World Heritage Røros:  The people and the farms:  A house in Sleggveien (Slagg Street) – Tyristuggu – house no. 398

A house in Sleggveien (Slagg Street) – Tyristuggu – house no. 398

The houses in the upper part of Sleggveien have a great deal to tell us about a certain period in the mining town’s social history. In the small houses, that had neither cattle Houses nor stables, lived daily paid labourers, widows, other breadwinners and wanderers.
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Rehabilitation of Tyristuggu
Today, five houses with preservation orders in upper Sleggveien, are owned by The Røros Museum and History Society, among them is Tyristuggu with a preservation order dating fro 16th October 1940.
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Tyristuggu in Sleggveien, house no. 398 is a wooden box built up of cog-jointed logs with a built-on entrance called a porchway. The porchway is divided and the innermost, tiny room with a hearth place was the kitchen for the house.
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The Inhabitants of Tyristuggu
According to the census of 1875 a man named Ole Christensen Hitterdal usually called Ola Maela (1826-1912) who owned house no. 398. He was married to Helle Olsdatter Faetten (1814-1884) the house had only one living room and the whole family lived there.
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