Norges Bank (Bergen)
Norges Bank is a listed former bank building in the Norwegian city of Bergen . Today it is used for exhibitions.
location
It is located in downtown Bergen, near the town's harbor, at the eastern end of Vågsallmenningen , at Vågsallmenningen 12. North of the house is Bankgaten .
Architecture and history
The Norwegian national bank Norges Bank had already set up a branch in what was then Bergenhus in 1816, the year it was founded. Head was Fredrik Meltzer , who held the position until his death 1855th In 1819 and 1828, the bank acquired two houses on today's property, which it used for business operations. From 1842 to 1844, the two-storey plastered building that has been preserved was constructed by city architect Ole Peter Riis Høegh . It was built of bricks in the neo-renaissance style based on the Italian - Hungarian renaissance. Plans to expand the building from 1926 were discarded on the advice of a committee with the architect Finn Berner in order to keep the house in its original state. Only minor renovations followed, mainly inside, in 1939, 1954 and 1967. From 1953 to 1956, the Norwegian politician Nils Lavik was part of the management of the branch.
The building was used as a branch of Norges Bank until 1986. In 1990 the city of Bergen bought the house. From 1997 it was used by the Format gallery, which was converted into the KRAFT center for contemporary handicrafts in 2013 and which shows, among other things, exhibitions of works by Norwegian and international artists.
Web links
- Entry in kulturminnesok.no (Norwegian)
- Norges bank in bergen byleksikon (norwegian)
- Website of the KRAFT center (Norwegian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin Schmidt, City | Trip Bergen , Reise Know-How Verlag Peter Rump, ISBN 978-3-8317-2659-2 , page 74
Coordinates: 60 ° 23 ′ 38.8 " N , 5 ° 19 ′ 35.8" E