Skiptvet is a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Meieribyen. Skiptvet was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt).
Skiptvet Municipality
Skiptvet kommune | |
|---|---|
 Skiptvet church | |
 Flag | |
 Østfold within Norway | |
 Skiptvet within Østfold | |
| Coordinates: 59°28′50″N 11°8′40″E / 59.48056°N 11.14444°E | |
| Country | Norway |
| County | Østfold |
| Administrative centre | Meieribyen |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2007) | Svein Olav Agnalt (Ap) |
| Area | |
• Total | 101 km2 (39 sq mi) |
| • Land | 93 km2 (36 sq mi) |
| • Rank | #384 in Norway |
| Population (2004) | |
• Total | 3,336 |
| • Rank | #251 in Norway |
| • Density | 36/km2 (90/sq mi) |
| • Change (10 years) |  +8.7% |
| Demonym | Skjetving[1] |
| Official language | |
| • Norwegian form | Bokmål |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| ISO 3166 code | NO-3116[3] |
| Website | Official website |
General information
editName
editThe municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Skiptvet farm (Old Norse: Skipþveit and/or Skygþveit) because the first church was built here. The meaning of the first element(s) is not known, and the last element is þveit 'clearing in the woods'. Prior to 1889, the name was written Skibtvet.
Coat-of-arms
editThe coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 27 November 1981. The arms show a silver dragon on a red background. The dragon is derived from a local legend, in which a dragon went to sleep in the local churchyard every morning. In the evening the dragon went back to the forest, where it had its lair. A tarn near the church is still called Dragehullet meaning "the dragon's pit".[4]
| Ancestry | Number |
|---|---|
 Poland |
124 |
 Syria |
32 |
 Lithuania |
27 |
 Latvia |
27 |
 Sweden |
23 |
Notable people
edit- Jens Christian Spidberg (1684 in Skiptvet - 1762) cartographer, theologian, priest and Bishop of the Diocese of Agder og Telemark
References
edit- ^ "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
- ^ "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
- ^ Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (2023-01-26). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.
- ^ Norske Kommunevåpen (1990). "Nye kommunevåbener i Norden". Retrieved 2008-12-15.
- ^ "Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents, by immigration category, country background and percentages of the population". ssb.no. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
External links
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Media related to Skiptvet at Wikimedia Commons
Østfold travel guide from Wikivoyage
The dictionary definition of Skiptvet at Wiktionary- Municipal fact sheet from Statistics Norway
