Christiania map & places of interest

Places in Christiania that Anne mentions while there.
(Map from 1840 by unknown – edited by Y.Haugen)
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1) Hotel du Nord (Anne and Ann’s hotel in Christiania)
2) Akershus festning /castle
3) J. Dahl (bookshop)
4) J.W. Cappelen (bookshop)
5) University (Nat. history et al.)
– Zoology collection (the birds) – “1 1/2 hour there seeing the birds”
Musée of Northern antiquities
6) P. J. Hoppe’s bookshop“Then to Hoppe’s for pencils English for Ann”
7) Cathedral (Domkirken)
8) Grûnings Løkke
9)
Royal Palace
10) Guldberg & Dzwonkowski
11) Botanic Garden

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Torvet, the Cathedral and Hoppe’s

Christiania Torv – the main square or market is just a couple of blocks from Hotel du Nord, where Anne and Ann stayed when in Christiania. The cathedral is situated at one end of the market, and Hoppe’s is right nearby. This market – now Stortorvet – is still there and a popular spot for buying blants, flowers and vegetables in summer.

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Detailed maps Svinesund to Såner and older map showing Helle & Westgaard

Svinesund to Soner (Smaalehnenes Amt)

Kart over Smaalehnenes Amt – N. Ramm og G. Munthe (1826)

(Source: Kartverket / Edits and colors: Y.Haugen 2020)

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Svinesund and Søylegården (the Norway side Inn)

Søylegården, Gamle Svinesund, as it looks today.

The inn Anne admires on entrering Norway, Søylegården, is said to have been set up in 1726; In 1830 the building was expanded with the west wing, second floor and “half-pitched” roof . The old east wing was expanded in 1840, and stands like that to this very day.

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Såner kirke

“– at Soner [Såner] at 2 Ann tried to sketch the church of wood unpainted”
(- Travel notes 29. July 1839)

Såner church as it would have looked when Anne and Ann saw it.
Inset is Anne Lister’s quick sketch done in her journal.

This church was built in the 1500s as a simple square church, and got the extentions that can be seen in this painting (owned by Rasmus Thorne) added in the 1700s. The old church had to be torn down in 1879 and it’s replacement opened in 1881

Korsegården

Korsegården used to be situated atwhat is currently a highway crossing, “the Korsegård-crossing” or Korsegårdskrysset, by the E6 in Ås, Akershus.

After the railroad arrived in the area in 1879, the building has been in use as a brewery, woodshop and homeless shelter. When the new highway was built, the house was moved to Follo Museum in Drøbak.

For hundreds of years this has been an important crossroads, the road between Oslo and Gothenburg (E6) crossing the road between Drøbak and Stockholm (E18). This was where the ancient road (oldtidsveien) went, then the Fredrikhald Kingsroad and Riksvei 1. The house can be dated back to 1725 as an inn and coach house. It has a history of drunken brawls and violence. In 1825 the inn keeper Niels Mortensen Korsegaarden killed his wife Anne Maria in a brutal way, chasing her around the house til she ended up dead in the upstairs “blue room”. Niels was sentenced to death and to have his head cut off and places on a pole, but was later pardoned to slave labour and eventually released.