Originator of the Brekke Name

Originator of the Brekke Name

In the early 1800s, Ole Lien and his wife Margit came from Trodal + Tinn with their ten sons, Knut and Amund, to the district called Sandver.

They lived for a time in Sauherred before homesteading at Brekke, where they secured a 200-acre tract of timber land.

Brekke means “slope” or “high ridge” and is located in lower Telemarken, Norway, about 20 miles from Skien and Kongsberg.