# Esviken

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Esviken on Leangbukta

Esviken is now a protected cultural heritage site

**Esviken** (formerly **Esvigen**) is a [villa](/source/Villa) surrounded by an elaborate garden. It is located on a former farm on Leangbukta bay between Vettre and Konglungen in [Asker](/source/Asker), [Norway](/source/Norway).[1][2]

## History

Industrialist [Halvor Schou](/source/Halvor_Schou) (1823–1879) and his wife Anna Cecilie Crowe (1829–1914) bought Løkenes farm in the late 1860s. They commissioned the villa to be designed by noted architect [Wilhelm von Hanno](/source/Wilhelm_von_Hanno) (1826–1882). Esviken was completed in 1872 and used by Schou and his heirs as a summer residence.[3][4]

Their daughter Birgitte Halvordine Schou (1847-1923) was married to industrialist [Einar Westye Egeberg](/source/Einar_Westye_Egeberg) (1851–1940). They inherited the villa and half of the surrounding property. Their daughter Hermine Egeberg (1881–1974) was married from 1901 to Count [Peder Anker Wedel-Jarlsberg](/source/Peder_Anker_Wedel-Jarlsberg) (1875-1954). Wedel-Jarlsberg was [Lord Chamberlain](/source/Lord_Chamberlain) for King [Haakon VII of Norway](/source/Haakon_VII_of_Norway) from 1931 to 1945 and one of the King's closest confidants for over thirty year. Esviken is located close to [Skaugum](/source/Skaugum) which was owned by the [royal family](/source/Norwegian_royal_family). The King and Queen visited Esviken many times.[5][6]

Formally, Hermine and Peder Anker Wedel-Jarlsberg took over the property in 1930, but in reality, this happened around thirty years earlier. The Wedel-Jarlsberg family extended the garden significantly. In 1960, the property was inherited by their daughter Hedevig Wedel-Jarlsberg (1913–1996), who married [Per Christian Cornelius Paus](/source/Per_Paus) (1910-1986), his wife's distant cousin and himself a descendant of the Schou family.[7]

In 1996, their children Cornelia Paus, Christopher Paus and [Peder Nicolas Paus](/source/Peder_Nicolas_Paus) inherited the property. The property was sold to [Asker](/source/Asker) municipality in 1999. The villa and garden were listed as a protected cultural heritage site by the [Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage](/source/Norwegian_Directorate_for_Cultural_Heritage) in 2006.[8] [9]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Esvikens historie"](https://www.esviken.no/historie/). esvika.no. Retrieved April 1, 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Leangbukta (bukt i Asker)"](https://lokalhistoriewiki.no/wiki/Leangbukta_(bukt_i_Asker)). lokalhistoriewiki.no. Retrieved April 1, 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Halvor Schou"](https://lokalhistoriewiki.no/index.php/Halvor_Schou). lokalhistoriewiki.no. Retrieved April 1, 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Ole Petter Bjerkek. ["Wilhelm von Hanno"](https://nkl.snl.no/Wilhelm_von_Hanno). Norsk kunstnerleksikon. Retrieved April 1, 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Einar Westye Egeberg (1851–1940)"](https://lokalhistoriewiki.no/wiki/Einar_Westye_Egeberg_(1851%E2%80%931940)). lokalhistoriewiki.no. Retrieved April 1, 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Jon Gunnar Arntzen. ["Wedel Jarlsberg"](https://snl.no/Wedel_Jarlsberg). Store norske leksikon. Retrieved April 1, 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["Paus (slekt)"](http://www.genealogi.no/wiki/index.php/Paus_(slekt)). Slektshistoriewiki. Retrieved April 1, 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** ["Paus"](https://lokalhistoriewiki.no/wiki/Paus). lokalhistoriewiki.no. Retrieved April 1, 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** [107057 Esviken](http://www.kulturminnesok.no/kulturminnesok/kulturminne/?LOK_ID=107057), [Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage](/source/Norwegian_Directorate_for_Cultural_Heritage)

## External links

- [Esviken website](http://www.esviken.no/)

v t e Paus family Early members Sir Hans Olufsson (ca. 1500), cleric Sir Hans Povelsson Paus the Elder (1587), cleric Sir Peder Povelsson Paus (1590), cleric Sir Povel Hansson Paus (1620), cleric Sir Povel Pedersson Paus (1625), cleric Sir Hans Povelsson Paus (1656), cleric Cornelius Povelsson Paus (1662), judge Peder Hansson Paus (1691), judge Hans Pedersson Paus (1721), judge Skien branch Cornelius Paus (1726), civil servant Hedevig Paus (1763) Ole Paus (1766), shipowner Henrik Johan Paus (1799), lawyer Christian Cornelius Paus (1800), governor Christopher Blom Paus (1810), shipowner Henrik Ibsen (1828), playwright Johan Altenborg Paus (1834), war commissioner Ole Paus (1846), industrialist Karl L. Paus (1856), industrialist Christopher Lintrup Paus CBE (1881), British diplomat Thorleif (von) Paus (1881), diplomat George Wegner Paus (1882), lawyer Hans Wangensten Paus (1891), engineer Robert Paus Platt OBE (1905), British diplomat Helvig (von) Paus (1909) Ole (von) Paus (1910), general Per Paus (1910), industrialist Thorleif Lintrup Paus (1912), diplomat Cecilie Paus (1943), shipping magnate Peder Paus (1945), businessman Ole Paus (1947), singer Pontine Paus (1973), shipping heir Olympia Paus (1976), shipping heir Marcus Paus (1979), composer of Herresta Count Christopher (de) Paus (1862), philanthropist Herman Paus (1897), skier, estate owner Countess Tatiana Tolstoy-Paus (1914) Henrik Ibsen Knud Ibsen Marichen Altenburg Sigurd Ibsen Altenburggården The Ibsen Family Paus family in fiction Peer Gynt Rosmersholm The Wild Duck Ghosts An Enemy of the People Hedda Gabler Drammen branch Bernhard Cathrinus Pauss (1839), theologian Henriette Pauss (1841), teacher Olav Pauss (1863), shipowner Nikolai Nissen Paus (1877), surgeon/humanitarian Augustin Paus (1881), industrialist Bernhard Paus (1910), surgeon/humanitarian Vilhelm Paus (1915), diplomat Brita Collett Paus (1917), humanitarian Nikolai Paus (1944), businessman Other Pauspur Paus collection (Paus Trajan) Herresta Kvesarum Castle Villa Paus Esviken Paus & Paus Ole Paus Company Wilh. Wilhelmsen

[59°50′00″N 10°29′08″E / 59.8333°N 10.4856°E / 59.8333; 10.4856](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Esviken&params=59.8333_N_10.4856_E_source:wikidata)

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