Alvøen

Alvøen or Alvøy is a manor house located on a historic industrial site in the Laksevåg borough of the city of Bergen in Vestland county, Norway.

In 1858, Hendrik Fasmer (1835–1930) built a new papermill in Alvøen and from the late 1800s the production was concentrated on finer grades in different blends of cloths and cellulose.

Alvøen Manor was originally built as a countryside retreat for members of the Fasmer family in 1797.

The site includes Alvøen Manor together with some forty worker cottages and production buildings dating from the 1800s.

[8] Alvøen lies at the Vatlestraumen strait, west of Bergen, where the cargo ship Rocknes hit an underwater rock and capsized in January 2004.