Degernes is a village and parish in

Rakkestad Rakkestad is a municipality in Viken county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Rakkestad. It is divided into the parishes of Rakkestad, Degernes, and Os. The municipality is the county's second largest b ...

municipality in

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county,

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History

was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). It was divided into the parishes of Rakkestad, Degernes, and Os. Degernes was separated from Rakkestad as a municipality of its own on 1 January 1917, but it was merged back into Rakkestad on 1 January 1964. Degernesis located on Highway 22 towards

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about eight miles southeast of the community center of Rakkestad. The village of Degernes has today a population of 277 ( SSB 2005). The private sector consists largely of agriculture, principally animal husbandry. During the 1950s there was some mining in the municipality. Degernes Church (''Degernes Kirke'') is from 1863. It was built of brick and has 350 seats. It was designed by Architect

Christian Heinrich Grosch Christian Heinrich Grosch (21 January 1801 – 4 May 1865) was a Norwegian architect. He was a dominant figure in Norwegian architecture in the first half of the 1800s. Biography Christian Heinrich Grosch was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. H ...

. The church was restored in 1962. Access to the site is via Rv22 and Fv656. Degernes Hall (''Degerneshallen'') is the only sports facility in the municipality. Degernes Hall was finished during 1984. The hall used mostly for team handball and gymnastics. The oldest settlement of the Fosna-Hensbacka culture in Eastern Norway is found at Høgnipen, located in the southern part of Degernes. The two sites at Høgnipen are called Rørmyr and Mellommyr and are estimated to date back 10,000 years.''Rakkestad Municipality'' (Indre Østfold)
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Etymology

The municipality (originally the parish) was named after the old farm of Degernes ( Norse ''Digranes''), since the first church was built there. The first element is ''digr'' 'big', the last element is ''nes'' n 'headland'.

Notable residents

Asbjørn Solberg Asbjørn Solberg (27 December 1893 – 23 June 1977) was a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party. He was born in Oslo. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Østfold in 1945, and was re-elected on three occasions ...

(1893–1977), member of the

Norwegian Parliament The Storting ( no, Stortinget ) (lit. the Great Thing) is the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway. It is located in Oslo. The unicameral parliament has 169 members and is elected every four years base ...

and former mayor of Degernes *

Erik Varden Erik Varden, O.C.S.O. (born 13 May 1974) is a Norwegian Catholic spiritual writer, Trappist monk, and bishop-prelate of the Territorial Prelature of Trondheim since 1 October 2019. Early life and education Varden was born in a non-practising ...

, catholic bishop of

Trondheim Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, and ...

References

External links

Degernes Church
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