Hauen and Grisatorget

Behind the straight facade towards Grisatorget we find Hauen. In this neighbourhood, the street structure from the 18th century is intact. Hauen provides an insight into what old Egersund may have looked like, before neighbourhood after neighbourhood was lost to the flames. The close spacing between the buildings led to several major town fires. The way the buildings are grouped together is a typical result of an urban development that was planned on site and built as needed. Redevelopment of Hauen was discussed in the 1970s, but in 1979 the municipal council adopted a zoning plan that preserved Hauen, so you can still experience this old neighbourhood today.

From Egersundsposten 22 July 1890:

"A comical scene took place this morning in the main street. A farmer's wife came carrying a sack of piglets; one of the little thick-skinned ones had drilled a small hole in the sack with great eagerness and fell into the street. There was, however, no permanent place for it, for screaming it set off across the street. The wife put the sack down in the street and ran hastily after the lost pig, which she also caught up, but when she returned with the fugitive, the two remaining piglets had conveniently absented themselves. Things were now getting a little confused for the wife, and in her despair she asked the numerous onlookers to look after the fugitive while she searched for the other two piglets. After an hour's search she found one in a yard, and the other, to the great amusement of the shopkeepers, had found its way into a shop, where it was being trained when the wife fetched the deserter."