Akershus Fortress
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Key facts
- Type
- Castle , Royal residences
- Controlled by
- Government of Norway , Norwegian Army , Norwegian royal family
- Built
- 1290s
- In use
- 1290s–present
- Materials
- Stone
- Past commanders
- Haakon IV , Haakon V , Knut Alvsson , Ove Gjedde , Frederik Gottschalk von Haxthausen , Christian Roy Kaldager
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- fortification
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Oslo Municipality
- Founded by
- Haakon V of Norway
- Owned by
- Haakon V of Norway
- Image
- I12 095 Akershus Festning.jpg
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- Commons category
- Akershus Fortress
- inception
- 1300-00-00
- time of earliest written record
- 1300-00-00
- time period
- Middle Ages
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- P12749
- Orobanche alba
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Encyclopedic overview
Akershus Castle and Fortress seen from Oslofjord Akershus Fortress (Norwegian: Akershus Festning, pronounced [ɑkəʂˈhʉːs ˈfɛ̂sːtnɪŋ]) or Akershus Castle (Norwegian: Akershus slott [ɑkəʂˈhʉːs ˈslɔtː]) is a medieval castle in the Norwegian capital Oslo that was built to protect and provide a royal residence for the city. It is located on the banks of the Oslofjord. Since the Middle Ages the fortress has been the namesake and centre of the main fief and later main county of Akershus, which was originally one of Norway's four main regions and which included most of Eastern Norway. The fortress itself was located within the Akershus main county until 1919, and also within the smaller Akershus sub-county until 1842.
The castle has also been used as a military base, a prison and is currently the temporary office of the prime minister of Norway.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Akershus Fortress” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.