Villa Paus

[citation needed] The villa was built in 1907 for the iron and steel industrialist Ole Paus (1846-1931), a member of the Paus family, founder of the steel company Ole Paus and chairman of the commercial bank Den norske Creditbank (now DNB ASA).

The property comprises about 1200 square meters, including ten main rooms, rooms for servants and a big hall, and originally had around 7 decare park and 80 metres shoreline.

[1] During the German occupation of Norway during World War II, the villa was used as the summer residence of Josef Terboven (1898-1945), German Civilian Administrator of Norway.

In 1997, the villa was sold to the billionaire Petter Stordalen, one of Norway's richest men.

[4][5] In front of the villa there is a three-meter luminous statue of Buddha.