Øvrevoll is a district in eastern

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Geography and history

The district Øvrevoll was built around the farm Øvre Vold, which stems from the separation of Vold farm into two farms; Øvre and Nedre (Upper and Lower) Vold in 1721. Today, Øvrevoll and Voll are sometimes referred to as one district. Øvrevoll borders Jar in the south, Grav in the west,

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and Grini in the north and Voll in the east. The farm had one croft under it; Lindeberg. In 1809, Øvre Vold farm was designated as the seat of the district stipendiary magistrate, but he chose to live at Øvre Stabæk instead. In 1826 the farm was registered as having 165

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s of crop, three horses, eleven cattle and twelve sheep. It had various owners until it was bought by dentist Einar Hirsch in 1910. He soon started to parcel out lots, starting with the area around the farm around World War I. The farm's communications had been drastically improved in 1872, when the road ''Vollsveien'' from

Lysaker Lysaker is an area in Bærum Municipality, Akershus County, Norway. Lysaker is the easternmost part of Bærum and borders Oslo proper. Lysaker was initially a farming community, later becoming a residential area. Today it is primarily known as ...

opened. The main purpose was to aid the timber industry around the river Lysakerelva. ''Vollsveien'' was connected to Norwegian National Road 168 around 1930. Since 1951 the district is served by Lijordet Station on the

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, located north of the

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. Øvrevoll is the name of a bus stop, served by line 131 of

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's bus network.

Sports

Øvrevoll is famous as the site of

Øvrevoll Galoppbane Øvrevoll Galoppbane is the only Horse gait#Gallop, gallop racecourse in Norway It is located at Øvrevoll between Østerås (west), Jar, Norway, Jar (south) and Eiksmarka (north) in Bærum. It has both a turf track and an all-weather track. I ...

, Norway's only track for gallop horse racing. The idea for establishing the track came from Einar Hirsch in 1927, and approved by the central government despite local protests. Construction was carried through between 1930 and 1932. In 1984 a dirt track was added to the grass track, to allow racing and training in different kinds of weather. Proposals from track owners to build housing there have so far been turned down. The car park at the racing track was for some time used for

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and

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by the team ''Øvrevollkameratene'', founded on 26 April 1955. A clubhouse was raised further south at Jarmyra in 1968, and that open grass plain at Jar became their home field. The club was named

Øvrevoll BK Øvrevoll is a district in eastern Bærum, Norway. Geography and history The district Øvrevoll was built around the farm Øvre Vold, which stems from the separation of Vold farm into two farms; Øvre and Nedre (Upper and Lower) Vold in 1721. T ...

through most of its existence, and on 26 September 2007 it was merged to form

Øvrevoll Hosle IL Øvrevoll Hosle Idrettslag is a Norway, Norwegian multi-sports club from eastern Bærum. Organization and history Sections are bandy, baseball, association football, ski jumping, cross-country skiing (sport), cross-country skiing, and handball. ...

, with clubhouse at Hosle.

References

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