Bakery and krambu

Comes from: Garnes in Inndalen in Verdal.
Age: From approx. 1890.
To the museum: 1983.

The building is barely 10 m long and about 6 m wide. It is set on gray stone walls, and the roof is covered with slate from Spjellberget in Sul. There are three rooms, a bakery of 24 m², a krambu which is the same size and a woodshed of 6 m².

The bakery and krambua are built of lath timber (spruce), while the extension (the wood shed) is made of timber. The baking oven is built of quarry stone, partly also of brick. The oven room itself is vaulted in refractory stone, and it has a draft system with three channels.

The building was erected by Nils Garnes, who ran a trading and shuttle station on the farm from the 1860s until he died shortly after 1900.

Trade and baking in the building was carried on until approx. 1930, after that time the bakery was partly used during the war. We also know that the krambua was used as a drying house during the war. Afterwards, the building was partly used as a warehouse and warehouse.

From ancient times, the women baked what was needed on the farms, and people shopped at markets or from peddlers who traveled around the villages. This building is an example of something new: society became more specialized when a bakery emerged and trade took place in a room that was not intended for anything else. It is typical that the need for this specialization arose at an old and important road between Trøndelag and Jemtland.