Hobøl was a

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. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of

Elvestad Elvestad is a well-known traffic junction area and a village in the Hobøl municipality in the Østfold county, Norway. It is where the "Riksvei" ( country road route) 120 and Europe Way (European route) E18 cross each other. Riksvei 120 goes be ...

. Hobøl is situated about southeast of

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. The

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of ''Haabøl'' was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see

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). The largest village in Hobøl was

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, whose

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is served by

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. Other villages in the municipality were

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, and the middle part of the municipality which is called Hobøl. Hobøl was suggested as the replacement site for a new

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to replace

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, and in 1972 the Norwegian parliament voted to build it there. The 1973 oil crisis postponed that plan, and the new airport was finally built at

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, north of Oslo.

General information

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old ''Hobøl'' farm (

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: ''Hóbœli''), since the first church was built here. The first element is ''hór'' or ''hár'' meaning "high". The last element is ''bœli'' which means "

farm A farm (also called an agricultural holding) is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes with the primary objective of producing food and other crops; it is the basic facility in food production. The name is used fo ...

". Thus the name means "the farm lying on a high ground". Prior to 1889 the name was written "Haabøl".

Coat-of-arms

The

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is from modern times. It was granted on 30 August 1985; it shows the municipality as seen from above. The municipality is mainly formed by a large

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, cut by the

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ing

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Notable people

Sister cities

The following cities are twinned with Hobøl: * -

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, Tartu County,

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References

External links

* *
Municipal fact sheet
from

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hobol Municipalities of Østfold Villages in Østfold