Villa Grande
The Villa Grande is a residential building in the district Bygdøy of Oslo . The building was designed in 1917 by city planners and architects Christian Morgenstierne and Arne Eide for the Norwegian entrepreneur and founder of Norsk Hydro , Sam Eyde , and built until 1921, but was not completed during his lifetime. After his death in 1940, the unfinished structure became the property of the Norwegian state. The villa building was then completed and rebuilt, and from 1941 it was the residence of Vidkun Quisling and his wife Maria. The Norwegian fascist politician and prime minister lived in the villa until his arrest on May 9, 1945. During the period in which he lived, the villa was called Gimle . Quisling himself gave his domicile the name Gimle , based on Norse mythology , which means a place where the survivors of Ragnarök gather in heaven.
After Maria Quisling later moved out, the British Commander-in-Chief for Norway, General Andrew Thorne and his staff took possession of the Villa Grande and settled here from May 22, 1945 until his return to Great Britain on October 31, 1945.
The building was later renamed Villa Grande and then used for various purposes, such as: B. as a French embassy building, sanatorium and as an educational center for health professions. Since 2005 it has housed the Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies (Senter for studier av Holocaust og livssynsminoriteter) .
Cultural monument
Villa Grande has been registered with the Riksantikvaren as a cultural monument under number 90331 .
Web links
- Gimle - Villa on Bygdøy in Oslo on snl.no in the store norske leksikon
- Website of the Holocaust Centeret on hlsenteret.no (also in English)
- Kompleks 778 Villa Grande, Oslo (PDF). Description of the building on regjeringen.no from February 23, 2010.
- Villa Grande on kulturminnesok.no near Riksantikvaren
Individual evidence
- ↑ 90331 at the Riksantikvaren as a cultural monument.
Coordinates: 59 ° 53 ′ 56.2 " N , 10 ° 40 ′ 42" E