Rødtvet is a residential area in the district of

Grorud Grorud is a borough of the city of Oslo, Norway. The borough contains the Ammerud, Grorud, Kalbakken, Rødtvet, Nordtvet and Romsås areas. To the north of the borough is the forest of Lillomarka. The borough is the smallest in Oslo, with fewer ...

in Oslo, located just southwest of Grorud proper. The area was urbanized from the mid 1960s, and connected to the city centre with metro line 5 from 1966. Rødtvet has the forest

Lillomarka Lillomarka is an area located to the northeast of Oslo, Norway. It is a part of Oslomarka and serves as a popular recreational area. Lillomarka is bordered by Maridalen and Nordmarka in the west, Nittedal and Gjelleråsen in the east, the suburb ...

as a neighbor to the north, and the residential areas

Bredtvet Bredtvet is a neighborhood in the borough of Bjerke in Oslo, Norway. The area is located on a ridge between the neighborhoods of Veitvet to the west and Kalbakken to the east. Its origin was as a farm of the same name. It is not mentioned in wr ...

Kalbakken Kalbakken is a neighborhood in Grorud borough, Oslo, Norway. Kalbakken station on the Oslo Metro also serves the adjacent districts Nordtvet and Flaen between Trondheimsveien and Østre Aker vei, which are Groruddalens main thoroughfares into t ...

Flaen Kalbakken is a neighborhood in Grorud borough, Oslo, Norway. Kalbakken station on the Oslo Metro also serves the adjacent districts Nordtvet and Flaen between Trondheimsveien and Østre Aker vei, which are Groruddalens main thoroughfares into t ...

and

Nordtvet Kalbakken is a neighborhood in Grorud borough, Oslo, Norway. Kalbakken station on the Oslo Metro also serves the adjacent districts Nordtvet and Flaen between Trondheimsveien and Østre Aker vei, which are Groruddalens main thoroughfares into t ...

as its closest neighbors to the south. The area is named after Rødtvet farm (Rødtvetveien 14), which in the

Middle Ages In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire a ...

belonged to the monastery at

Hovedøya Hovedøya is one of several small islands off the coast of Oslo, Norway in the Oslofjord. The island is quite small, no more than 800 metres across in any direction, the total area is 0,4 square kilometre. It is well known for its lush and green ...

. The name itself has not been possible to fully interpret. "Tvet" comes from the Old Norse Þveit, which means "small piece of land", while "rød" stands uninterpreted. The area was farmland until the 1800s, when a number of smaller industries appeared. Traces of mining, and of stone industries based on the local "Grorud granite" (mostly open pit mining), are still possible to observe in the Rødtvet terrain. Rødtvet school was inaugurated in 1962, the nursing home in 1969. The church was consecrated in 1978. Situated in rented facilities behind the church is today the Norwegian Hindu Cultural Centre, which annually hosts a large-scale festival that attracts

Hindus Hindus (; ) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism.Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pages 35–37 Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for ...

from all over Northern Europe.

People from Rødtvedt

Flamur Kastrati Flamur Kastrati (born 14 November 1991) is a Kosovar retired professional footballer who recently played as a forward for Eliteserien club Odd. Kastrati is of Kosovar-Albanian descent and grew up in Norway. He has represented Norway at youth ...

, Kosovar footballer

References

Sources

* Oslo byleksikon 2000 * Rognstad, Kari 2001: «Gårdsliv på Rødtvet og Øvre Kalbakken», in: ''Årbok 2001'', Groruddalen historielag

External links

Rødtvet (strøk). On Rødtvet at "Lokalhistoriewiki", a Norwegian-language local history wiki.

On Rødtvet at the Norwegian-language web page "Oppdag Groruddalen".
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