Hurdal

Hurdal kommune
Hurdal kommune
	Municipality
	Coat of arms Viken within ; Norway
	Hurdal within Viken
	Coordinates: 60°24′57″N 11°0′31″E
Country	Norway
County	Viken
District	Romerike
Administrative centre	Hurdal
Government
• Mayor (2013)	Runar Bålsrud (V)
Area
• Total	285 km2 (110 sq mi)
• Land	261 km2 (101 sq mi)
Area rank	284 in Norway
Population (2004)
• Total	2,679
• Rank	292 in Norway
• Density	10/km2 (30/sq mi)
• Change (10 years)	5.4%
Demonym(s)	Hurdaling or; Hurdøling[1]
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	NO-3037
Official language form	Bokmål[2]
Website	www.hurdal.kommune.no
	Data from Statistics Norway

Hurdal is a municipality in Akershus in Viken county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Romerike. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Hurdal.

Hurdal is located about 70 kilometres (40 mi) north of Oslo, along the lake Hurdalsjøen. Fjellsjøkampen is the highest hill in Akershus. About 5 km north of the administrative centre, Hurdal, is the Hurdal Ski Centre.

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).[3]

**Number of minorities (1st and 2nd generation) in Hurdal by country of origin in 2017**[4]
Ancestry	Number
Germany	28
Sweden	27
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

Holy Trifon Skete, an Eastern Orthodox monastery of Orthodox church in Norway (Saint Nicolas commune). The monastery was established in 1985.[5]

Notable residents

Tore Ruud Hofstad (born 1979) - cross country skier
Henning Stensrud (born 1977) - Ski jumper
Robert Sørlie (born 1958) - dog sled racer and winner of Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 2003 and 2005

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References

"Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
"Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
"Kommunevåpen" (in Norwegian). Hurdal kommune. Retrieved 2008-12-20.
"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.
Russian flag in Norwegian monastery Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine. Tidsskrift for Russisktalende i Norge Landsmann (Bergen). (in Russian)

External links

Media related to Hurdal at Wikimedia Commons
The dictionary definition of Hurdal at Wiktionary
Akershus travel guide from Wikivoyage
Municipal fact sheet from Statistics Norway

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[1] "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.

[2] "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.

[3] "Kommunevåpen" (in Norwegian). Hurdal kommune. Retrieved 2008-12-20.

[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] Russian flag in Norwegian monastery Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine. Tidsskrift for Russisktalende i Norge Landsmann (Bergen). (in Russian)