Nedre Solbrekken
Subfarms: Berget, Brustuen, Granli, Hovda, Kvernhusmoen,
Lundmoen, Smælasletten, Vestalien
Mountainfarms: Rotvollstølen, Slaveriet
The name Solbrekken is a “Nature Name” and can therefore
be considered one of the oldest farms in the area. It is not
known when Solbrekken got its name, however, Frøholm suggests
that it was probably from the same era as Ton and Hiei, the
neighboring farms. "Sol" = sun, "Brekken" = hill. Sunny hill.
Just when Solbrekken was divided in two is uncertain but it
is believed that it happened after the Black Death. As was
with the other farms Solbrekken was deserted during the Black
Death of 1348/49 and it wasn’t until the 1590s that people
returned and divided into Øvre Solbrekken and Nedre Solbrekken.
Today Øvre Solbrekken has the farm number 34 and Nedre Solbrekken
has 35.
Initially the same people who owned øvre Solbrekken also
owned Nedre Solbrekken. The first leaseholder that we know
of here was Gudbrand Solbrekken. He paid taxes on the land
from around 1612 until the mid 1620s. From the 1620s until
the early 1630s Tore Solbrekken was a leaseholder as well.
There was a Gjertrud Solbrekken here as early as 1627/28.
Rolf Solbrekken shared the farm with Tore in 1634/35. Bjørn
Olsson was here as early as 1636.
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