Prestøen
Subfarm: Dokken
According to G. O. Hovi Prestøyen was actually prestegarden
of Aurdal and after Aurdal was divided up in 1801 it became
Prestegarden under Sør Aurdal. Martin Lundstein confirms
this theory by suggesting that Prestøyen was a pasture-field
for Pestegarden in Sør Aurdal.
It was quite common that the Presten, or Clergyman, the Vicar,
lived on a farm (gard) belonging to the church. He was actually
both a prest and a farmer. As the farmland on the river side
of the Etna river is very fertile and productive it was attractive
to have land there.
It was for this same reason that Anders Solberg at Solberg
farm bought Prestøyen. Solberg søndre is located up the hill
from the valley and the pastureland is poor, it is mostly
good forest land. Anders needed more and better pasture for
his cattle and so he bought this unit from the church. He
also built houses on it.
Anders Knutson Solberg and his wife Barbro Engebretsdatter
had nine children here.
The location is between Lunde farm and Madslangrud farm in
the southern part of the valley.
One of the old farmhouses was given to the Valdres Folkemuseum
at Fagernes in 1934.
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