Ekeberg

Ekeberg is a neighborhood in the city of Oslo, Norway. The Norway Cup soccer tournament takes place at Ekebergsletta every summer. "Sletta" means "the plain". The scene shown in the painting "The Scream" by Edvard Munch is Utsikten ("the view") in Ekeberg. There are a number of Iron Age grave mounds and Bronze Age ritual sites in the Ekeberg area, making it one of Oslo's oldest inhabited places. During the Middle Ages, Hovedøya Abbey had a large farm at Ekeberg; it was later taken by the crown. From 1760, the farm was run by an appointed owner, and his relatives owned the farm thereafter. A number of small homesteads under the main farm were erected in the following century. The first suburban settlers in the Ekeberg area came around 1900, and the early suburb was raised in the years prior to 1935. Many of the early houses are still present. Ekeberg belonged to Oslo from 1947. In 1926 Roald Amundsen's airship Norge stopped in Oslo on its way from Italy to Svalbard. It was moored at Ekeberg at a specially-constructed mast, the foundation of which can still be seen today at the north end of the park. The farm land (Ekebergsletta) cultivated crops until 1950, and the farm still had goats and small cattle up to 1965. The neighborhood of Ekeberg is situated on a bluff overlooking the city. During the 19th century, the air was considered excellent for tuberculosis patients. Shortl

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