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Bergen's Hanseatic wharf

Bryggen

A row of pointed wooden warehouses in red, ochre and white along the harbour of Bergen.

Bryggen
Photo: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

Why Bryggen is wharf red

Bryggen is the old wharf of Bergen, on the west coast of Norway. From the 14th century it was run by German merchants of the Hanseatic League, a trading network of northern Europe, who shipped dried cod from the Arctic to the rest of the continent. The warehouses are built of timber with steep gables facing the water. Fire has destroyed them many times. The present buildings went up after a fire in 1702, on the old foundations and to the old pattern. They are painted dark red, ochre yellow and white, the traditional colours of Norwegian wooden buildings. Behind the fronts run narrow plank alleys. Bryggen has been a World Heritage Site since 1979.

Wharf red#A63A2AOchre yellow#D9A441Trim white#F2F0EAWeathered timber brown#5B4636

Values are fair approximations of what the eye sees there, not measurements.

Colours tied to Bryggen

OchreA natural earth pigment ranging from yellow to deep orange or brownFalu redA deep red paint pigment from the Falun copper mine, used on wooden houses in Sweden
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Written by the Rang desk with AI assistance. Background: "Bryggen" on Wikipedia. If you know Bryggen and we have it wrong, tell us.

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