Furnes is a village in

Ringsaker Municipality is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Hedemarken. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Brumunddal. Other settlements in Ringsaker include the town of Moelv and the ...

Innlandet Innlandet is a county in Norway. It was created on 1 January 2020 with the merger of the old counties of Oppland and Hedmark (the municipalities of Jevnaker and Lunner were transferred to the neighboring county of Viken on the same date). The ...

county,

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. The village is located just west of the European route E6 highway, about from the town of

Hamar Hamar is a town in Hamar Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. Hamar is the administrative centre of Hamar Municipality. It is located in the traditional region of Hedmarken. The town is located on the shores of Mjøsa, Norway's largest lake ...

to the southeast and the same distance from Brumunddal to the norhtwest. Furnes Church is located in the village. It was built in 1707 using some of the stone from the

Cathedral Ruins in Hamar ''For the current cathedral in Hamar, see Hamar cathedral''. Hamar Cathedral (''Domkirkeruinene på Hamar'') are the ruins of the medieval era Hamar Cathedral in Hamar, Norway Hamar Cathedral was the see of the Ancient Diocese of Hamar. The d ...

. This village was the administrative centre of the old Furnes Municipality that existed from 1891 until 1964.

Name

The village is named Furnes ( non, Furnes). The meaning of the first element is unknown. It is possible that the first part came from the old name of a local river such as ''Fura'' or it could be derived from the word ''furu'' which means "pine". The last element is ''nes'' which means " headland".

Notable residents

Jon Balke Jon Georg Balke (born 7 June 1955) is a Norwegian jazz pianist who leads the Magnetic North Orchestra. He is the younger brother of saxophonist Erik Balke. Career Balke started playing classical piano but switched to blues at 12, though he pe ...

(born 1955) jazz pianist and composer *

Ole Ellefsæter Ole Martin Ellefsæter (15 February 1939 – 18 October 2022) was a Norwegian athlete. He mostly competed in cross-country skiing, and won two gold medals at the 1968 Winter Olympics. At the 1966 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships he won one ...

(born 1939) retired Olympic cross-country skier * Alf Frydenberg (1896–1989), Norwegian civil servant * Erik Kristiansen (born 1961) ice hockey player *

Olav Larssen Olav Larssen (10 July 1894 – 5 July 1981) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour and Communist parties. Personal life Olav Larssen was born in Furnes as a son of baker Kristian Larssen and Lovise Wahlum (1873–1923). ...

(1894–1981), newspaper editor * Odd Narud (1919–2000), businessperson * Ove Røsbak (born 1959) poet, novelist, children's writer and biographer * Ole Rømer Aagaard Sandberg (1900–1985), politician for the Norwegian Centre Party

References

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