Follebu is a village in Gausdal Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located along the river Gausa, about to the southeast of the village of Segalstad bru. The town of Lillehammer lies about to the southeast of Follebu.

Follebu Church Follebu Church ( no, Follebu kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Gausdal Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the village of Follebu. It is the church for the Follebu parish which is part of the Sør-Gudbrand ...

(''Follebu kirke'') is located just to the northwest of the village. It was built in a Gothic style of stone and brick between the years 1260 and 1300. The village has a population (2021) of 1,160 and a population density of .

Name

The Old Norse form of the name was ''Foldabu''. The first element is probably the

genitive In grammar, the genitive case (abbreviated ) is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun—thus indicating an attributive relationship of one noun to the other noun. A genitive can al ...

pluralis of ''fold'' which means "meadow", "plain", or "open and flat land". The last element of the name is ''bú'' which means "rural district". The area is quite flat and open, especially when it is compared to the surrounding areas.

References

Gausdal Villages in Innlandet {{Innlandet-geo-stub