Nordre Land

Nordre Land kommune
Nordre Land kommune
	Municipality
	Dokka in Nordre Land
	Coat of arms Innlandet within ; Norway
	Nordre Land within Innlandet
	Coordinates: 60°55′55″N 10°1′2″E
Country	Norway
County	Innlandet
District	Land, Norway
Administrative centre	Dokka
Government
• Mayor (2015)	Ola Tore Dokken (SP)
Area
• Total	955 km2 (369 sq mi)
• Land	921 km2 (356 sq mi)
Area rank	112 in Norway
Population (2004)
• Total	6,916
• Rank	143 in Norway
• Density	8/km2 (20/sq mi)
• Change (10 years)	-0.7%
Demonym(s)	Nordrelending[1]
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	NO-3448
Official language form	Bokmål[2]
Website	www.nordre-land.kommune.no
	Data from Statistics Norway

Nordre Land is a municipality in Innlandet (formerly Oppland) [3] county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Land. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Dokka.

The old municipality of Land was divided into Nordre Land and Søndre Land in 1847. The area of Torpa was separated from Nordre Land on 1 January 1914 to become a separate municipality, but it was merged back into Nordre Land on 1 January 1962.

General information

Name

The Old Norse form of the name was just Land which means "land". The meaning of the name Nordre Land is "(the) northern (part of) Land". The parish and municipality of Land was divided in 1847.[4]

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted in 1987. The arms show two gold-colored hooks for log driving (or "brøtningshaker") on a blue background. They were designed by Dag Magne Staurheim. The municipality of Nordre Land has rich traditions within the field of log driving, to which the vast number of log dams within the area bear witness. Tools were required for the log driving, and the local blacksmiths made pike poles. Every blacksmith created his own shape or design for the poles, and one of the most famous pike poles in Nordre Land was the design made by the blacksmith Kristian Halden. In addition to pike poles he made knives. The poles and knives were named "Hæillhakar" and "Hæillakniver" by the locals. It is the "Halden Pole" which has been the model for the municipal arms of Nordre Land.[5]

**Number of minorities (1st and 2nd generation) in Nordre Land by country of origin in 2017**[6]
Ancestry	Number
Poland	116
Eritrea	53
Somalia	41
Lithuania	36
Afghanistan	29
Russia	25
Syria	22

Geography

Nordre Land is bordered on the north by the municipalities of Nord-Aurdal and Gausdal, on the northeast by Lillehammer, on the east by Gjøvik, on the south by Søndre Land, on the southwest by Sør-Aurdal, and on the west by Etnedal.

The river Etna flows from Etnedal and through western parts of the municipality down into the Randsfjorden. Lake Akksjøen is also in this area.

Attractions

The rock carvings at Møllerstufossen are more than 6,000 years old. There are 11 carvings of moose, and also two that are more difficult to interpret. Sometime in the Stone Age this must have been an important place.
The Lands Museum is located in Dokka. About thirty buildings are reassembled in the area. In the main building from the Thomle farm there are rococo paintings on the walls by Peder Aadnes dating from about 1750.

Rock carvings at Møllerstufossen
Main house Halmrast, Lands Museum
Østsinni church in Dokka

Notable residents

Anna Georgine Rogstad (1845–1938), was the first woman elected to the Storting.

References

"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.
Rygh, Oluf (1900). Norske gaardnavne: Kristians amt (Anden halvdel) (in Norwegian) (4 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. pp. 179 & 196.
"Kommunevåpen for Nordre Land". Nordre Land kommune. Archived from the original on 2011-07-24. Retrieved 2009-01-04.
"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

Municipal fact sheet from Statistics Norway
Oppland travel guide from Wikivoyage

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

[4] Rygh, Oluf (1900). Norske gaardnavne: Kristians amt (Anden halvdel) (in Norwegian) (4 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. pp. 179 & 196.

[5] "Kommunevåpen for Nordre Land". Nordre Land kommune. Archived from the original on 2011-07-24. Retrieved 2009-01-04.

[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.