Gamlehaugen is a Royal Castle in Bergen, Norway
Gamlehaugen is a Royal Castle in Bergen, Norway, and the residence of the Norwegian royal family in the city. Gamlehaugen has a history that goes as far back as the Middle Ages, and the list of previous owners includes many of the wealthiest men in Bergen. Today owned by the Norwegian state, the most recent private owner was Christian Michelsen, a politician and shipping magnate who later became the first prime minister of Norway after the dissolution of the union between Sweden and Norway. Michelsen commissioned the construction of the current main building at Gamlehaugen, where he would live for most of the rest of his life.
When Michelsen died in 1925, his closest friends and colleagues started a national fund-raising campaign that brought in enough money to allow the Norwegian state to purchase the property. The large English park was opened to the public the same year, and the ground floor of the house was opened as a museum two years later. Gamlehaugen has been the Norwegian royal family's residence in Bergen since 1927.
Credit and thanks to Google Earth Studio for this amazing aerial footage.
When Michelsen died in 1925, his closest friends and colleagues started a national fund-raising campaign that brought in enough money to allow the Norwegian state to purchase the property. The large English park was opened to the public the same year, and the ground floor of the house was opened as a museum two years later. Gamlehaugen has been the Norwegian royal family's residence in Bergen since 1927.
Credit and thanks to Google Earth Studio for this amazing aerial footage.
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00:00Gamlehaugen is a royal castle in Bergen, Norway, and the residence of the Norwegian royal family
00:08in the city.
00:10Gamlehaugen has a history that goes as far back as the Middle Ages.
00:14And the list of previous owners includes many of the wealthiest men in Bergen.
00:18Today owned by the Norwegian state, the most recent private owner was Christian Mikkelsen,
00:23a politician and shipping magnate who later became the first Prime Minister of Norway
00:27after the dissolution of the union between Sweden and Norway.
00:32Mikkelsen commissioned the construction of the current main building at Gamlehaugen,
00:35where he would live for most of the rest of his life.
00:38When Mikkelsen died in 1925, his closest friends and colleagues started a national fundraising
00:43campaign that brought in enough money to allow the Norwegian state to purchase the property.
00:48The large English park was opened to the public the same year, and the ground floor of the
00:52house was opened as a museum two years later.
00:56Gamlehaugen has been the Norwegian royal family's residence in Bergen since 1927.
01:01Gamlehaugen Castle in Bergen, Norway Gamlehaugen was the site of a farm as early as the Middle
01:06Ages.
01:07But it was abandoned as a result of the Black Death.
01:10In 1665, it once again became farmland, as part of the larger Fiosanger Manor.
01:15In 1809, Gamlehaugen was separated from Fiosanger.
01:19Marie Krohn, the niece of Dankert Dankertsen Krohn, who had owned Fiosanger until his death
01:24in 1795, built a mansion at Gamlehaugen.
01:28A shack Stenberg purchased Gamlehaugen in 1838.
01:31In 1864, Alexander Boll, the son of the violinist Ole Boll bought the property, however, he
01:37sold it to coppersmith Ole Andreas Gundersen only two years later.
01:42The last owner who operated Gamlehaugen as a farm was the merchant Anton Mohr, who bought
01:46it in 1878.
01:48When he died in 1890, his widow, Alethe Mohr, sold the property to a pair of artisans from
01:53Bergen.
01:54However, she was allowed to continue using the property in the main building due to a
01:58closeal in the sale contract.
02:01In 1898, Christian Michelsen, a politician and shipping magnate, bought the property.
02:06He demolished the existing main building, a Swiss chalet-style mansion, and ordered
02:11the construction of a new building in the style of a Scottish baronial-style castle.
02:15The architect was Jens Zettlitz Monrad Kielland, who would later draw the Bergen railway station
02:20and the brick buildings at Breigen.
02:22The construction was finished in 1900, and Michelsen with family moved in the next year.
02:28He delegated the task of converting the farmlands surrounding the building into a park to gardener
02:32Olav Mohan, who designed it as an English park.
02:35Barring his years as prime minister of Norway from 1905 to 1907, Christian Michelsen lived
02:41at Gamlehaugen for the remainder of his life.
02:44The main building seen from the northwest Following Michelsen's death in 1925, his closest
02:49friends and colleagues initiated a national fundraising campaign that sought to collect
02:53the money needed for the state to purchase Gamlehaugen, as well as create a fund to pay
02:58for the costs of operation and maintenance.
03:01While the campaign did not raise the goal of one million nak, the state did nevertheless
03:05buy the property.
03:06The fund eventually ran dry, and the state has paid for the upkeep since 1965.
03:12Gamlehaugen was renovated between 1989 and 1991 in preparation for Harald V and Queen
03:17Sonja's first visit as king and queen consort.
03:21Crown Prince Haakon resided at the mansion while he attended the Royal Norwegian Naval
03:24Academy in the 1990s.
03:27That is all.
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