Current news from Allstad

Tokagjelet Power Plant Officially Opened

OVF is working on new uses for the vicarages. The vicarages in Stokke and Hommedal have become school farm projects based on the model from Abildsø in Oslo. Now Solum Vicarage in the municipality of Skien is following in their footsteps. From January 2023, the buildings will be in full operation, offering a different and practically oriented school day. With its large vicarage residence, farm building and tenant farmer’s residence, the vicarage has the qualities suited to the concept.

Now the songs about life in the vicarage, which Geirr Lystrup wrote for OVF’s 200th anniversary last year, are being released as an album! He discovered a treasure trove of stories connected to the vicarage, and the music is available on all streaming services and CD.

OVF is collaborating with the National Jubilee “Norway in a Thousand Years”. We are making a relevant vicarage available where young people will gather for a workshop on artistic expression and an exchange of views on society and the future. The national network for the jubilee recently gathered at Eidsvoll, where, among others, His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon was present.

Kolvereid vicarage has had 400 visitors since opening in June.

Since 1657, there has been an inn in the heart of Hadeland, and since 2010, Allstad has owned the site by the Bergen Royal Road.