Stensparken

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Stensparken is adjacent to Pilestredet Street in Oslo.

Stensparken is a park on a hill in Fagerborg in the district of St. Hanshaugen in Oslo . The hill is somewhat elongated and the subsoil consists of lump limestone . The park extends on the southern part of the hill, while on the northern part of the hill there is the Blåsen promontory with a good view of Oslo. The park was laid out in the 1890s through the 1940s.

park

The northern part of Stensparken with the children's playground.
Stensparken, place in the middle of the park.
View from Blåsen hill in east direction to the St. Hanshaugen district .
The Stensparken with the Fagerborg kirke .
The park commission inspects the park from the highest vantage point on the Blåsen hill.
The public urinal « Kjærlighetskarusellen » (love carousel), seen from Sporveisgata.

Along the park are the streets Pilestredet , Fagerborggata , Sporveisgata and Thereses gate and Stensgata, which border a farm . Most of the park is located in the Fagerborg district of Oslo and further borders Hegdehaugen and Bislett in the south.

In May 2007, experimental benches and outdoor seating began to be set up on the square in the middle of the park, which were then permanently installed from 2010 onwards. At the southern end of the park is the Fagerborg Church , which was consecrated in 1903. In the eastern part of the park at Pilestredet 72 there is a playground for children.

In the southern part of the park, a 300 cm stone sculpture by Sigrid Undset was erected in 1991 by the artist Kjersti Wexelsen Goksøyr . The Norwegian author Sigrid Undset grew up in the area and lived in the immediate vicinity of the park at Stensgata 5 and Lyder Sagens gate 10 .

The area of ​​today's Stensparken was shown in an oil painting from 1841 by Joachim Frich , under the title: "Utsikt fra Korpehaugen" (view of the body eyes).

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In the southern part of the park is the hill Blåsen with 80 moh. From the hill you have a very good view of the Oslo district of St. Hanshaugen and an overview of the surrounding area of ​​the capital and the western part of Oslo. The Blåsen hill can also be reached via Pilestredet and Stensgata . In the 1880s the hill was measured and the survey points marked with granite stones.

The writer Sigrid Undset described Blåsen as: "The joy of the little mountain ... you can see how the children grow up and the adults are there."

history

The earliest traces of settlement on Blåsen were found during excavations from the time of the Great Migration. A rampart there was probably built around 400–600 AD.

Stensparken was named in 1891 after the local Steinn farm (later Sten) or after the owner of the same name, who was north of Blåsen. In the Middle Ages, the farm and the land were part of the monastery property of the Benedictine monastery Nonneseter , and later belonged to the landowner and chancellor Jens Bjelke from 1629 . Parts of the park were bought by the municipality in 1896 for the Reiersen's paddock , which was named after the Norwegian court tailor HC Reiersen . A massive brick house was built west of the park in 1865.

The Stenparken was built in 1890 with public funds from the local schnapps distillery. In 1911, a competition was launched for a plan to build the park. Residents of the area initially protested these proposed major interventions, including the construction of a monumental building on Blåsen. The local opposition brought up further plans to use the park area as exhibition space for the Oslo business district. However, these plans were finally abandoned in 1930. In 1933, the city administration and Formanskapet decided to expand the park with a playground, swimming pool, fountain and other facilities, which could be completed by 1943.

Together with St. Hans Haugen Park , Stensparken got the only large remaining areas from the incorporations of the urban expansion of Christiania (Oslo) in 1859. In Norway, these areas are known as Bymarken (city mark or roughly: incorporated areas).

The height at the southern end of the park and the area of ​​the nearby Fagerborg kirke were formerly known as the Korpehaugen and Nattmannshaugen areas . Korpehaugen means roughly raven hill and was first used as a burial place until the 18th century. Nattmannshaugen in German about Nachtmann-Hügel or means, when transferred, racker-hill or skinner-hill. The so-called Nachtmann (Nattmann) used to be responsible in Norway to dispose of all waste in a city at night, including the slaughterhouse waste from the coverings and the carcass disposal so that no one sees anything and notices the unpleasant smells. The local knackers of the city of Oslo worked in Nattmannshaugen since 1825 and then brought the leftovers and waste to Korpehaugen , on the so-called Rabenhügel. Before that, work in Bakkehaugen was carried out until 1823 and the waste was stored. With the steady growth of the Norwegian capital, it was moved further away to Korpehaugen and Nattmannhaugen because of the unpleasant side effects . Part of Nattmannshaugen is now part of the nearby Pilestredet Park . Korpehaugen was used as a garbage dump in what is now Oslo since 1825. In the area there were also a few small buildings and an animal carcass disposal facility, as well as cover shops where the rascals and disposal companies carried out their work. In 1959 these areas, which are part of today's Stensparken, were incorporated. Due to complaints from residents and health concerns, the garbage dump, animal carcass disposal facility and cover shop were closed in 1868, and the last corresponding facility, located roughly near today's Fagerborg kirke, was demolished in 1871. The areas were then renatured and integrated into the Stensparken.

In 2007, a snack bar was opened in Stensparken , where visitors can purchase food, ice cream, soft drinks and drink coffee. However, there is no sale of alcoholic beverages, as alcohol consumption in the park is generally undesirable.

Public urinal «Kjærlighetskarusellen»

South of the park on Sporveisgata is the Kjærlighetskarusellen , a public urinal that was built in 1937 according to the plans of the Oslo city architect Harald Aars . The public urinal system was created in the style of functionalism .

The location has been a popular meeting place for gay men since the mid-1950s , and was known by the popular name Kjærlighetskarusellen ('love carousel'). The official name is Pissoaret i Stensparken ('Pissoir im Stenspark') and other common nicknames were Lykkehjulet ('Wheel of Fortune'), Den Runde tønne ('Round Barrel'), Soppen ('Mushroom') and Paraplyen ('Umbrella ').

The public urinal system is assigned a historical value in terms of architecture and the history of sewage disposal. When the twelfth "Year of Cultural Heritage" ( Kulturminneåret ) was celebrated in Norway in 2009 , the Kjærlighetskarusellen attracted particular attention. As a result, on April 15, 2009, the Kjærlighetskarusellen was added to the national list of monuments by the Riksantikvaren as part of the cultural heritage.

literature

  • Oslo byleksikon . Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget, 2000.
  • Oslo bys history . Oslo: Cappelen, 1991-1994.
  • Eva Ramm, Erling Lae and Ørnulf Olsen: St. Hanshaugen Ullevål - streiftog i byens nedre del . St. Hanshaugen Ullevål bydelsforvaltning, Oslo 1995.
  • Hans Wiggo Kristiansen: Kjærlighetskarusellen. Eldre homoseksuelle men livsfortellinger and livsløp i Norge. Sosialantropologiske Institutt, Universitetet i Oslo, Oslo 2004, ISBN 82-7720-006-4 .

Web links

Commons : Stensparken  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tobias, 2–3 / 2006, pp. 16–19: Parken på byens tak . Tobias. (pdf; 3.4 MB) Oslo Kommune, Kultur- og idrettsetaten, Byarkivet, April 6, 2010, accessed on May 11, 2013 (Norwegian).
  2. ↑ Gunnar Sørensen: Farlegg byen! (Colors of the city!) Oslo Kommunes utsmykninger. Oslo Kommune, Kulturetaten, 2009, p. 431 ISBN 978-82-90128-64-2
  3. ↑ folk.uio.no Stensparken . Geology professor Tom Andersen's website; in the menu on the left. About the survey points and geology in Stensparken and Blåsen., Dated November 8, 2010, accessed on April 11, 2013 (Norwegian)
  4. ↑ Blåsen . Automatisk fredet forsvarsanlegg fra jernalder. Riksantikvarens hjemmeside, June 1, 2010, accessed April 11, 2013 (Norwegian)
  5. ↑ Utstrekningen av det fredede området Fremdgår av Kart. Fredede bygninger, annex and områder. Plan- og bygningsetaten, 1999 from June 1, 2010, accessed on April 11, 2013 (Norwegian)
  6. ↑ Tommy Bjerke (photos): stensparken. aktivioslo.no, January 27, 2012, accessed May 11, 2013 (Norwegian).
  7. ↑ Sidsel Valum: Kjærlighetskarusellen fredes ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: Blikk from December 3, 2008 online, accessed on March 18, 2013: “enkel og god funkisform”, “kjent møtested for homofile og er derfor et spor fra gammel homohistorie, fra ei tid da møtesteder som dette ble betraktet som en Torn i øyet of the confirmed [...] " @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.blikk.no
  8. ↑ Pissoaret i Stensparken fredet , on riksantikvaren.no, accessed on March 18, 2013: "å ta vare på et sanitærhistorisk viktig eksempel på hvordan storbyen tilrettela for trivielle behov [...]."
  9. ↑ Riksantikvarens saksfremlegg i forbindelse med fredning av urinalet, som del av Kulturminneåret 2009. (pdf; 1.2 MB) In: bydel-st-hanshaugen.oslo.kommune.no. Kulturminneåret, accessed May 11, 2013 (Norwegian).

Coordinates: 59 ° 56 '  N , 10 ° 44'  E