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2 Christiania.
ikke benyttet, og det varede ikke længe, forinden de
vare bebyggede paany paa samme uregelmæssige Maade,
som tidligere.
Den nye By søgtes ophjulpen ved forskjellige
Privilegier, der bidrog til, at den efterhaanden udfoldede
en efter Forholdene ikke ubetydelig Handelsvirksomhed.
I økonomisk Henseende gik den dog snart igjen
tilbage, hvortil bidrog i væsentlig Grad tvende
Pestepe-demier, hvoraf den ene i 1654 bortrev over 1,000
Mennesker, og fiere Ildebrande, hvoraf eu som udbrød den
21de August 1686 lagde omtrent en Trediedel af Byen
i Aske i Løbet af nogle faa Timer.
Byens økonomiske Tilstand var imidlertid i det
Hele taget vistnok god i Begyndelsen af det attende
Aarhundrede, men en ny, større Ildebrand, som i 1708
ødelagde Bygningerne i fire Kvartaler og en stor Del
Søboder, og den Krig, som udbrød 1709 mellem de
forenede Riger og Sverige, og som medførte hyppige
Indkvarteringer og høie Skatter, indvirkede lammende
paa alle Virksomhedsgrene. De føleligste Tab led dog
Byen under Svenskernes Beleiring af Akershus i 1716.
I Marts Maaned besatte nemlig den svenske Arme
under Carl den tolvtes personlige Anførsel Christiania,
og ved de Ødelæggelser, som Beleiringen medførte,
ved Plyndringer og ved en paalagt høi Brandskat bleve
en stor Del af Indvaanerne forarmede.
Under de heldige Handelskonjunkturer i dette
Aarhundredes sidste Fjerdedel tiltog Byen i Velstand, og
dens betydelige Handel med Trælast bragte store
Summer i Omløb, paa samme Tid som Fabrik- og
Haand-røerksdriften hævede sig til en større Høide end tid-
Christiania.
tions of the enemy. This excellent opportunity for
regulating the consumed districts was suffered to pass
unheeded; and within a very few years they were
rebuilt in the same irregular fashion.
To promote the prosperity of the place various
privileges were granted, and commerce soon began to
thrive; but two terrible epedemies, one of which, in
1654, carried off more than a thousand of the
inhabitants, and extensive conflagrations (that on the 21st
August laying one-third of the town in ashes) gave it
a heavy blow.
Trade however was generally flourishing during
the first years of the eighteenth century; but a fearful
conflagration in 1708 destroyed well nigh half of the
city, and war with Sweden again breaking out in 1709,
the chief branches of industry were paralized. But
the siege of Akershus in 1716 entailed the heaviest
losses on the suffering city. In the month of March,
the Swedish forces, headed by the hero of Narva,
attacked the town, and what with forced contributions
and the devastations of the soldiery, the greater part
of the inhabitants were speedily empoverished.
Commerce again revived towards the close of the
century, the extensive timber trade at that period
putting large sums in circulation. But the recovery of
independence in 1814, and the repeal of the most
obnoxious of the municipal laws, gave the greatest
impetus to the trade of Christiania. Her present rank
as the first of Norwegian cities, in point of commerce
no less than population, is to nemainly ascribed to
her location at the inland extremity of a fjord traversing
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