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Nesodden Municipality
Nesodden kommune
Municipality
Flag of Nesodden Municipality
Flag
Coat of arms of Nesodden Municipality
Coat of arms
Akershus within Norway
Akershus within Norway
Nesodden within Akershus
Nesodden within Akershus
Coordinates: 59°48′31″N 10°39′20″E / 59.80861°N 10.65556°E / 59.80861; 10.65556
CountryNorway
CountyAkershus
DistrictFollo
Administrative centreNesoddtangen
Government
 • Mayor (2011)Nina Sandberg (AP)
Area
 • Total61 km2 (24 sq mi)
 • Land61 km2 (24 sq mi)
 • Rank#416 in Norway
Population
 (2006)
 • Total16,541
 • Rank#61 in Norway
 • Density265/km2 (690/sq mi)
 • Change (10 years)
Increase +16.1%
DemonymNesodding[1]
Official language
[2]
 • Norwegian formBokmål
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 codeNO-0216[3]
WebsiteOfficial website
Data from Statistics Norway

Nesodden is a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Follo. The administrative centre of the municipality is Nesoddtangen. The parish of Næsodden was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The new municipality of Oppegård was separated from Nesodden on 1 July 1915.

General information

Name

The name (Old Norse: Nesoddi) is an old district name. The first element is nes which means "headland" and the last element is (the definite form of) odde which means "point".[4]

The very tip of the peninsula is called Nesoddtangen, where the last element is (the definite form of) tange which means "spit". In fact, all three elements in this name have (nearly) the same meaning.

Nesodden Church

Nesodden Church (Nesodden kirke) is located in Nesodden parish in Follo rural deanery. The medieval stone church is situated southeast of the village of Nesodden. The building material is stone and brick. It was built in 1175. It has a rectangular nave and lower, narrower choir. The church is of long plan and has 130 seats. In the church, there is a Renaissance pulpit, carved altarpiece from 1715 and baptismal font from the Middle Ages. The chancel was extended in 1714.[5]

The church was renovated several times between the 17th and the 20th centuries. The church was most recently restored between 1956-1960. The church celebrated its 800th anniversary during 1975. [6]

Nesodden Church

















Sunnaas Hospital

Sunnaas Hospital, founded in 1954 as a nursing home, was authorized as a hospital in 1960, primarily to treat polio patients from Oslo in cooperation with Oslo City Hospital. The hospital is today a university hospital.

Minorities

Number of minorities (1st and 2nd generation) in Nesodden by country of origin in 2017[7]
Ancestry Number
 Sweden 304
 Poland 300
 Denmark 173
 Germany 171
 United Kingdom 121
 Lithuania 87
 Somalia 84
 Thailand 83
 Romania 73
 USA 70
Nesodden kirke steeple

Geography

Nesodden is located on the tip of the peninsula between main Oslofjord and its arm Bunnefjorden. It includes the villages Hellvik, Fjellstrand, Bjørnemyr, Nesoddtangen, and Fagerstrand, which is also the name of a reality show that was filmed on Fagerstrand and aired on TV 2 during the first half of 2005. Nesoddtangen has passenger ferry connections to Lysaker in Bærum (8 min) and Aker Brygge in Oslo (23 min).

Coat of arms

The coat of arms is designed by the architect Christian Doxrud (1917-2002) and authorized 12 December 1986. The coat of arms shows a silver triangle on a blue background as a canting of the geographical position of the municipality, which is situated on a peninsula in the Oslofjord.[8]

Notable residents

Several Norwegian celebrities live in Nesodden.

References

  1. ^ "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
  2. ^ "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
  3. ^ Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (2023-01-26). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.
  4. ^ Rygh, Oluf (1905). Norske gaardnavne: Akershus amt (in Norwegian) (2 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. p. 86.
  5. ^ "Nesodden kirke". Den Norske Kirke. Retrieved October 1, 2016.
  6. ^ Sigrid Marie Christie, Håkon Christie. "Nesodden kirke". Norges Kirker. Retrieved October 1, 2016.
  7. ^ "Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents, by immigration category, country background and percentages of the population". ssb.no. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  8. ^ Norske Kommunevåpen (1990). "Nye kommunevåbener i Norden". Retrieved 2008-12-20.

External links

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