Tretten is a village in Øyer Municipality in

Innlandet Innlandet is a county in Norway. It was created on 1 January 2020 with the merger of the old counties of Oppland and Hedmark (the municipalities of Jevnaker and Lunner were transferred to the neighboring county of Viken on the same date). The ...

county,

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. 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 Tingberg or Øyer is the administrative centre of Øyer Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located in the Gudbrandsdal valley, along the Gudbrandsdalslågen river in the southern part of the municipality. It is located along ...

lies about to the southeast of Tretten. The village has a population (2021) of 860 and a

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of . The village had its own sports team ''Tretten IL'' until 1990, when a merger created

Øyer-Tretten IF Øyer-Tretten Idrettsforening is a multi-sports club from Øyer, Norway. It was founded on 29 November 1990 as a merger between Øyer IL (founded on 23 November 1913 and based in Granrudmoen) and Tretten IL (founded on 31 May 1920 and based in ...

. The village is also the site of

Tretten Church Tretten Church ( no, Tretten kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Øyer Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the village of Tretten. It is the church for the Tretten parish which is part of the Sør-Gudbrandsd ...

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 The Tretten train disaster occurred on 22 February 1975 when a northbound train (no. 351) from Oslo and a southbound express train (no. 404) from Trondheim, both loaded with vacationing skiers, collided head-on north of Tretten station. With 27 kil ...

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 Tretten Bridge was a road bridge in Tretten, Øyer, Norway that carried county road 254 over Gudbrandsdalen and the E6 road. The bridge was a truss bridge in glulam and steel and was opened on 15 June 2012. It collapsed on the morning of 15 August ...

over the Gudbrandsdalslågen river completely collapsed; it had beams of

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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.

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Øyer Villages in Innlandet Populated places on the Gudbrandsdalslågen {{Innlandet-geo-stub

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