Military Hospital

Park in Grev Wedels plass 1, Norway

Military Hospital, Grev Wedels plass 1, the re-erected wooden building from the Empire Quarter in Akersgata. The building was originally built in 1807 as a military hospital for the existing Damløkken, designed by Jens Bang, MD and architect Johan Raphael Poúsette, as an unassuming unpanelled L-shaped two-storey building with a long and a short wing and with small-paned windows. In the 1820s, the building became part of the new national hospital Rikshospitalet when it was converted and given the imposing outward appearance that it has subsequently retained. It was given transverse panelling, a classicist portal when driving through the short wing (which admittedly was closed down) and new windows with large panes, casings with corner mouldings and keystones. In charge of these conversions were Mine Director Chr. A. Collett and Architect Chr. Grosch. The building was used as Rikshospital between 1826 and 1883, when it was taken over by the government for ministerial offices. Later on, the police and the prosecuting authority were housed here. This also applied during the war, when the Police Department and Minister of Police Jonas Lie had offices here. Just before the liberation in 1945, an action was carried out under the leadership of Gunnar Sønsteby to gain possession of police archives of the NS regime. The plans for the changed use of the Empire Quarter as a new area for go

Type:
Park

Where:
Grev Wedels plass 1, Norway

Coordinates:
59.91°N, 10.74°E

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