Stabekk is a suburban centre in the municipality of

Bærum Bærum () is a municipality in the Greater Oslo Region in Norway that forms an affluent suburb of Oslo on the west coast of the city. Bærum is Norway's fifth largest municipality with a population of 128,760 (2021). It is part of the electoral ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

, west of

Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...

. It is predominantly a residential area, with many residents commuting to Oslo. As of 2005 the population was 6,261. Bærum has the highest income per capita and the highest proportion of university-educated individuals in Norway. It is one of Norway's priciest and most fashionable residential areas, leading residents to be frequently stereotyped as snobs in Norwegian popular culture. The area has some of the most conservative populace in Norway Stabekk has a commercial district, roughly divided into ''Øvre'' (Upper) Stabekk and ''Nedre'' (Lower) Stabekk, separated by a hill. There are a number of retail shops in both these sections as well as a commuter railway station served by

Drammenbanen The Drammen Line ( no, Drammenbanen) is a railway line between Oslo and Drammen, Norway, which was opened on 7 October 1872. It serves all trains west of Oslo Central Station and is owned by Bane NOR. The line opened as a narrow gauge railway, ...

. Stabekk also has a

bandy Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The international governing body for bandy is ...

field, a primary school, an upper-secondary school, a cinema, and a tennis club. The campus of the Norwegian Teachers College for Home Economics is on the architectural registr

The football team Stabæk Fotball, Stabæk I.F. originates from Stabekk, the name Stabæk being an archaic spelling, but the team has since relocated to

Bekkestua Bekkestua is a town in the municipality of Bærum, Norway, with a busy bus terminal and a station on one of Oslo's westbound T-bane lines, Kolsåsbanen. It also has its own library, police station and fire station. It has grown to be the second ...

. The bandy team of Stabæk I.F. is among the best in Norway. Stabekk Håndball is playing in the top-division in Norwegian Handball -

Grundigligaen REMA 1000-ligaen is the premier professional men's handball league in Norway. It was established in 1966, and it is currently contested by twelve teams. Sandefjord TIF is the championship's most successful team with nine titles, followed by Opps ...

Notable people

Notable people that were born or lived in Stabekk include: *

Jo Benkow Jo Benkow (born Josef Elias Benkowitz; 15 August 1924 – 18 May 2013) was a Norwegian politician and writer, notable for being an important person in the Conservative Party of Norway, and the President of the Parliament 1985–1993. He was also ...

(1924–2013), former president of the Norwegian parliament and

Høyre The Conservative Party or The Right ( nb, Høyre, nn, Høgre, , H; se, Olgešbellodat) is a liberal-conservative political party in Norway. It is the major party of the Norwegian centre-right, and was the leading party in government as part of ...

leader (conservative party) *

Christian C. A. Lange Christian Christoph Andreas Lange (August 13, 1810 – May 10, 1861) was a Norwegians, Norwegian historian and archivist. Lange was born in Bærum. After his ''examen artium'' he started studying theology and he took his comprehensive exam in the ...

(1810–1861), historian *

Ernst Sejersted Selmer Ernst Sejersted Selmer (11 February 1920 – 8 November 2006) was a Norwegian mathematician, who worked in number theory, as well as a cryptologist. The Selmer group of an Abelian variety is named after him. His primary contributions to mathemat ...

(1920 – 2006), mathematician

Gallery

File:Stabekk castle.jpg, Stabekk Castle File:Øvre Stabekk.jpg, Upper Stabekk File:Stabekk stasjon.JPG, Stabekk railway station File:Baerum Stabekk Skole IMG 9732.JPG, Stabekk Primary School File:Stabekk nordraaks vei IMG 7882.jpg, Street in Stabekk

References

{{Authority control Villages in Akershus Bærum