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Villa Filipstad
Villa Filipstad is a notable building in the neighborhood Filipstad in Oslo, Norway. It is located at Munkedamsveien 62. The villa is very prominent in the terrain, being situated atop a crag. It is similar to, and can be viewed from, Oscarshall across Frognerkilen. History It was commissioned by banker Jørgen Haslev Heftye, and was finished in 1864. The architect was Georg Andreas Bull (1829–1917). Heftye's family had owned the property since 1805. His son Johannes Heftye later inherited it. From 1909 the property was owned by the state, specifically the Norwegian State Railways. They used it as the director-general's residence. After the reorganization of the State Railways, the property has been owned by Rom Eiendom, a subsidiary of Bane NOR responsible for managing the commercial sections of the company's real estate. Tenants in the later years include Norwegian Directorate for Public Libraries and, currently, the company Mantena Mantena may refer to: * Immediat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oslo
Oslo ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of 1,064,235 in 2022, and the metropolitan area had an estimated population of in 2021. During the Viking Age, the area was part of Viken. Oslo was founded as a city at the end of the Viking Age in 1040 under the name Ánslo, and established as a ''kaupstad'' or trading place in 1048 by Harald Hardrada. The city was elevated to a bishopric in 1070 and a capital under Haakon V of Norway around the year 1300. Personal unions with Denmark from 1397 to 1523 and again from 1536 to 1814 reduced its influence. After being destroyed by a fire in 1624, during the reign of King Christian IV, a new city was built closer to Akershus Fortress and named Christiania in honour of the king. It became a municipality ('' formannskapsdistrikt'') on 1 January 1838. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a Dependencies of Norway, dependency, and not a part of the Kingdom; Norway also Territorial claims in Antarctica, claims the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. Norway has a population of 5.6 million. Its capital and largest city is Oslo. The country has a total area of . The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden, and is bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast. Norway has an extensive coastline facing the Skagerrak strait, the North Atlantic Ocean, and the Barents Sea. The unified kingdom of Norway was established in 872 as a merger of Petty kingdoms of Norway, petty kingdoms and has existed continuously for years. From 1537 to 1814, Norway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Andreas Bull
Georg Andreas Bull (26 March 1829 – 1 February 1917) was a Norwegian architect and chief building inspector in Oslo, Christiania (now Oslo) for forty years. He was among the major architects in the country, and performed surveying studies and archeological research. Background Bull was born in Bergen, Norway as the youngest of 10 siblings. He was a son of pharmacist Johan Storm Bull (1787–1838) and his wife Anna Dorothea Borse Geelmuyden (1789–1875). He was a brother of violinist Ole Bull and painter Knud Bull, an uncle of Edvard Hagerup Bull and Schak Bull, a granduncle of Sverre Hagerup Bull and a second cousin of Johan Randulf Bull and Anders Sandøe Ørsted Bull. Bull received drawing lessons in Bergen by the German born architect and painter Franz Wilhelm Schiertz (1813–1887) from 1843 to 1845. He then studied mechanical engineering, machine engineering at the Leibniz University Hannover, Polytechnische Schule in Hannover from 1846 to 1850, and continued his studies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filipstad, Norway
Filipstad is a neighborhood in the Frogner borough in Oslo, Norway. It serves both as a major containerization, container port and ferry terminal for the city. The Oslo-Kiel ferry docks by the Hjortneskaia at Filipstad. History The neighborhood grew from a single property ''Philipsborg'', named after the pharmacist Philip Moth, around 1650. From 1805 the property belonged to the Heftye family. The villa at the site dates from 1864 and was initiated by banker Jørgen H. Heftye who commissioned the famous architect Georg Andreas Bull, G. A. Bull for its design. The property is now represented with the mentioned building Villa Filipstad at the address ''Munkedamsveien 62''. The former Filipstad inlet (between Tjuvholmen and Munkedamsveien) used to serve as a place for bathing, but the water was contaminated by the Filipstad stream. From around 1870 the inlet was gradually filled in to serve as a future port. When the Norwegian State Railways (1883–1996), Norwegian State Railways ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscarshall
Oscarshall Palace is a ''maison de plaisance'' located in the small fjord Frognerkilen on Bygdøy in Oslo, Norway. History The palace was built from 1847 to 1852 by the Danish architect Johan Henrik Nebelong on commission from King Oscar I and Queen Joséphine of Norway and Sweden. In 1881, King Oscar II opened the palace to the public as a museum. The palace, with its secondary buildings and surrounding park, is considered to be one of the finest examples of neo-Gothic architecture in Norway and is one of the country's most important embodiments of the National Romantic style which was popular in Norway during the period. The interior was wholly constructed and decorated by Norwegian artists and artisans. The walls of the dining hall are decorated with paintings by Joachim Frich, Adolph Tidemand, and Hans Gude while the decoration and furniture in the drawing room evokes the style of the old Norwegian guildhall. Oscarshall was sold by King Carl IV to the Norwegian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frognerkilen
Frognerkilen is a bay in the inner Oslofjord of Norway, east of the Bygdøy peninsula. Its name stems from the neighbourhood Frogner, a name which was taken from a farm. It was formerly known, with Bestumkilen, under the name of Ladegaardsfjordene. This stems from older times, when Bygdøy was an island, named Ladegaardsøen. Bygdøy later became a peninsula due to post-glacial rebound, separating Bestumkilen from Frognerkilen. Propositions to reconnect Bestumkilen and Frognerkilen through a canal were made in 1928 and 1937, but not carried out. It was an important shipping port for timber in the 17th and 18th centuries, but today a large part of the bay is used as a harbour for leisure boats. During the winter, Frognerkilen was used as a venue for harness racing—from 1875 to the 1920s—as well as speed skating in the pioneer days before 1900. A skating competition between Axel Paulsen and Renke van der Zee from the Netherlands on Frognerkilen in 1885, when van der Zee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwegian State Railways (1883–1996)
The Norwegian State Railways ( or NSB) was a state-owned railway company that operated most of the rail transport in Norway, railway network in Norway. The government agency/directorate was created in 1883Historisk oversikt Norwegian National Rail Administration to oversee the construction and operation of all state-owned railways in Norway. On 1 December 1996, it was demerger, demerged to create the infrastructure operator Norwegian National Rail Administration, the train operator Vy, Norwegian State Railways and the Norwegian Railway Inspectorate. The name was taken by the train operator, although the infrastructure operator remained a government agency and is the legal successor. History Norway's first railway, the Trunk Line, was opened in 18 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rom Eiendom
Bane NOR Eiendom (''Rail NOR Property'') is a subsidiary of Bane NOR responsible for managing the commercial sections of the company's real estate. With headquarters in Oslo, the company manages of space. The vast majority of this is in or in connection with railway stations. The company owns all of the railway stations in Norway. Rom Eiendom was established in 2001 as Rom Eiendomsutvikling, with the responsibility to manage all NSB real estate not related to operations. In 2001, the management was outsourced to Aberdeen Property Investors. The present name change came as a result of the management being insourced back to the corporation in 2006. In 2007, NSB Eiendom, which owned operational real estate, was merged into Rom. Within the portfolio of Rom are large sections of the real estate at Bjørvika in Oslo and Brattøra in Trondheim, both part of the ports in the cities, which are being transformed through urban redevelopment projects. Rom owns about 70 lots with a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwegian Archive, Library And Museum Authority
The Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority ( or ) is a Norwegian government agency under the Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Equality (; short name ''Kultur- og likestillingsdepartementet'') is responsible for cultural policy, regulations and other matters related to the media and sports, and equality and non-discrimination. ... responsible for archival, library and museum services. The Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority has several web services, with kulturnett.no and the Norwegian Digital Library the most prominent. It was founded on 1 January 2003, following the merger of the Norwegian Directorate for Public Libraries, the Norwegian Museum Authority, and the National Office for Research Documentation, Academic and Special Libraries. See also * Norwegian Year of Cultural Heritage 2009 * List of museums in Norway * Government agencies in Norway External linksOfficial site(Norwegian)Kultur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mantena (company)
Mantena is a Norwegian rolling stock maintenance company owned by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries. It has workshops at Grorud and Lodalen in Oslo, Marienborg in Trondheim as well as in Skien, Drammen, Stavanger and Oresund. In addition to NSB, customers include CargoNet, Kollektivtransportproduksjon, Ofotbanen, Green Cargo, Hector Rail and Tågkompaniet. The company was separated from NSB as a separate limited company In a limited company, the Legal liability, liability of members or subscribers of the company is limited to what they have invested or guaranteed to the company. Limited companies may be limited by Share (finance), shares or by guarantee. In a c ... in 2002. It has 900 employees and head offices in downtown Oslo. MiTrans, that performs rebuilding of rolling stock, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Mantena. References External links Company web site Engineering companies of Norway Companies established in 2002 Companies based in Oslo Norwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buildings And Structures In Oslo
A building or edifice is an enclosed structure with a roof, walls and windows, usually standing permanently in one place, such as a house or factory. Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for numerous factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, land prices, ground conditions, specific uses, prestige, and aesthetic reasons. To better understand the concept, see ''Nonbuilding structure'' for contrast. Buildings serve several societal needs – occupancy, primarily as shelter from weather, security, living space, privacy, to store belongings, and to comfortably live and work. A building as a shelter represents a physical separation of the human habitat (a place of comfort and safety) from the ''outside'' (a place that may be harsh and harmful at times). buildings have been objects or canvasses of much artistic expression. In recent years, interest in sustainable planning and building practi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
