Skaugum
Skaugum is the residence of the Norwegian Crown Prince in the municipality of Asker about 25 kilometers southwest of Oslo .
The Skaugum estate includes a total of 48 hectares of land that is still under cultivation and 50 hectares of forest. It cannot be visited. The property is guarded by the Norwegian Royal Guard .
The history of Skaugum Manor goes back to the Middle Ages. In 1929, the Minister Baron Fritz Wedel Jarlsberg transferred the property into the private property of the Norwegian royal family when the then Crown Prince Olav Märtha of Sweden married. When the main house was destroyed in a fire in May 1930, the new building was designed by the architect Arnstein Arneberg and completed in 1932. The ground floor serves representative purposes, while the crown prince couple live in the upper rooms.
During the German occupation during the Second World War, the property served as an apartment for Reich Commissioner Josef Terboven . On the day of the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht on May 8, 1945, the latter blew himself up in his bunker in the garden of the estate. The corpse of Wilhelm Rediess , who was SS and police leader in occupied Norway and who had recently committed suicide, was also destroyed.
King Olav V lived on Skaugum until 1968, when his son Crown Prince Harald V took over the farm on the occasion of his marriage to Sonja Haraldsen . Crown Prince Haakon and Princess Mette-Marit currently live in the property. You are responsible for the operation.
Web links
- Information about Skaugum on the side of the monarchy (norw.) U. engl.
- Description of the system on the private page koenigshaus-norwegen.de
Coordinates: 59 ° 51 ′ 14.7 " N , 10 ° 26 ′ 35" E