Frogner Manor

The Good Frogner (Norwegian Frogner Hovedgård ) is a manor house in Oslo, which is located in the directory named after the Good Frogner district. It is one of the oldest and largest farms in Oslo and was in the 18th and 19th centuries, wealthy families like Anker and Wegner. For it belongs to the Frogner Park, considered one of the most famous parks in Norway.

History

The original Good Frogner consisted of a two-storey wooden house, which is over 300 years old. It was operated by farmers who had lived there as a tenant. In 1750, the engineer officer Hans Jacob von Scheel bought the farm. However, as this is not the grand claims sufficed he built half-timbered walls with a plied from masonry from the walls of the wooden house. This technique came from Scheel's native Denmark, where it was used in the construction of mansions. In order to transform the estate Frogner in such, he added on the west by a cultivation for a hall that established the symmetry of the house. In the axis of symmetry, there was the front door. To continue to support the symmetry, he left the center on the top floor another full storey building space transverse to the longitudinal axis. Thus, the demands on a baroque architecture were met.

Profound changes followed with the new owner Bernt Anker, who resided on the estate from 1790. Anchor was currently the richest citizens of the town and one of the richest in Norway. The Good Frogner represented only a country seat for him; his permanent residence was the town house Paléet at Bjørvika. This house later became the royal residence, today it is no longer, however, preserved. The hall on the 1st floor anchor was too small, so he went to the east a further cultivation for a room with a size of 122 m² added. In order to preserve the symmetry, the west wing received an extension of the same size. Both extensions have been created in the same half-timbered construction, which used Scheel. Nevertheless, tried anchor the look of a pure, walled house to imitate. Thus, the framework has been glossed over in the direction of Hofplatzes with lime, the faces plastered completely and in the north, blinded towards the park, with masonry. In addition, at the corners replicated blocks of stone were installed to support the impression of a brick house.

By 1910 the city of Oslo became the owner and undertook major repairs, in which, among other things the plaster was renewed on the end faces. Mainly the truss was romanticized and painted brown, so that it be in a color contrasted from the plastered wall surfaces. This contradicted the intention armature, which strove for a classical façade.