Åmot

Åmot kommune
Åmot kommune
	Municipality
	Nordre Osen old Church
	Coat of arms Innlandet within ; Norway
	Åmot within Innlandet
	Coordinates: 61°8′47″N 11°24′57″E
Country	Norway
County	Innlandet
District	Østerdalen
Administrative centre	Rena
Government
• Mayor (2019)	Ole Erik Hørstad[1] (H)
Area
• Total	1,340 km2 (520 sq mi)
• Land	1,293 km2 (499 sq mi)
Area rank	67 in Norway
Population (2004)
• Total	4,425
• Rank	217 in Norway
• Density	3/km2 (8/sq mi)
• Change (10 years)	1.7%
Demonym(s)	Åmoting[2]
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	NO-3422
Official language form	Bokmål[3]
Website	www.amot.kommune.no
	Data from Statistics Norway

Åmot is a municipality in Innlandet (formerly Hedmark) [4] county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Østerdalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Rena. The parish of Aamot was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt).

General information

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Åmot farm (Old Norse: Ámót), since the first church was built here. The first element is á which means "river" and the last element is mót meaning "meeting". (The rivers Glomma and Rena run together here.) Prior to 1921, the name was written "Aamot".

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted in 1987. The arms show three gold or yellow timber axes on a green background. They symbolize the importance and history of the logging industry in the area.[5]

**Number of minorities (1st and 2nd generation) in Åmot by country of origin in 2017**[6]
Ancestry	Number
Lithuania	60
Poland	29
Germany	28
Eritrea	24
Sweden	23

Geography

Åmot is located in the central part of Hedmark county. It is bordered to the north by Rendalen, to the east by Trysil, to the south by Elverum, to the southwest by Hamar and Ringsaker, and in the west by Stor-Elvdal.

The Renaelva river flows into the Glomma river in Åmot.

Education

Åmot has four schools: Åmot Ungdomsskole (Åmot Lower secondary school), Rena Barneskole, Deset Oppvekstsenter, and Osen Oppvekstsenter.

References

"(+) Ole Erik ble eneste Høyre-ordfører i Innlandet. Vil ikke si om han har tillit til rådmannen". www.ostlendingen.no (in Norwegian). 2019-10-03. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
"Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
"Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
moderniseringsdepartementet, Kommunal- og (7 July 2017). "Regionreform". Regjeringen.no. Archived from the original on 23 March 2018. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
"Kommunevåpen" (in Norwegian). Åmot 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.

External links

Media related to Åmot at Wikimedia Commons
The dictionary definition of Åmot at Wiktionary
Municipal fact sheet from Statistics Norway

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[1] "(+) Ole Erik ble eneste Høyre-ordfører i Innlandet. Vil ikke si om han har tillit til rådmannen". www.ostlendingen.no (in Norwegian). 2019-10-03. Retrieved 2019-10-06.

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

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

[4] rniseringsdepartementet, Kommunal- og (7 July 2017). "Regionreform". Regjeringen.no. Archived from the original on 23 March 2018. Retrieved 28 April 2018.

[5] "Kommunevåpen" (in Norwegian). Åmot kommune. Retrieved 2008-12-20.

[6] "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.