Hillebrandtshus’ activities will be formal
Rules on the rent of one of the oldest wooden houses of Iceland are under review at Húnabyggð.
At a municipal meeting of Húnabyggð earlier this month, it was decided that the municipality’s Employment and Culture Committee would review the rules on the rent of Hillebrandtshús in Blönduós. The town bought the house, which has been considered the oldest wooden house in Iceland, in 1992.
There has been no formal operations in the house since the end of the summer 2015. Then the sea ice centers, which had been based in the house since 2006, laid down operations forever.
Various got informal use of the house
Cultural and leisure representative Húnabyggð, Kristín I. Lárusdóttir, says no formal rent applications have recently been received by the municipality. She says individual parties, for example, artists and craftsmen, have been given informal use of the house, but with the inspection of the regulation, the rent would be formally carried out. The municipality also uses the premises around the town’s adventure festival.
Hillebrandtshús inside. The house has been used under the market and art exhibitions.
mbl.is/jón Sigurðsson
Performed in 1877
Hillebrandthus has long been a quarrel of historians and it has been debated whether it is really the oldest wooden house in Iceland, as many townspeople want to mean. The argument for that statement is that the house was built on Skagaströnd in 1733 and moved to Blönduós in 1877.
The townspeople have also benefited from the house. In the summer, the premises will be used for the rhubarb festival in Blönduós, while the festival also receives a grant of ISK 500,000 from the municipality.
