Historical Bergen - Law and order -

Fires and firemen Law and order Schools Body and health Churches and convents




	Brothels in Bergen
	The Manufactory House
	Bergen County Jail
	The prison in the old Town Hall




	Fires and firemen
	Law and order
	Schools
	Body and health
	Churches and convents


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Bergen County Jail

Today the Bergen County Jail is an incipient ruin next door to the new Town Hall. Once it was a top modern prison with facilities still new to many citizens in Bergen. The first prisoners were jailed there in 1867, and the last prisoners moved out in 1990. Since then, the old jail building has become an overgrown ghost house.

Brothels in Bergen

Many women have made a living working as prostitutes in Bergen. Prostitution has always been regarded as both shameful and illegal. Still, turning to this profession has provided many women with the best income possible in Bergen, where customers like sailors and merchants have always been available. In the nineteenth century two of the most well known brothels were found in Nøstegaten: Vestindien and De Fire Løver.