Villa Fridheim

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Villa Fridheim
Villa Fridheim 07/02/24.JPG
Data
place Bjørøya , Krødsherad , Norway
architect Herman Major Backer
Client Svend Haug
Architectural style Swiss style
Construction year 1890-1892
Floor space 1000 m²
Coordinates 60 ° 10 '3 "  N , 9 ° 37' 51"  E Coordinates: 60 ° 10 '3 "  N , 9 ° 37' 51"  E
Villa Fridheim (Viken)
Villa Fridheim
particularities
* Fairy tale museum
  • under monument conservation
Villa Fridheim. Photo: John Erling Blad ll

Villa Fridheim is located on Bjørøya Island in the Norwegian municipality of Krødsherad and was built between 1890 and 1892 during the National Romanticism . The building is designed in the Swiss style with elements of the dragon style and now houses a fairy tale museum . The museum is mainly concerned with the collection, the narrators and editors Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe .

Building

The architect Herman Major Backer designed the house for the timber merchant Svend Haug from Drammen . The building was built in a half-timbered construction typical of Norway at the time , the reisverk , and has two storeys with large dormer windows to the south and a tower to the southwest. The building is asymmetrical and appears to be composed. It has unusually large dimensions, the 1,000 square meters of which are distributed over the two main floors, a basement, the attic and the tower. Originally all gables had a three-part, wooden gable top, the middle section of which was as long as the ground floor. It gave the house a strong expression. The mighty beams appear slim and filigree due to the size of the house. The roof is covered with slate .

“Villa Fridheim is skilte seg ut and var en sjeldenhet also inside for its own tidsepoke. Bygningene fra 1892 he representanter for en akademisk style, en blanding of historisme and romance skapt direct on arkitektens tegnebord for et meget eksklusivt and velhavende clientele. Creation of a video feed from landstedstradisjonen from 1700- and tidlig 1800-tall. Here you can se rester etter et parkanlegg som ble appendix etter forbilder fra engelske landskapsparker. Plasseringen av bygningene he influert av romantikken, the bygningene for the til traveler plutselig kommer til syne, forsvinner and dukker opp igjen. Når man kjører nedover lang Krøderen, see Villa Fridheim, nærmest som et Soria Moria slott, or the stavkirken i Tidemann and Gudes Brudeferden i Hardanger. "

- Riksantikvarens vurdering av culture minnet

“The Villa Fridheim was something special in its own era. The building represents the academic style ; a mixture of historicism and romanticism arose directly from the architect's drawing board for a very exclusive and wealthy clientele. The complex is a continuation of the country house traditions of the 18th and 19th centuries. Here you can see the remains of a park that was laid out based on the models of the English landscape garden. The placement of the building is influenced by romanticism, in which buildings suddenly appear, disappear and reappear for the traveler. If you drive downhill along Krøderen, you can see Villa Fridheim like the (fairy tale) castle Soria Moria or like the stave church in Adolph Tidemand and Hans Fredrik Gude Brudeferden in Hardanger . "

- Riksantikvaren's requirements for the cultural monument

The house was supposed to serve as a country residence for the timber merchant and his wife Thea, but Haug died in 1891 while the construction work was being carried out. After the work was completed, the widow and her children moved into the house permanently. Years later, the family converted the house into a hotel, but shortly afterwards they sold it.

The hotel was in operation from 1914 to 1960. After that it stood empty and fell into disrepair. The outer house was inhabited all the time.

Interior

Staircase with oil paintings by Egil Torin Næsheims

The original staircase has been preserved, only the fairy tale paintings were added later. The Riksantikvar sees it as a special feature in Norwegian architectural history. The original furniture has not been preserved. Nevertheless, the tiled stove and the heaters, which are still in use in winter, as well as the door handles and lamps are from the construction period.

The villa becomes a museum

After years of dilapidation, they wanted to destroy the building during a fire brigade exercise, but resistance, led by the mayor at the time, prevented the action. After the storyteller Moe became a chaplain in Krødsherad and Olberg Church , the idea of ​​setting up a fairy tale museum in the house came up. The museum has exhibited the drawings by the architect Backer, in which the buildings of the villa and other designs, e.g. the Jakobskirche in Bergen, can be seen. The plan of the main house in the villa has unfortunately disappeared.

Monument protection

The building was placed under protection in 2006 following a request from the owners to the monument protection authority, the Riksantikvar. The protection includes the main building, the auxiliary building and the area around the two buildings with the garden to the east. Furthermore, the outer and inner main elements of the main building as well as their room layout and the building materials are protected, as are all surfaces with the decor, windows, doors, frames and moldings and the fixed inventory, for example the chimneys.

Trivia

Three seasons of the television series Soria Moria were filmed in the villa from 2000 to 2001.

literature

  • Eldal, Jens Christian; Historisme i tre, «Sveitserstil», byggeskikks-romantikk and nasjonal egenart i europeisk and norsk trearkitektur på 1800-tallet , Oslo 1997 ISBN 82-00-12982-9
  • Gunnarsjaa, Arne; Norges arkitekturhistorie , Oslo 2006, ISBN 82-7935-127-2

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See monument decision Riksantikvaren. - accessed on September 22, 2013 (Norwegian)
  2. ↑ Arne Gunnarsjaa: arkitekturhistorie Norges . P. 272

Web links

Commons : Villa Fridheim  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files