The gårdsnummer or cadastral unit number is the number of a farm unit in the Norwegian land register and it serves as the

assessor's parcel number An assessor's parcel number, or APN, is a number assigned to parcels of real property by the tax assessor of a particular jurisdiction for purposes of identification and record-keeping. The assigned number is unique within the particular jurisdic ...

. The modern abbreviation is Gnr, although the

Norske Gaardnavne ''Norske Gaardnavne'' (English: Norwegian Farm Names) is a 19-volume set of books based on a manuscript prepared from 1897 to 1924 by Oluf Rygh, a noted professor of archaeology, philology, and history at the University of Oslo. The book contains a ...

lists the abbreviation as GN. Each municipality will typically start with Gnr 1 and number each gård consecutively as needed. A farm is often divided into bruksnummers, which begin again for each farm. This means that over time a larger farm has been divided into smaller units.

Land register hierarchy

* - Fylkesnummer ** - Kommunenummer ***Gnr. – Gårdsnummer ****Bnr. – Bruksnummer *****Fnr. – Festenummer *****Snr. – Seksjonsnummer

External links

* Norwegian Farm Names
Oluf Rygh: Norwegian Farm NamesGårdsmatrikkelen for 1886Matrikkelutkastet av 1950
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