Saltnes (Settlement)

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The teacher Johannes Petersen was a significant figure in Saltnes, where he worked in the mid-1800s and again from 1870. 8966F0000002, TJÓÐSAVNIÐ

The first settlers came to the outlying village of Saltnes in 1837. The village has an important place in Faroese school history. In 1843, the materials from the old Nes Kirkja were used for the construction of a school building and a teacher’s accommodation in Saltnes, and the school, which opened in 1845, covered the villages of Saltnes, Nes, Toftir, Glyvrar and Strendur. Johannes Petersen from Klaksvík worked there as a teacher. All village schools were closed in 1854 until a new act on village schools was passed in 1872, however, Johannes Petersen was already re-employed as a teacher at the school in Saltnes in 1870. This school closed in 1895 after the construction of the school in Toftir. Johannes Petersen had retired the year before, but his daughter Johanne Petersen, who had been an assistant teacher since 1888, continued working as a teacher in Toftir for the rest of her life. Johannes Petersen was also the father of the dean Fríðrikur Petersen. Today, Saltnes has 139 inhabitants.

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