Hurdal

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Hurdal Municipality
Hurdal kommune
Municipality
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Flag
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Coat of arms
Norway Counties Akershus Position.svg
Akershus within Norway
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Hurdal within Akershus
Coordinates: 60°24′57″N11°0′31″E / 60.41583°N 11.00861°E / 60.41583; 11.00861
Country Norway
County Akershus
District Romerike
Administrative centreHurdal
Government
 • Mayor (2013)Runar Bålsrud (V)
Area
 • Total285 km2 (110 sq mi)
 • Land261 km2 (101 sq mi)
 • Rank#284 in Norway
Population
 (2004)
 • Total2,679
 • Rank#292 in Norway
 • Density10/km2 (30/sq mi)
 • Change (10 years)
Increase2.svg +5.4%
Demonym(s) Hurdaling or
Hurdøling [1]
Official language
[2]
 •  Norwegian form Bokmål
Time zone UTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code NO-3242 [3]
Website Official website
Data from Statistics Norway

Hurdal 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 Hurdal.

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Hurdal is located about 70 kilometres (40 mi) north of Oslo, along the lake Hurdalsjøen. Fjellsjøkampen is the highest hill in Akershus. The mountains Faksebrennkollene and Toppåsen are also located in the municipality.

General information

Name

The name (Old Norse: Urðardalr and Hurðardalr) is an old district name. (The name of the church site is Gjøing.) The first element is the genitive case of an old river name (later called Gjøingelva which means "Gjøing river"), probably Urð which means "stony river" (from urð which means "scree"). (The sideform Hurðardalr has an addition of a false /h/.) The last element is dalr meaning "valley" or "dale". Prior to 1918, the name was spelled "Hurdalen".

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted in 1988. The arms are green with a yellow-colored cone from a Norway Spruce tree (Picea abies). [4]

Number of minorities (1st and 2nd generation) in Hurdal by country of origin in 2017 [5]
AncestryNumber
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 28
Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 27
Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 27

History

The parish of Hurdalen was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The new municipality of Feiring was separated from Hurdal on 1 January 1870.

Attractions

Notable residents

Ovre Romerike fra Mistberget.jpg
Øvre Romerike fra Mistberget

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References

  1. ↑ "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
  2. ↑ "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
  3. ↑ Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (2023-01-26). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.
  4. ↑ "Kommunevåpen" (in Norwegian). Hurdal kommune. Retrieved 2008-12-20.
  5. ↑ "Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents, by immigration category, country background and percentages of the population". ssb.no. Archived from the original on 2 July 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
  6. ↑ Russian flag in Norwegian monastery Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine . Tidsskrift for Russisktalende i Norge Landsmann (Bergen). (in Russian)
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