NorskElingaard Manor is beautifully situated on Onsøy outside of Fredrikstad. The place has an unknown age, but there are visible cultural remains from from the Bronze Age and onwards.
Elingaard has preserved all the elements that a manor house should have. In addition to the main house and other farm buildings, the site offers a garden with bastions, moats and carp ponds. A nature and cultural trail runs through inland, outland and forest, and along the route two of the farm's homesteads, mill pond, other ponds, burial grounds from the Bronze Age, Iron Age and Viking Age, cave road, rock carvings, bathing beach, bathhouse and other delights can be viewed.
The property has been a center of power since the beginning of the Middle Ages and archaeological excavations indicate activity back to the Viking Age. The manor you can visit today was built in 1749. The unique cellar dates back another hundred years.
The manor house has an exciting history of big politics and women's history. It is also not free for there to be ghosts at the manor house, which both guests, permanent residents and servants have experienced.
Elingaard Herregård is owned and managed by Østfoldmuseene – Fredrikstad Museum.