the city’s new landmark and marks the beginning of the development of Kaarbøkvartalet into a new, attractive district in Harstad, says Nordby Skøien. It is Petter Stordalen’s Nordic Choice Hotels that will operate the hotel, and Stordalen looked forward to offering exciting new experiences at the new hotel when he took part in marking its opening this week. Quality Hotel Harstad offers 180 hotel rooms, a restaurant, bar, gym, and meeting and conference facilities for 340 people in Harstad’s new grand venue, Atlantis.

The tenant farmer at Sylling vicarage took action in time. He had a historic cherry tree moved from the Government Quarter to the farm by Lake Tyrifjorden. It was by no means certain that it would end well.

Geirr Lystrup wrote, commissioned by OVF in connection with the foundation’s 200th anniversary last year, a series of songs based on the history of the parsonages. Geirr himself grew up at the parsonage in Vinje, where his father Sigmund Lystrup was a pastor in the 1950s. Now there will be an album, released by Kirkelig Kulturverksted in collaboration with OVF

As an owner of land and buildings, OVF has a presence in large parts of the country. The 2021 annual report reflects the organization’s collaborative projects and strong local connections throughout Norway.

Not only has the vicarage been a central arena for community development for centuries; the gardens at several of the country's vicarages have also been invaluable in preserving the diversity of species in Norwegian flora.

If there is anything Voss needs in the town centre today, it is a plot of land and a house like this, says Linda Eide, who, together with Trude Storheim, director of Vossa Jazz, has bought the old chaplain’s residence in Voss.