The Canning City
is disappearing
The heritage of the canning industry in Stavanger is about to disappear. That is why the city of Stavanger has begun working on a specific plan to protect the city’s former canneries.
A DIGITAL EXHIBITION
In connection with this, the Label-Collecting Club
“Norway Brand” and the Norwegian Canning Museum have decided to produce the
digital Exhibition “The Canning Town is disappearing”. The Exhibition will
consist of a basic part with information about the plan to protect Stavanger’s
cannery buildings, at the same time as we produce a map showing the position of
Stavanger’s former canneries, either torn down, adapted to new purposes or preserved.
The work on the plan began with Rogaland County Council’s objections to the
zoning plan for the Soland block. Their objections were upheld by the
Directorate of Cultural Heritage. The zoning plan would include removal of the
Viking Sardine Factory, an act which would destroy the unique factory
environment in (the street) Nedre Banegate. Stavanger municipality had already
given the go-ahead for removing the historically significant building. In their
work with the Protection Plan for the canning industry, the Office for Cultural
Heritage Management in Stavanger had surveyed the cannery buildings in
Stavanger, with the following results:
- 52 cannery buildings have been destroyed,
- 5 have been significantly altered.
- 16 buildings which were not originally designed as canneries, but were used for that purpose, remain.
- 23 original cannery buildings remain.