Frognerpark

The Frogner Park (Norwegian Frognerparken ) is a public park in Oslo. He is part of the Good Frogner; the Frogner district was named after the estate. The park includes the Vigeland Sculpture plant with numerous granite sculptures by the Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland. Most of the sculptures were created in the years 1926 until 1942.

Location

The Frogner Park is in the area of the old court of Frogner ( in Norwegian called Frogner Hovedgård ). The landscaped courtyard from the 18th century located in the western part of the park, which includes the Oslo Bymuseum (City Museum ) is located, which was drawn here in 1909. The park is also the Frogner bathroom ( Frognerbadet ) from 1954, the Frogner Stadium and tennis courts.

History

The Frognerpark goes back to the well-known already in the early modern Good Frogner. It was bought in 1790 by Bernt Anker, a chamberlain and then richest man in Norway, and expanded to about 300 acres. He was already at that time one of the largest parks in the country. In 1836, the estate of Benjamin Wegner, an industrialist and Hanseatic Consul General, were acquired. He has transformed the park as a romantic landscape park. The city of Christiania bought the manor with the Frogner Frogner Park in 1896 for 700,000 crowns and opened the park in 1904 as public park.

Flora

The park is home to Norway's largest rose collection with around 150 species. It is also significant the tree wealth; it can be found both walnut trees, as well as magnolias and lindens.