Blaker

Blaker
Blaker
	Village
Country	Norway
Region	Østlandet
County	Akershus
Time zone	CET (UTC+01:00)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+02:00)

Last updated March 14, 2019

Blaker is a village and a former municipality of Akershus county, Norway.

Akershus[²ɑːkəʂˌhʉːs](listen) is a county in Norway, bordering Hedmark, Oppland, Buskerud, Oslo, and Østfold; it also has a short border with Sweden (Värmland). Akershus, with a little over 614,000 inhabitants, is the second most populated county by population after Oslo. The county is named after Akershus Fortress. The county administration is in Oslo, which is not part of the county per se.

Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northwestern Europe whose territory comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula; the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard are also part of the Kingdom of Norway. The Antarctic Peter I Island and the sub-Antarctic Bouvet Island are dependent territories and thus not considered part of the kingdom. Norway also lays claim to a section of Antarctica known as Queen Maud Land.

History

The municipality was established on 1 July 1919, when Aurskog was split in two. At the time of establishment, Blaker had a population of 2,533. On 1 January 1962, Blaker with its then 2,345 inhabitants was merged with Sørum to form the new Sørum municipality.

Aurskog is a former municipality in Akershus county, Norway. The administrative centre was Aursmoen.

Sørum is a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Romerike. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Sørumsand. Sørum was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838. The municipality of Blaker was merged with Sørum on 1 January 1962.

The village is situated on the east bank of Glomma, with a railway station on Kongsvingerbanen and Blaker Fortress. The fortress was in use from 1683, expanded to a bastioned star fort in the middle of the 18th century, and decommissioned in 1820. Blaker Church (Blaker Kirke) was built in 1881. The church was huilt of wood and has 450 seats.^[1]

The Glomma, or Glåma, is Norway's longest and most voluminous river. With a total length of 621 kilometres, it has a drainage basin that covers fully 13% of Norway's surface area, all in the southern part of the country.

Blaker Fortress is a former defense facility located at the village of Blaker in Akershus, Norway.

Notable residents

Olav Djupvik, politician for the Norwegian Christian Democratic Party
Christian Birch-Reichenwald (1814-1891) Norwegian politician.

Olav Djupvik was a Norwegian politician with the Christian Democratic Party.

Christian Birch-Reichenwald was a Norwegian jurist and politician who served as mayor of Oslo, Norway.

The name

Blaker is an old district name (Norse Blakar). The meaning is unknown.

Old Norse was a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and their overseas settlements from about the 9th to the 13th century.

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References

↑ Blaker Kirke (Den Norske Kirke) Archived March 29, 2012, at the Wayback Machine .

External links

Coordinates: 60°00′14″N11°18′06″E / 60.00389°N 11.30167°E / 60.00389; 11.30167

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[1] Blaker Kirke (Den Norske Kirke) Archived March 29, 2012, at the Wayback Machine .