Stor-Elvdal

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Stor-Elvdal kommune
Municipality
Coat of arms of Stor-Elvdal kommune
Coat of arms
Official logo of Stor-Elvdal kommune
Innlandet within
Norway
Stor-Elvdal within Innlandet
Stor-Elvdal within Innlandet
Coordinates: 61°38′6″N 10°52′27″E / 61.63500°N 10.87417°E / 61.63500; 10.87417Coordinates: 61°38′6″N 10°52′27″E / 61.63500°N 10.87417°E / 61.63500; 10.87417
CountryNorway
CountyInnlandet
DistrictØsterdalen
Administrative centreKoppang
Government
 • Mayor (2005)Sigmund Vestad (LL)
Area
 • Total2,166 km2 (836 sq mi)
 • Land2,125 km2 (820 sq mi)
Area rank25 in Norway
Population
 (2004)
 • Total2,819
 • Rank283 in Norway
 • Density1/km2 (3/sq mi)
 • Change (10 years)
−12.7%
Demonym(s)Storelvdøl[1]
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 codeNO-3423
Official language formBokmål[2]
Websitewww.stor-elvdal.kommune.no
Data from Statistics Norway

Stor-Elvdal is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Østerdalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Koppang.

The parish of Store Elvedalen was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The neighboring municipality of Sollia was merged with Stor-Elvdal on 1 January 1965.

General information[]

Name[]

The Old Norse form of the name was Elfardalr. The first element is the genitive case of elfr which means "river" (here the Glomma river) and the last element is dalr which means "valley" or "dale".[3]

The first element Stor- (meaning "big") was later added to distinguish it from the municipality of Lille Elvedalen (now called Alvdal). (In the late Middle Ages the two districts was distinguished by ytre [meaning "outer"] and øvre [meaning "upper"].)

Coat-of-arms[]

The coat-of-arms is from modern times (1988). The arms show two silver-colored two-man saws on a green background.

Number of minorities (1st and 2nd generation) in Stor-Elvdal by country of origin in 2017[4]
Ancestry Number
 Netherlands 28
 Germany 28
 Eritrea 26
 Poland 23
 Syria 18

Tourism[]

Stor-Elvdal boasts the second[5] tallest moose statue in the world, a steel giant moose at the side of the Riksvei 3 highway.

Storelgen ('The giant moose') outside Stor-Elvdal

Geography[]

Stor-Elvdal is bordered on the north by the municipalities of Folldal and Alvdal, on the east by Rendalen, in the south by Åmot and Ringsaker, in the west by Øyer and Ringebu, and in the northwest by Sør-Fron.

Sister cities[]

The following cities are twinned with Stor-Elvdal:[6]

Notable people[]

  • Thore Embretsen Myrvang (1858–1939) an educator and politician, three times Mayor of Stor-Elvdal
  • Halldis Neegaard Østbye (1896 in Stor-Elvdal – 1983) In WWII known as "Norway's most fanatical Naziwoman"
  • Torkel Andreas Trønnes (1925-2011) an automobile advocate, lived in Koppang

References[]

  1. ^ "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
  2. ^ "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
  3. ^ Rygh, Oluf (1900). Norske gaardnavne: Hedmarkens amt (in Norwegian) (3 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. p. 353.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/mac-moose-tallest-moose-jaw-1.5314141
  6. ^ "Internasjonal kommune" (in Norwegian). Stor-Elvdal kommune. Retrieved 2008-12-30.

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