Architecture of Norway Norway, boasting a palladian layout, a central cupola, and a classical colonnade. Collett designed several other manors and town houses. The same period saw the erection of a large number of splendid neo-classisist houses in and around all towns along the coast, notably in Halden, Oslo, Drammen, Arendal, Bergen and Trondheim, mainly wooden buildings dressed up as stone architecture. By far the largest private house in Norway is the Jarlsberg manor, renovated 1812-1814 by the Danish architect Løser for count Herman Wedel-Jarlsberg. Christiania, promoted to the status of a capital city in 1814, had practically no buildings suitable for the
History of the Jews in Norway about what happened to them in the Holocaust". However, this survey has been critiqued for being unreasonably simplistic in its classification of "harboring antisemitic attitudes". History of the Jews in Norway The Jews in Norway are one of the country's smallest ethnic and religious minorities, but have lived in Norway since the late fifteenth century. The population was devastated during the Holocaust, in which a significant portion of Norwegian Jews were murdered by Nazi Germany. Although there likely were Jewish merchants, sailors and others who entered Norway during the Middle Ages, no efforts were made to establish a Jewish community.