Timeline · The estate is broken up

Giske is separated from the estate

1730s

At some point in the 1730s the main farm of Giske «med hele Øen» (with the whole island) is sold for 1000 rixdollars to Martinus Hørloch. The farms around Sunnmøre are not included. The island and the estate, which had belonged together since the Middle Ages, now each have their own owner.

The estate had passed on through one woman. Christen Sæd, who around 1720 had gathered most of the Giske estate and owned Giske in 1726, died, and his widow, Anne Margrethe Høyer, born in 1701, married Christian Sørensen Solgaard, county governor (amtmann) in Romsdal from 1730 until his death in 1742. With her Solgaard received a large part of the estate. In his time the main farm on Giske was separated from the rest and sold, according to Hans Strøm (1766), Jens Kraft (1831) and Peder Fylling.

Hørloch built a large two-storey farmhouse on Giske around 1730, according to Fylling. Lokalhistoriewiki writes that he bought the estate in 1736. The older sources mention only the farm with the island, and the building year suggests that he owned it before 1736. The sources disagree.

The medieval marble church stood abandoned nearby, without services since 1726. In the church sale from 1723 the king sold around 630 churches in the country for a little under 210,000 rixdollars. According to the parish priest quoted by Nicolaysen (1862), Giske church was «ikke med i kirkekjøp» (not included in the church purchase). It was a private chapel and went with the farm.

The price can be set beside another. In 1762 the main farm was sold again for 5000 rixdollars.

Sources

Hans Strøm, Søndmørs beskrivelse (1766), s. 110 til 111; Jens Kraft (1831), s. 124; Peder Fylling (1859, s. 82; 1883, s. 46 og 70); Lokalhistoriewiki, Giskegodset; SNL, Hans Hagerup; SNL, kirkesalget; Nicolaysen (1862); rapporten «Giskegodset etter 1582».