The old wharf of Bergen is a reminder of the town’s importance as part of the Hanseatic League’s trading empire from the fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth century.
Many fires, the last in 1955, have ravaged the characteristic wooden houses of Bryggen. Its rebuilding has traditionally followed old patterns and methods, thus leaving its main structure preserved, which is a relic of an ancient wooden urban structure once common in Northern Europe. Today, some 62 buildings remain of this former townscape.
Find more information about the historic harbourside at VisitBergen.com and Unesco.org.
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This UNESCO protected old merchant quarter is the only preserved business district from the Hanseatic period.
Bryggen - the Hanseatic wharf in Bergen
Source: Visit Norway
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