45 min walk
Madserud gård
- High
- Historic site
Nature site · Oslo
Olaf Ryes plass
- Standing
- Must see · Heritage site
- Rank
- Rank 40 of 3,842
About Olaf Ryes plass
Olaf Ryes plass is a roughly square park at the centre of the Grünerløkka district of Oslo. The open area was bought by the municipality from Thorvald Meyer in 1863, named in 1864 after the military leader Olaf Rye and laid out as a park in 1890. It has a bust of Eilert Sundt from 1892 and a fountain added some years later. The park is framed by four streets and three- and four-storey apartment buildings, mostly from the 1870s to 1890s; the young Edvard Munch lived in one of them in 1882–1883.
Checked 2026-11-05 · Source
Place details and sources
- Type of place
- Park OpenStreetMap · Checked 2026-09-09
- Heritage designation
- cultural heritage preservation in Norway Wikidata · Checked 2026-09-09
- Wikipedia article
- Olaf Ryes plass Wikipedia · Checked 2026-09-09
Common questions
Who is the square named after?
The military leader Olaf Rye; it was named in 1864.
When did it become a park?
In 1890.
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