Tronka is a detached, monumental wooden building built in the classical style in the Kalvskinnet neighborhood of Trondheim.Store norske leksikon: Tronka.
The structure was built between 1836 and 1842 as the Trondheim Hospital Care Foundation for the Feeble Minded () based on a design by Gustav Adolph Lammers and Ole Peter Riis Høegh.Norsk biografisk leksikon: Peter Høegh. The name Tronka is probably derived from the French word tronc 'alms box',Støren, Wilhelm K. 1983. Sted og navn i Trondheim: et topografisk-historisk leksikon. Trondheim: Brun, p. 336.Schmidt, Olaus. 1937. Sør-Trøndelag fylkeskommune: minneskrift i anledning av formannskapslovgivningens 100-årsjubileum 1937. Trondheim: Johan Christiansens boktr., p. 114. referring to an alms box at the entrance.Wassmo, Herbjørg. 1994. Dinas bog, vol. 1. Ballerup: Nyt Dansk Litteraturselskab. The building functioned as an institution for the mentally ill until the Municipality of Trondheim took it over in 1919. The building was given protected status by the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage in 1927. The structure was taken over by the Norwegian Directorate of Public Construction and Property in 1995 and, after an extensive restoration project, in 2005 the building was put into use as office space for the directorate's Central Norway region.
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External links Norwegian Directorate of Public Construction and Property factsheet on Tronka