Kirkenær

Kirkenær is the administrative centre of Grue municipality, Innlandet county, Norway. Its population (2005) is 1,252.

The farm that gave its name to the village

History

The place is named after the Kirkenær farm and is located in the middle of Solør.

In 1822, the Grue church fire occurred in the area of Kirkenær. It was major fire catastrophe where at least 113 people perished. When the railway arrived in 1893, a new settlement grew up around the railway station.



gollark: They will probably suffer as people who wanted children won't get them and (unless a workaround is found, and honestly it probably will be) society slowly collapses as people die off.
gollark: Which is also bad. They probably *will* suffer.
gollark: If you kill everyone, you are similarly evil to "trump, or hitler, or your parents", in causing excessive suffering.
gollark: 500 hitlers, approximately. That order of magnitude.
gollark: It would be harder?
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