Fagerborg

Fagerborg is a parish church ( Nor.: Sogn ) and a neighborhood in the district of St. Hans Haugen of Oslo.

Description and History

The district includes the area between the Stensparken and the Majorstuen and borders Marienlyst and Adamstuen. The name Fagerborg comes from a paddock or paddock, which was roughly equivalent to the present Fagerborggata 52. To 1837 as the territory of the present-day city district was separated from the former lower Blindern farm.

Fageborg belonged to the so-called Bymarken, several incorporated areas of Christinia, today's Oslo. The first built in the 1870s, large main building in the district was later used as an orphanage and served after the Second World War as a school in 1957 and eventually demolished.

The development of Fagerborg is very different and consists of a mixture of villas and streets as residential and commercial buildings, most of which were built between 1880-1920. In the 1920s, other new streets was built in Fagerborg. The western part of the district is dominated by the residential development Jessenløkken, the gate from 1919 to 1922 at the SUHMS, Kirkeveien, ( Ring 2), Gorbitz 'gate and was built at the Jacob Aalls gate. The complex consists of a total of 37 houses, which was all built in the so-called Nordic Neo-Baroque.

In the district, the Fagerborg is videregående skole (High School Fagerborg ) and the kirke the Fagerborg. The Fagerborg kirke was built in 1903 in Art Nouveau style Østfold granite on the adjacent Stensparken.

In Fageborg the new kindergarten Fagerborg Menighetsbarnehage 2009 was built on an area of 1000 m2 arkitekter of the architectural firm Reiulf Ramstad AS, which was awarded the 2010 Norwegian Architecture Prize Sundts premie.

Gallery

View from Stensparken on Fageborg

Fageborg kindergarten by the architectural firm Reiulf Ramstad arkitekter AS

Pilestredet 85 in Fagerborg, Oslo