Enerhaugen
59°54′46.562″N 10°46′9.5772″E / 59.91293389°N 10.769327000°E
Enerhaugen is today a neighborhood in
In Enerhauggata 4,
History
The census in 1801 recorded 43 people living on or near Enerhaugen. In 1815 the area was purchased by the city of Oslo's richest man at the time, Jørgen Young. He dismembered Enerhaugen for over 70 allotments and a few years emerged an entire suburb. Here the labor people build on affordable land and the opportunity to build simple houses of wood - out of the city with its bricked enforcement. In 1842 it was registered over 1200 people who had settled here. The settlement consisted of single storey and a half storey house made log or half-timbered houses.
It was bad conditions on Enerhaugen and cholera epidemics in 1850 affected areas east of the river Akerselva hard because of the tight housing, poor water supply and poor hygiene.
Enerhaugen was incorporated into the city of
Due to housing shortages in the
The old wooden houses were demolished in 1960 and replaced by the housing cooperative OBOS with four tower blocks (six blocks were planned) in 13 to 15 floors, designed by architect Sofus Haugen. The project was completed in 1965.
During the demolition work was found iron bolts from the time when boats were moored at Enerhaugen before the uplift caused the fjord withdrew.[4]
The streets Enerhauggata, Sørligata and Smedgata still exists, while Langleiken, Stupinngata, Johannesgata and Flisberget are street names from the old Enerhaugen which today are gone.
Enerhaugen at the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History
Five of the old houses were moved and rebuilt at the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History and furnished the basis of the census of 1865, 1891 and opened to the public in 1969. In 2011-2012, the five houses redecorated, and two of them are now decorated as homes respectively from 1909 to 1959.
References
- ^ Nils Martins InfoCenter Archived 2009-12-16 at the Wayback Machine (in Norwegian)
- ^ Kjenn din by Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine (in Norwegian)
- ^ Enerhaugen, from Byarkivet, Oslo (in Norwegian)
- ^ "Bare riv ned" (Filiologisk forening)[permanent dead link] University of Oslo (in Norwegian)