{{Short description|Neighborhood in Oslo, Norway}} [[File:Bydel Bjerke, Linderud & Veitvet fra Kalbakken.jpg|thumb|Overview of Linderud and the adjacent neighborhood Veitvet.]] '''Linderud''' is a neighborhood in Bjerke borough, Oslo, Norway. The area originally formed part of the estate of Linderud Manor.
==Linderud Manor== thumb|right|Linderud Manor, main building and the upper part of the garden Linderud Manor ''(Linderud gård'') was owned by the Catholic Church before the Reformation of 1536, and thereafter by the Crown.<ref name=snl>{{cite encyclopedia|year=2007|title=Linderud|encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon|editor=Henriksen, Petter|first=Terje|last=Bratberg|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo|url=http://www.snl.no/Linderud|language=Norwegian|accessdate=16 April 2009}}</ref> It was bought by Peder Griffenfeldt in 1673,<ref name=oby>{{cite encyclopedia|year=2000|title=Linderud|encyclopedia=Oslo byleksikon|edition=4|editor=Tvedt, Knut Are|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo|pages=261–262|isbn=82-573-0815-3}}</ref> then by Mogens Lauritzen in 1679, and belonged to the latter's family for over a century. By the late eighteenth century, the manor was a part of a property which included vast amounts of forest, some timber industrial sites and about 350 farms.<ref name=snl/>
Lauritzen's ancestor Mogens Larsen Monsen passed it down to his son-in-law Haagen Mathiesen<ref name=snl/> in 1802.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|year=2003|title=Haagen Mathiesen|encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon|first=Francis|last=Sejersted|authorlink=Francis Sejersted|volume=6|editor=Helle, Knut|editor-link=Knut Helle|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo|url=http://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Haagen_Mathiesen/utdypning|language=Norwegian|accessdate=11 April 2009}}</ref> Later owners include Haaken C. Mathiesen from 1875 to 1891,<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|year=2003|title=Haaken C Mathiesen|encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon|first=Francis|last=Sejersted|authorlink=Francis Sejersted|volume=6|editor=Helle, Knut|editor-link=Knut Helle|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo|url=http://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Haaken_C_Mathiesen/utdypning|language=Norwegian|accessdate=11 April 2009}}</ref> Christian Pierre Mathiesen from 1893 to 1940 and Jørgen Mathiesen from 1940.<ref name=snl2>{{cite encyclopedia|year=2007|title=Mathiesen|encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon|editor=Henriksen, Petter|first=Terje|last=Bratberg|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo|url=http://www.snl.no/Mathiesen|language=Norwegian|accessdate=16 April 2009}}</ref> Jørgen Mathiesen set up the Linderud Foundation in 1954, which now owns the main building of the manor as well as the surrounding park.<ref name=snl/> Since 1960 parts of the park are preserved due to botanical value.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dnweb12.dirnat.no/nbinnsyn/asp/faktaark.asp?iid=VV00000393|title=VV00000393, Linderud Gård|publisher=Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management|language=Norwegian|accessdate=16 April 2009|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120527001237/http://dnweb12.dirnat.no/nbinnsyn/asp/faktaark.asp?iid=VV00000393|archive-date=27 May 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Neighborhood== thumb|Linderud shopping mall. thumb|Linderud station.
The farmland surrounding Linderud manor was largely built in the 1950s and 1960s, eventually forming an urban neighborhood.<ref name=oby/> A primary and a secondary school were constructed between 1964 and 1968,<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|year=2000|title=Linderud skole|encyclopedia=Oslo byleksikon|edition=4|editor=Tvedt, Knut Are|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo|pages=262|isbn=82-573-0815-3}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia|year=2000|title=Linderud videregående skole|encyclopedia=Oslo byleksikon|edition=4|editor=Tvedt, Knut Are|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo|pages=262|isbn=82-573-0815-3}}</ref> although a school had existed in conjunction with the farming community between 1860 and 1900.<ref name=oby2>{{cite encyclopedia|year=2000|title=Linderud|encyclopedia=Oslo byleksikon|edition=4|editor=Tvedt, Knut Are|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo|pages=262|isbn=82-573-0815-3}}</ref> The Norwegian Military Academy is located at Linderud as well.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|year=2007|title=Krigsskolen|encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon|editor=Henriksen, Petter|first=Torolf|last=Rein|authorlink=Torolf Rein|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo|url=http://www.snl.no/Krigsskolen|language=Norwegian|accessdate=16 April 2009}}</ref> The shopping mall ''Linderud senter'' was opened in 1968, and enlarged in 1992<ref name=oby2/> and 2009.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.groruddalen.no/hoeye-svev-i-linderudkollen.4559708-19209.html|title=Klart for nye Linderud senter|last=Skappel|first=Hanne Mari|date=23 March 2009|work=Akers Avis Groruddalen|language=Norwegian|accessdate=17 April 2009}}</ref> Since 1966 the neighborhood is served by Linderud station of the Oslo T-bane network.<ref name=oby2/>
===Sports=== The ski jumping hill Linderudkollen share name with the area. It actually consists of four hills, constructed in 1931, 1965 and 1995, the largest with a calculation point of seventy metres.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|year=2000|title=Linderudkollen|encyclopedia=Oslo byleksikon|edition=4|editor=Tvedt, Knut Are|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo|pages=262|isbn=82-573-0815-3}}</ref> In 2009 the quarterpipe competition Arctic Challenge was staged there.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.groruddalen.no/hoeye-svev-i-linderudkollen.4559708-19209.html|title=Høye svev i Linderudkollen|last=Thorsen|first=Kay Grue|date=20 February 2009|work=Akers Avis Groruddalen|language=Norwegian|accessdate=17 April 2009}}</ref> The local multi-sports team is Linderud IL, founded on 13 December 1967, which has sections for association football, team handball, floor hockey and skiing.<ref>[http://www.linderudil.no/ Official site – Linderud IL]</ref>
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==External links== *[http://www.akersmus.no/linderud/ Linderud Manor website] {{Coord|59|56|30.746|N|10|50|0.74040|E|source:nowiki_region:NO_type:landmark|display=title}}
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