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Todays WALK is from OSLO HOSPITAL to ARCTANDERBYEN in OLD OSLO and walking back to the BARCODE. From the OLDEST to the MOST MODERN part of OSLO.
Enjoy this amazing WALKING TOUR.
Arctanderbyen, garden town built 1910–11 on the property Svingen in Ekebergskråningen. The area was the country's first garden city, built according to the English pattern. It consists of 29 vertically divided semi-detached houses in plastered brick, built 1910–11 (architects Morgenstierne & Eide), after an architectural competition announced in 1907 by Mayor Sofus Arctander (1845–1924), with the aim of creating the ideal workers' home. Each of the houses has two apartments with three rooms and a kitchen. The houses have addresses for Svingen (12–42) and Egnehjemveien (1–44). In 1930, the residents built a bust of Arctander in Egnehjemveien, made by Trygve Thorsen. On Egnehjemveien no. 1 is one of Oslo Byes Vels blue signs in memory of Arctander and the construction of the garden city.
In the middle of the area was from the beginning an industrial building where Viking Remfabrikk was located from 1909. The building, which was from 1898, was originally a bicycle factory, before it was taken over by the belt factory. It was ravaged by fire and completely rebuilt in 1947, demolished around 2000. Where the building had been located, five three- and four-storey apartment blocks were built in 2001. The construction case aroused considerable debate, when there were proposals for single-family housing better adapted to the older buildings. Byantikvaren considered this unhistorical and supported the proposal for blocks. The blocks have spacious balconies and well-prepared outdoor areas, but no significant consideration has been given to the older buildings.
In the extension of the buildings is Terrasseparken, built in 1922-23.
Old Town (Oslo)
The Old Town, between 1624 and 1925 called Oslo (Opsloe), is a district in the inner city of Oslo and belongs to the District Old Oslo as the oldest urban area within today's capital areas. The old town is located where the medieval town of Oslo lay until the city fire in 1624; The medieval city was established with an urban structure around the year 1000 and became the capital of the Norwegian Empire in 1314. After the founding of Christiania in 1624, Oslo ended up outside the new city, and was a rural area in Aker parish and municipality. During the city expansions in 1859 and 1878, Oslo was transferred from Aker municipality to Christiania municipality. In 1925, Christiania municipality changed its name to Oslo, which during the 20th century came to denote the entire former municipalities of Christiania and Aker, a much larger area than the original Oslo. From 1925, the original Oslo was thus referred to as the Old Town to distinguish it from the new municipality name.
The old town is located between Grønlia, Bjørvika, Grønland, Galgeberg and Kvaerner, and stretches a bit up Ekeberg's northern and western slopes. The area is today divided into a southern and a northern part with Bispegata and the railway field in Lodalen as a splintering center axis. Søndre Gamlebyen is also intersected by the old track for Østfoldbanen (Klypen), while Nordre Gamlebyen is intersected by Hovedbanen.
The old town is bounded on the west by Greenland, Bjørvika and Grønlia by Nordenga bridge - Kong Håkon 5.s gate, and on the east by Lodalsbruene towards Kværner. Greenland Park - Botsparken - Klosterenga - Dalehaugen borders in the north towards Greenland and Galgeberg, while Ekebergskrenten is the border in the south. Oslo gate covers the entire north-south extent of the Old Town.
Buildings and historical division
The buildings can historically be divided into three:
The Old Town's core area - the southern and central part of the Old Town, including the historic Sørenga and Loenga
Northern part of the Old Town - generally characterized by newly built streets from the end of the 19th century, when the district was engulfed by the rapidly growing capital Kristiania.
Lodalen - located between Dyveke's bridge and Lodalsbruene, has only railway areas.
The Old Town's core area (ie the southern and central part of the Old Town) has several ruins in stone and brick lying in front of the day, and large amounts of protected cultural layers underground. The core area also has some listed 18th century buildings. Inwards towards Ekebergskrenten and further upwards are a number of 18th and 19th century wooden houses that are regulated as Special Area conservation according to the Planning and Building Act. The old town has many four-storey brick tenements from the 1890s and some listed railway buildings from different eras.
