# Villa Paus > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Villa_Paus > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Villa_Paus.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Paus > Source revision: 1301740503 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Villa at Bygdøy, Oslo Villa Paus **Villa Paus** (*Pausvillaen*) is a listed [villa](/source/Villa) in [Oslo](/source/Oslo), Norway. It is located at *Christian Benneches vei 6* in [Bygdøy](/source/Bygd%C3%B8y).[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] ## History The villa was built in 1907 for the iron and steel industrialist [Ole Paus](/source/Ole_Paus_(businessman)) (1846-1931), a member of the [Paus family](/source/Paus_family), founder of the steel company [Ole Paus](/source/Ole_Paus_(company)) and chairman of the commercial bank [Den norske Creditbank](/source/Den_norske_Creditbank) (now [DNB ASA](/source/DNB_ASA)). It combines [Neo-Baroque](/source/Baroque_Revival_architecture) and [Art Nouveau](/source/Art_Nouveau) influences. The property comprises about 1200 square meters, including ten main rooms, rooms for servants and a big hall, and originally had around 7 [decare](/source/Decare) park and 80 metres shoreline. In the 1970s five new villas were built on parts of the park which were partitioned off.[1] During the [German occupation of Norway](/source/German_occupation_of_Norway) during [World War II](/source/World_War_II), the villa was used as the summer residence of [Josef Terboven](/source/Josef_Terboven) (1898-1945), German Civilian Administrator of Norway.[2] [3] From 1953 it was owned by the barrister Mathias Dahl-Hansen and his family. In 1997, the villa was sold to the billionaire [Petter Stordalen](/source/Petter_Stordalen), one of Norway's richest men.[1] In 1999 *Finansavisen* described the villa as Norway's most expensive residence[2] and in 2016 the business magazine *[Kapital](/source/Kapital_(magazine))* estimated the villa to be worth 150 million [kroner](/source/Norwegian_krone) (ca. 16 million euro).[4][5] In front of the villa there is a three-meter luminous statue of [Buddha](/source/Buddha). The sculpture is called "Sitting Tattoo with Mountains."[6] ## References 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Vormedal_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Vormedal_1-1) Helge Meland and Tor Inge Vormedal, *Perler ved Oslofjorden*, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9788292879450](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9788292879450), p. 152 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-db_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-db_2-1) [Finanskongens kongebolig](https://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/finanskongens-kongebolig/65556333) in [Dagbladet](/source/Dagbladet) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Josef Terboven"](https://snl.no/Josef_Terboven). *Store norske leksikon*. Retrieved October 1, 2020. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [Slik er milliardærenes Bygdøy-luksus](https://www.hegnar.no/Nyheter/Eiendom/2016/08/Slik-er-milliardaerenes-Bygdoey-luksus) in Hegnar 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Petter Stordalen"](https://snl.no/Petter_Stordalen). *Store norske leksikon*. Retrieved October 1, 2020. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** [Stordalen har tre meter høy lysende Buddha i hagen](https://www.hegnar.no/Nyheter/Personlig-oekonomi/2008/02/Stordalen-har-tre-meter-hoey-lysende-Buddha-i-hagen) i Hegnar Online 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°54′20″N 10°41′41″E / 59.9056°N 10.6948°E / 59.9056; 10.6948](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Villa_Paus¶ms=59.9056_N_10.6948_E_source:wikidata) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Villa Paus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Paus) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Paus?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.