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Ramnes is a village in Tønsberg municipality, and former municipality in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway. The village of Ramnes was the administrative centre of the municipality.


Summary

The parish of ''Ramnæs'' was established as a municipality January 1, 1838 (see
formannskapsdistrikt () is the name for Norwegian local self-government districts that were legally enacted on 1 January 1838. This system of municipalities was created in a bill approved by the Parliament of Norway and signed into law by King Carl Johan on 14 January ...
). According to the 1835 census the municipality had a population of 2,716. On 16 July 1873 an uninhabited part of Våle municipality was moved to Ramnes following a royal resolution. On January 1, 2002, Ramnes was merged with Våle to form the new municipality of Re, which on January 1, 2020, merged into Tønsberg. In 1996 Ramnes had a population of 3,579. The municipality and originally the parish was named after the old farm Ramnes ( Old Norse ''Rafnnes''), since the first church was built there. The first element is ''rafn'' m '
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', the last element is ''nes'' n 'headland'. (Here the headland is made by the meeting of two rivers.)


Ramnes Church

Church (''Ramnes kirke'') is a medieval era stone church for the parish of Ramnes in Nord-Jarlsberg rural deanery. The building material is stone and brick and it was built in 1150. The baptismal font from the 1100s. The towers are from the early 1600s. The altarpiece and pulpit and from the second half of the 1600s. The church is of long plan and has 250 number of seats.


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Ramnes Church
1838 establishments in Norway Populated places established in 1838 Populated places disestablished in 2002 Former municipalities of Norway Villages in Vestfold og Telemark Tønsberg {{Vestfold-geo-stub