Enerhaugen
Coordinates: 59°54′46.562″N 10°46′9.5772″E / 59.91293389°N 10.769327000°E
Enerhaugen is today a neighborhood in Oslo, Norway which among others includes six apartment buildings on Toyen in the borough of Gamle Oslo, located north of the neighborhood of Grønland. The site is located on a hill just south of Tøyen manor, and was largely undeveloped in the first half of the 1800s, where it then became a sort of suburb of Oslo. The streets of today's Enerhaugen is Sørligata, Enerhaugggata and Smedgata. The closest subway station is Tøyen.
In Enerhauggata 4, St. Hallvard's Church, the largest parish of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. The church is now protected and had formerly a Franciscan monastery, which is now being converted into apartments for catholic priests.
The census in 1801 recorded 43 people living on or near Enerhaugen. In 1815 the area was purchased by the city of Oslo's richest man at the time, Jørgen Young. He dismembered Enerhaugen for over 70 allotments and a few years emerged an entire suburb . Here the labor people build on affordable land and the opportunity to build simple houses of wood - out of the city with its bricked enforcement . In 1842 it was registered over 1200 people who had settled here . The settlement consisted of single storey and a half storey house made log or half-timbered houses .
It was bad conditions on Enerhaugen and cholera epidemics in 1850 affected areas east of the river Akerselva hard because of the tight housing, poor water supply and poor hygiene.
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