Heskestad

Heskestad
Heskestad
	Village
	View of the historic railway station in Heskestad
	Heskestad Location in Rogaland county Heskestad Heskestad (Norway)
	Coordinates: 58°29′52″N06°21′33″E / 58.49778°N 6.35917°E Coordinates: 58°29′52″N06°21′33″E / 58.49778°N 6.35917°E
Country	Norway
Region	Western Norway
County	Rogaland
District	Dalane
Municipality	Lund
Elevation [1]	194 m (636 ft)
Time zone	CET (UTC+01:00)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+02:00)
Post Code	4463 Ualand

Last updated April 07, 2019

Heskestad is a village in Lund municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The village is located in the western part of Lund, along the European route E39 highway and the Sørlandet Line, about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) northwest of the village of Moi. Heskestad Station is a now-closed railway station located in the village.

Lund is a municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Dalane. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Moi. Other villages in Lund include Eik, Heskestad, and Åna-Sira. European route E39 and the Sørlandet Line both pass through Lund. Moi Station is a railway station in Lund.

Rogaland[²ruːɡɑlɑn](listen) is a county in Western Norway, bordering Hordaland, Telemark, Aust-Agder, and Vest-Agder counties. Rogaland is the center of the Norwegian petroleum industry. In 2016, Rogaland had an unemployment rate of 4.9%, one of the highest in Norway. In 2015, Rogaland had a fertility rate of 1.78 children per woman, which is the highest in the country.

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.

Heskestad is also a parish in the Church of Norway. Heskestad Church, dating back to 1904, is located in the village and it is the church for the parish, serving the western part of Lund.

The Church of Norway is an evangelical Lutheran denomination of Protestant Christianity and by far the largest Christian church in Norway, with membership mandatory for everyone until the 19th century.

Heskestad Church is a parish church in Lund municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Heskestad. The church is part of the Heskestad parish in the Dalane deanery in the Diocese of Stavanger. The white, wooden church was built in 1904 by the architect Victor Nordan. The church seats about 240 people.

Heskestad was the administrative centre of the municipality of Heskestad which existed from 1838 until 1965.^[2]

An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located.

Heskestad is a former municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The 222-square-kilometre (86 sq mi) municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1965. The administrative centre was the village of Heskestad where the Heskestad Church is located. The municipality encompassed the western part of the present-day municipality and the far northern part of the present-day municipality of Eigersund.

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References

↑ "Heskestad, Lund (Rogaland)" (in Norwegian). yr.no . Retrieved 2016-07-22.
↑ Store norske leksikon. "Heskestad" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2016-07-22.

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[1] "Heskestad, Lund (Rogaland)" (in Norwegian). yr.no . Retrieved 2016-07-22.

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Heskestad
Village
View of the historic railway station in Heskestad
Heskestad Location in Rogaland county Show map of Rogaland Heskestad Heskestad (Norway) Show map of Norway
Coordinates: 58°29′52″N06°21′33″E / 58.49778°N 6.35917°E / 58.49778; 6.35917 Coordinates: 58°29′52″N06°21′33″E / 58.49778°N 6.35917°E / 58.49778; 6.35917
Country	Norway
Region	Western Norway
County	Rogaland
District	Dalane
Municipality	Lund
Elevation^[1]	194 m (636 ft)
Time zone	CET (UTC+01:00)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+02:00)
Post Code	4463 Ualand