Tretten is a village in
Øyer Municipality in
Innlandet county,
Norway. The village is located on the
Losna lake, which is part of the
Gudbrandsdalslågen river. Tretten is located in the
Gudbrandsdal valley, along the
Gudbrandsdalslågen river in the southern part of the municipality. It is located along the
European route E6
European route E6 ( no, Europavei 6, sv, Europaväg 6, or simply E6) is the main north-south thoroughfare through Norway as well as the west coast of Sweden. It is long and runs from the southern tip of Sweden at Trelleborg, into Norway and t ...
highway, about north of the town of
Lillehammer
Lillehammer () is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. Some of the more notable villages in the municip ...
. The municipal center of
Tingberg lies about to the southeast of Tretten.
The village has a population (2021) of 860 and a
population density of .
The village had its own sports team ''Tretten IL'' until 1990, when a merger created
Øyer-Tretten IF. The village is also the site of
Tretten Church which serves the northern part of the municipality.
Tretten was the location of the biggest train disaster in Norway's history. The
Tretten train disaster occurred on 22 February 1975 when two passenger trains collided head on. The tragedy resulted in 27 people being killed.
On 15 August 2022, the
Tretten Bridge over the Gudbrandsdalslågen river completely collapsed; it had beams of
glued laminated timber and others of
weathering steel. There were no fatalities. One vehicle driver was rescued by helicopter and the driver of a car escaped by himself.
Name
The village (and church parish) is named after the old ''Tretten'' farm ( non, Þrœttin or ) since the first church was built there. This farm is now named ''Prestgarden'' which means 'the vicarage'. The first element of the name is ''þróttr'' which means 'force' or 'power'. The last element is ''vin'' which means 'meadow'. The farm is lying close to the river Moksa, and the first element is probably referring to the stream and the waterfalls in the river here.
See also
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Bridge collapse in 2022
References
Øyer
Villages in Innlandet
Populated places on the Gudbrandsdalslågen
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