Eidsvoll Verk is a village in

Eidsvoll Eidsvoll (; sometimes written as ''Eidsvold'') is a municipality in Akershus in Viken county, Norway. It is part of the Romerike traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Sundet. General information E ...

, in

Akershus Akershus () is a traditional region and current electoral district in Norway, with Oslo as its main city and traditional capital. It is named after the Akershus Fortress in Oslo. From the middle ages to 1919, Akershus was a fief and main county ...

County, Norway. It is served by

Eidsvoll Verk Station Eidsvoll Verk Station ( no, Eidsvoll Verk stasjon) is a railway station located on the Gardermoen Line at Råholt near Eidsvoll Verk in Eidsvoll, Norway. The station was taken into use in 1999 when the commuter trains to Eidsvoll started using ...

on the

Gardermoen Line The Gardermoen Line ( no, Gardermobanen) is a high-speed railway line between Oslo and Eidsvoll, Norway, running past Lillestrøm and Oslo Airport, Gardermoen. The line is long and replaced the older Hoved Line as the main line north-east of O ...

. It was the site of the former Eidsvold Iron Works. It is also the site of the Eidsvoll Manor, where the

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was signed in 1814.

Eidsvold Iron Works

Eidsvold Iron Works (''Eidsvoll Jernverk'') was a former ironworks which was in operation from 1624 to 1822. Eidsvold Verk was opened by King

Christian IV Christian IV (12 April 1577 – 28 February 1648) was King of Denmark and Norway and Duke of Holstein and Schleswig from 1588 until his death in 1648. His reign of 59 years, 330 days is the longest of Danish monarchs and Scandinavian monar ...

in 1624 as a foundry for iron, driven by water power from Andelva River. After 1634 Eidsvold Verk belonged to

Gabriel Marselis Gabriel Marselis (1609 – buried 5 April 1673) was a Danish tradesman and land owner. He was born in Hamburg, the son of the immigrated Dutch merchant Gabriel Marselis Sr. (c. 1575–1643), and was a brother of Selius Marselis. He settle ...

, King Frederick III and Hannibal Sehested. In 1660, Duke

Jacob of Courland Jacob Kettler (german: link=no, Jakob von Kettler) (Latvian: Hercogs Jēkabs Ketlers) (28 October 1610 – 1 January 1682) was one of the greatest Baltic German Dukes of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia (1642–1682). He was intelligent, s ...

purchased Eidsvold Iron Works from the Danish King and had 120 artisans relocated. The iron works was its best era of operation under Heinrich von Schlanbusch (1688-1705) who received the property as the gift of King Christian V and his son Georg Theodor (1705-1750).

Carsten Anker Carsten Tank Anker (17 November 1747 – 13 March 1824) was a Norwegian businessman, civil servant, politician and one of the Fathers of the Constitution of Norway. He was the owner of the manor house in Akershus at which the original National A ...

bought the Eidsvold Iron Works in 1794 and settled on site in 1811.

Eidsvoll Manor

Eidsvoll Manor (''Eidsvollsbygningen'') is a historic

Manor House A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals w ...

. The building was first constructed ca. 1770. As it stands today, the manor is the result of an extensive renovation and modernization in the years around 1800 by

. He took residence in Eidsvoll in 1811, rebuilding the house which is now the Eidsvoll Manor. When the building was finished, it was one of the largest and most modern private residences in the country. Inspiration had been received from the then-modern Danish and French architecture. The building bears stylistic stamp of classical architecture. The total floor area of the building is over 2,000 square meters. In 1814, the

was signed at Eidsvoll on May 17, now known as

Norwegian Constitution Day Constitution Day is the national day of Norway and is an official public holiday observed on 17 May each year. Among Norwegians, the day is referred to as ''Syttende Mai'' ("Seventeenth of May"), ''Nasjonaldagen'' ("National Day"), or ''Grunnlo ...

. Carsten Anker went bankrupt in 1822 and the estate was sold at auction in 1823. A group of private citizens by

Henrik Wergeland Henrik Arnold Thaulow Wergeland (17 June 1808 – 12 July 1845) was a Norwegian writer, most celebrated for his poetry but also a prolific playwright, polemicist, historian, and linguist. He is often described as a leading pioneer in the develop ...

organized a fundraiser that allowed them to buy the building with the pavilion and the garden. In 1851 the

Parliament of Norway The Storting ( no, Stortinget ) (lit. the Great Thing) is the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway. It is located in Oslo. The unicameral parliament has 169 members and is elected every four years bas ...

took over Eidsvoll Manor. Eventually the property was preserved and operated as a public museum. For the centennial of the

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in 1914, the national government allocated resources to restore the building to its historical figure from 1814. The government conducted for an additional restoration for the 150-anniversary of the Constitution in 1964.''Eidsvoll'' (NRK)
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References

Other source

* Eidsvoll 1814 - rikspolitisk senter (2002) ''Mitt stolte Eidsvold" - en guide til Eidsvollsbygningen'' (Eidsvoll: RK Grafisk) *Holmsen, Andreas (1950 ) ''Eidsvoll Bygds Historie'' (Oslo: Eidsvoll Bygdebokkomite)

External links

Eidsvoll Manor website
Villages in Akershus Eidsvoll {{Akershus-geo-stub