Greåker is a borough in the city of

Sarpsborg Sarpsborg ( or ), historically Borg, is a city and municipality in Viken county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Sarpsborg. Sarpsborg is part of the fifth largest urban area in Norway when paired with neigh ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

, located 7 km west of the city centre. Before 1992 Greåker was a part of Tune municipality. It is situated at the river

Glomma The Glomma, or Glåma, is Norway's longest and most voluminous river. With a total length of , it has a drainage basin that covers fully 13% of Norway's surface area, all in the southern part of the country. Geography At its fullest length, the ...

between

and

Fredrikstad Fredrikstad (; previously ''Frederiksstad''; literally "Fredrik's Town") is a city and municipality in Viken county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Fredrikstad. The city of Fredrikstad was founded in 15 ...

. The borough of Greåker is the home of the Premier League Floorball team "Greåker Bulldogs". The team's home arena is the Tindlundhallen arena. Greåker has been a site for diverse industry for decades, most notably in the area of paper production. The most notable remaining industry today is

Nordic Paper Nordic Paper AS is a Norwegian industrial company, operating in Norway and Sweden. It was founded in 2001 when ''Peterson Scanproof'', a branch of M. Peterson & Søn which consisted of production units in Greåker (formerly owned by Greaker Indust ...

's kraft paper mill by the Glomma river, which is the continuation of over a hundred years of various

wood processing Wood processing is an engineering discipline in the wood industry comprising the production of forest products, such as pulp and paper, construction materials, and tall oil. Paper engineering is a subfield of wood processing. The major wood pro ...

works (e.g. Greaker Cellulose, Greaker Industrier). There is a fortress located in Greåker, built during the first decade of the 20th century. It was one of several fortresses built along the Norwegian/Swedish border during this period, in preparation for a potential war between Norway and Sweden. Norway was struggling to leave the union with Sweden, which had lasted since 1814. This war never came to happen, and the fortress was partially disabled. During World War II, the Germans attacked the fortress, coming across the river Visterflo, which unites with its source, Glomma, again at Greåker. Today the fortress is in poor condition, and used as a look-out point over Fredrikstad and the southern parts of Sarpsborg.

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Villages in Østfold Sarpsborg Populated places on the Glomma River Boroughs of Norway {{østfold-geo-stub