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Bryggen, the old wharf of Bergen, is a reminder of the town's importance as part of the Hanseatic League's trading empire from the 14th to the mid-16th century. Many fires, the last in 1955, have ravaged the beautiful wooden houses of Bryggen but its main structure has been preserved. Many of the remaining 58 buildings are now used as artists' studios. [http://whc.unesco.org/sites/59.htm]

Bryggen, that has been on UNESCO´s World Heritage List since 1979, is beeing threat by the modern civilization. During some years the building is sinking into the ground. For soome times they thought it was becaouse the heavely traffic, so they moved the road further away from the houses. They are still sinking, and the problem seem to bee the fundament of construction under the builidngs, that have become a target for polution of some kind.