The carriage hall
The main building at Bergen's Technical Museum, colloquially known as the Tram Hall, or more correctly the Trolley Hall, is an important part of the facility that was built for the Bergen Electric Tramway.
Established in 1897
The tramway was established in 1897, and initially ran at Lyder Sagens gate. With an increasingly extensive tram network, there was a need for a larger facility, not unlike what the Bybanen did when they moved from Kronstad to Kokstad.
In 1913, the facility at Møhlenpris opened, and it remained Sporveien's home until the opening of the new facility at Mannsverk in 1958. The opening at Mannsverk also coincides with the switch from rail transport to buses.
The tram hall was designed by Schak Bull.
Chess Bull
May 10, 1858 – January 25, 1956 (age 97)
Schak August Steenberg Bull was born on May 10, 1858, on Fagerås farm in what was then Årstad municipality.
At the age of 17 he went to Switzerland and trained as an architect at the Polytechnic University of Zurich. In 1880 he established himself in Bergen with an office in Olav Kyrresgate. Over the next 40 years he managed to leave his mark on the city and the country. Bull is considered a key architect in Norway. Many of his buildings were destroyed in the city fire of 1916, but many still form part of today's cityscape.
A few of his famous and existing buildings are;
Sandvik Church (1891), the Bergen Crafts and Industry Association's Retirement Home in Kaigaten (1884), Edvard Grieg's home Troldhaugen (1885) and Bergen Kreditbank on Vågsallmeningen (1918).
