Øvrebø is a rural district and village in
Vennesla municipality in
Agder
Agder is a counties of Norway, county () and districts of Norway, traditional region in the southern part of Norway and is coextensive with the Southern Norway region. The county was established on 1 January 2020, when the old Vest-Agder and Au ...
county,
Norway
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. The village is located about north-northwest of the city of
Kristiansand
Kristiansand is a city and Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Agder county, Norway. The city is the fifth-largest and the municipality is the sixth-largest in Norway, with a population of around 116,000 as of January 2020, following th ...
. The village of
Skarpengland lies about east of Øvrebø.
The district of Øvrebø covers the central part of Vennesla municipality. Historically, the district of Øvrebø was a separate municipality known as
Øvrebø which existed from 1838 until 1865, and then again from 1896 until 1964.
In Skarpengland, there is a bank, a post office, several stores, a motor repair shop, and a school. Øvrebø is known for the "Øvrebø ski", found at
Mushom and considered for many years to be Norway's oldest preserved
ski. It can be seen in the
Holmenkollen Ski Museum
Holmenkollen Ski Museum () is located at the base of the Holmenkollen ski jump in Oslo, Norway.
The Ski Museum was founded in 1923 and is the world's oldest ski museum. The initiator of the museum was the architect Hjalmar Welhaven. His privat ...
in
Oslo
Oslo ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of 1,064,235 in 2022 ...
.
Name
The village is named after the old ''Øvrebø'' farm (
Old Norse
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: ''Øfribœr''), since the first
Øvrebø Church was built there. The first part of the name means "upper" and second part of the name is identical with the word ''bœr'' which means "
farm
A farm (also called an agricultural holding) is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes with the primary objective of producing food and other crops; it is the basic facility in food production. The name is used fo ...
" and it is
cognate
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Because language change can have radical effects on both the s ...
with the
Dutch language
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word ''"boer"'' which means "
farmer
A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock. A farmer ...
". The name therefore means "the upper farm".
See also
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History of skiing
Skiing, or traveling over snow on skis, has a history of at least eight millennia. The earliest archaeological examples of skis were found in Karelia (a region in western Russia on the border with Finland) and date to 6000 BCE. Although skiing's ...
References
External links
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Weather information for Øvrebø
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Vennesla
Villages in Agder