Lillestrøm is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

Viken Viken may refer to: *Viken, Scandinavia, a historical region *Viken (county), a Norwegian county established in 2020 *Viken, Sweden, a bimunicipal locality in Skåne County, Sweden *Viken (lake), a lake in Sweden, part of the part of the Göta cana ...

county. It is located in the traditional district of

Romerike Romerike is a traditional district located north-east of Oslo, in what is today south-eastern Norway. It consists of the Viken municipalities Lillestrøm, Lørenskog, Nittedal, Rælingen and Aurskog-Høland in the southern end (Nedre Romerike) ...

. With a population of 85,757 inhabitants, it is the fourth most populated municipality in Viken. It was founded on 1 January 2020 as a merger between former municipalities

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Skedsmo Skedsmo was a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Romerike. The administrative centre of the municipality was the town of Lillestrøm. About one third of the municipal population lived in Lillestrøm. ...

and

Sørum Sørum was a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Romerike. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Sørumsand. Sørum was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see ...

. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillestrøm. The town of Lillestrøm is a part of the

Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population ...

metropolitan area. With 83,821 inhabitants, Lillestrøm is the 4th largest municipality in

. Sondre Kvambe, (Formely known as Daventa) played a crucial part in the history of

Lillestrøm Lillestrøm is a municipality in Viken county. It is located in the traditional district of Romerike. With a population of 85,757 inhabitants, it is the fourth most populated municipality in Viken. It was founded on 1 January 2020 as a merger be ...

History

The name means "the little art ofStrøm", Strøm being the name of an old and large farm (

Old Norse Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian, is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and their overseas settlemen ...

: ''straumr'', which also meant "stream" as well). Lillestrøm's history dates back to the times river powered sawmills came into use for the production of building materials. Later Lillestrøm got its own steam sawmill which laid the base for the development of the area which became the town. The area was, by and large, a moss covered swamp-like area, at the time considered almost uninhabitable. However, the almost non-existent property values were judged to be a fair exchange and so the workers started living and settling in the area around the sawmill, and Lillestrøm was born. On 1 January 1908 Lillestrøm became a

of its own, having been split from

. At that time Lillestrøm municipality had a population of 4,351. On 1 January 1962 the two municipalities were reunited under the name Skedsmo. Before the merger Lillestrøm municipality had a population of 10,840. In 1997, Skedsmo municipal council declared Lillestrøm to be a town (''by'') in its own right (a purely honorary status which has no effect upon the organization of local government, but is a matter of local pride nonetheless). The event is commemorated in an annual 4-day street fair, which includes music by high-profile Norwegian artists on several outdoor stages, food stalls, retail business exhibitions, and thrill rides. The whole thing (with free admission to all) is held in Lillestrøm's main thoroughfare and its connecting streets, which are closed to all vehicles for the duration. In 2002, Norway Trade Fairs moved from Skøyen to Lillestrøm.

Transport

Road

Norwegian national road Norwegian national roads (Norwegian: Riksvei/Riksveg abbr. Rv; literally: road of the rike/realm), are roads thus categorized by the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (Statens vegvesen) which also maintains them. In 2007 there were of this cl ...

159 is a four-lane motorway connecting central Lillestrøm directly to Oslo. The European route E6 bypasses Lillestrøm a few kilometres to the west on its way from Oslo to the north of the country. National road 22, running from northwest to southeast, passes through the northern outskirts of the conurbation.

Rail

Lillestrøm is connected to Oslo by two separate railway lines. The

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(opened 1854) runs to Oslo via the

Grorud valley The Grorud Valley ( no, Groruddalen) is a valley and urban area or suburb in the northeastern part of Oslo, the capital of Norway. Four of Oslo's boroughs lie within the Grorud Valley; Bjerke to the west, Alna to the south, Grorud to the north ...

and is used mostly by commuter trains calling at all stations, as well as freight trains. Non-stop commuter trains, airport express trains, and long-distance expresses use the high-speed

Gardermoen Line The Gardermoen Line ( no, Gardermobanen) is a high-speed railway line between Oslo and Eidsvoll, Norway, running past Lillestrøm and Oslo Airport, Gardermoen. The line is long and replaced the older Hoved Line as the main line north-east of O ...

(opened 1999), which runs mostly in tunnel to Oslo. The Trunk Line north of Lillestrøm carries frequent local passenger trains as far as

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as well as freight trains to

Eidsvoll Eidsvoll (; sometimes written as ''Eidsvold'') is a municipality in Akershus in Viken county, Norway. It is part of the Romerike traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Sundet. General information ...

, Lillehammer, and

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. The Gardermoen Line (the stretch of which north of Lillestrøm opened in 1998) is used by airport express trains, regional trains to

and Lillehammer, and long-distance passenger services to

. Running north-east from Lillestrøm, the

Kongsvinger Line The Kongsvinger Line ( no, Kongsvingerbanen) is a railway line between the towns of Lillestrøm and Kongsvinger in Norway and onwards to Charlottenberg in Sweden. The railway was opened on 3 October 1862 and is Norway's second standard gauge lin ...

(opened 1862) conveys hourly local trains to

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as well as a number of longer-distance trains, passenger and freight, to and from Sweden.

Air

Kjeller Kjeller is a village located near Lillestrøm in the municipality of Lillestrøm, Norway. It is located 25 kilometers north-east of Oslo. Name The Norse form of the name was probably ''Tjaldir''. This is then the plural of ''tjald'' n ' tent' ...

, a village north of the town of Lillestrøm, is the site of Kjeller Airfield, founded in 1912, which has the closest operational

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to Oslo city centre. However, this is overshadowed by the much larger international airport at

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(opened 1998), which is further north but just 12 minutes away from Lillestrøm railway station by high-speed rail.

Education

Lillestrøm is home to the following primary, lower secondary, and upper secondary schools:

Primary

Lower secondary

*Bingsfoss ungdomsskole *Kjellervolla skole *Østersund ungdomsskole

High school

*Lillestrøm videregående skole *Skedsmo videregående skole

Government

Lillestrøm municipality is controlled by the local Labor party, with Jørgen Vik as the mayor, he has been mayor since the 2020 merger. The head office of Accident Investigation Board Norway is located in Lillestrøm, and is led by Grete Myhre. The University College of Norwegian Correctional Service (Kriminalomsorgens høgskole og utdanningssenter, KRUS) is in Lillestrøm.

Facilities

Facilities in Lillestrøm include hotels, Norway trade fairs, a brand new cinema, a mall, Lillestrøm torv, restaurants, a high speed commuter train that reaches both Oslo and Gardermoen airport (the

), a community cultural house (kulturhus), and a community outdoor swimming pool complex. At

, just outside the city, there is a military airport (1912) and several research institutes.

Sport

The local football team,

Lillestrøm SK Lillestrøm Sportsklubb is a Norwegian professional football club from the city of Lillestrøm, just outside of the capital Oslo. Lillestrøm SK is a Norwegian football club based in Lillestrøm, playing in Eliteserien. The club was founded in ...

, plays in the

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. Their home ground is

Åråsen Stadion The Åråsen Stadion, officially written Åråsen stadion, is an all-seater football stadium located in Lillestrøm, a city east of Oslo in Skedsmo, Norway. With a capacity of 11,500 spectators, the venue is the home of the Eliteserien side Lil ...

. The nearby

Lillestrøm stadion Lillestrøm idrettspark, colloquially known as Lillestrøm stadion, is a sports facility located at Lillestrøm in Skedsmo, Norway. The main venue is Romerike friidrettsstadion, an athletics stadium with eight all-weather running tracks. It has ...

is used for training, and was an

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venue at the 1952 Winter Olympics. There are also two indoor arenas, one multi-purpose ( Skedsmohallen) and one for football ( LSK-Hallen), and in 2007 a track and field stadium Romerike Friidrettsstadion was built as a cooperation between the municipalities Skedsmo,

Rælingen Rælingen is a village and municipality in Akershus in Viken county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Romerike. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Fjerdingby. Rælingen was separated from the municip ...

and

Lørenskog is a municipality in Akershus in Viken county, Norway. A suburb of Oslo, it is part of the Oslo urban area and the traditional region of Romerike. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Lørenskog. Lørenskog was separ ...

. The local track and field club is named Minerva. Athletes such as Hanne Haugland and Håkon Särnblom have represented the club. Rugby is represented by newly formed Rugby League club Lillestrøm Lions RLK.

Notable people

Claus Wiese Claus Wiese (March 1, 1924 – September 7, 1987) was a Norwegian actor and American-based radio broadcaster. Wiese was born in Lillestrøm. He graduated from the Oslo Cathedral School in 1944 and worked as an actor with the Oslo New Theater fr ...

(1924–1987) a Norwegian actor and American-based radio broadcaster * Ole Edvard Borgen (1925–2009) a Norwegian theologian and Methodist bishop *

Carl Fredrik Lowzow Carl Fredrik Lowzow (5 August 1927 in Oslo – October 20, 2009 ) was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Akershus in 1977, and was re-elected on two occasions. On the local lev ...

(1927–2009) local and national politician * Peder Borgen (born 1928) a Norwegian Methodist minister, researches the

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* Gerd Grønvold Saue (born 1930) journalist, novelist, hymnwriter and peace activist * Jan Mangerud (born 1937) geologist, grew up in Lillestrøm *

Arild Andersen Arild Andersen (born 27 October 1945) is a Norwegian jazz musician bassist, known as the most famous Norwegian bass player in the international jazz scene. Career Andersen was born at Strømmen, Norway. He started his musical career as jazz g ...

(born 1945) a Norwegian jazz bass player, born in Strømmen * Sasha Gabor (1945–2008) a Hungarian-Norwegian actor and director IMDb Database
retrieved 19 February 2021 *

Ole Kristian Ruud Ole Kristian Ruud (born 2 October 1958) is a Norwegian conductor. Ruud was born in Lillestrøm. He studied clarinet with Richard Kjelstrup at the Norwegian Academy of Music. He studied conducting at the Sibelius Academy and made his debut in Os ...

(born 1958) a conductor at the

Norwegian Academy of Music The Norwegian Academy of Music (Norwegian: ''Norges musikkhøgskole'', NMH) is a university-level music conservatory located in Oslo, Norway, in the neighbourhood of Majorstuen, Frogner. It is the largest music academy in Norway and offers the ...

Anne Holt Anne Holt (born 16 November 1958) is a Norwegian author, lawyer and former Minister of Justice. Early life She was born in Larvik, grew up in Lillestrøm and Tromsø, and moved to Oslo in 1978. Holt graduated with a law degree from the Universit ...

(born 1958) author, lawyer and politician; grew up in Lillestrøm * Bjarne Andre Myklebust (born 1972), media professional for

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Chris Holsten Christoffer "Chris" (Neymar) Holsten (born May 4, 1993) is a Norwegian singer, songwriter and producer.
...

(born 1993) a Norwegian singer and songwriter

Sport

Tom Lund Tom Lund (born 10 September 1950) is a former Norwegian football coach and striker, he is considered by some as Norway's greatest football player of all time. Lund spent his entire career at Norwegian club Lillestrøm, despite receiving numer ...

(born 1950), footballer, 247 club caps with

and 47 for

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 the ...

* Kay Stenshjemmet (born 1953), speed skater, two silver medals at the

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Erik Solér Erik Francisco Solér (born 6 August 1960) is a Norwegian former professional footballer, a former football agent, and former General Manager and Sporting Director of New York Red Bulls as well as a football commentator for Champions League an ...

(born 1960) a former footballer with 39 caps with Norway national football team * Bjørn Nyland (born 1962) a Norwegian speed skater *

Bente Nordby Bente Dalum Nordby (born 23 July 1974) is a former Norwegian football goalkeeper, who last played for Olympique Lyonnais in Lyon, France. She played with the Norway women's national football team from 1991 to 2007. Career Nordby is the se ...

(born 1974) a former football goalkeeper, with 172 caps with Norway women * Pål Steffen Andresen (born 1982) footballer with over 320 club caps * Fredrik Gulbrandsen (born 1992) footballer with over 220 club caps * Thomas Skoglund (born 1993), handball player, 41 matches with the Norwegian national team

References

External links

Municipality website

Norwegian Defense Research EstablishmentAirport train, "Flytoget"Lillestrøm torv

Lillstrøm Sportsclub, LSK

Lillestrøm cultural centre

VisitLillestrom.no
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