The Lorens Berg Foundation ( no, Lorens Berg-stiftelsen) is a local history foundation in the former municipality of

Andebu Andebu is a village in Sandefjord municipality, Vestfold County, and a former municipality. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Andebu. The village is surrounded by forests, mountains, and hills. Its nearest cities a ...

Vestfold Vestfold is a traditional region, a former county and a current electoral district in Eastern Norway. In 2020 the county became part of the much larger county of Vestfold og Telemark. Located on the western shore of the Oslofjord, it bordered th ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. The foundation's purpose is to stimulate local historical work in Andebu and Vestfold. In addition, the foundation is responsible for publishing a new

local history book A local history book (also known as a (rural) farm book or local chronicle; no, bygdebok), is a Norwegian publication genre describing the history and population of one or more rural settlements. Many local history books feature a short history of ...

for Andebu, operating a local history center, and running a web portal for local historical work in Andebu. The foundation was established by the Andebu Historical Association ( no, Andebu fortidslag), the municipality of Andebu, Andebu Sparebank, and the Andebu fire insurance company. The foundation is named after the local historian and the local history book author

Lorens Berg Lorens Berg (January 18, 1862 – September 14, 1924) was a Norwegian teacher and local historian. Life Berg was born in Kodal, the son of Amund Andersen (1827–1868) and Anne Kristine Sørensdatter (1822–1870). He worked as a shepherd and ...

. The foundation was established in 2008.

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External links

Lorens Berg Foundation

Lorens Berg
at the online Kodal local history book Andebu Foundations based in Norway 2008 establishments in Norway Organisations based in Sandefjord