Nadderud

It was formerly farmland under one of Bærum's larger farms, named Nadderud, but since the 1950s it has been built up with housing, several schools and sporting facilities.

Today's meaning of Nadderud is the district north and west of Bekkestua, northeast of Gjønnes, east of Haslum, south of Hosle and southwest of Grav.

Another creek, Nadderudbekken, originated at Eikeli and flowed more or less in a straight southwestern direction, and at one point formed the pond Nadderuddammen.

The farm Nadderud belonged to Hovedøya Monastery before the Protestant Reformation, then to the crown before getting a private owner from 1663, Jens Paulsen Grav.

Lower Nadderud was sold in 1900 to a trade union, and was built up under the name Egne Hjem (from 1902), except for the property Bjerkelunden which became a small park.

The farm had livestock, and also grew rare vegetables and fruits such as tomato, cucumber and melon, which proved especially important during World War I.

[5] Oslo International School has its own sports facilities, but is planning a new indoor venue adjacent to Nadderudhallen.

[9] Arena Bekkestua is an indoor venue for skateboarding, rollerblades, BMX and the like (and is also a minor concert hall).

[10] As an athletics stadium, Nadderud stadion has no warm-up field, but IL Tyrving operates a field for hammer throw and discus throw adjacent to Bekkestuabanen, because holding these events at Nadderud stadion is not compatible with maintaining a top-level football pitch.

[11] Oslo International School was established in 1963, but has not been located at Nadderud all the time, and got its current name in 1989.

[15] The Norwegian College of Elite Sport was co-located with NKI Fjernundervisning, an institution for remote education which moved to Nadderud from Lysaker in 1989.

[18] Another related school Næringsakademiet was discontinued in 2007, the same year when all above institutions were bought by the company Anthon B Nilsen.