Øysand is a small village in the northwestern part of the municipality of

Melhus Melhus is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Gauldalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Melhus. Other villages include Gåsbakken, Hovin, Korsvegen, Kvål, Ler, Lundamo, S ...

Trøndelag Trøndelag (; sma, Trööndelage) is a county in the central part of Norway. It was created in 1687, then named Trondhjem County ( no, Trondhjems Amt); in 1804 the county was split into Nord-Trøndelag and Sør-Trøndelag by the King of Denma ...

county,

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 ...

. The village sits on the south side of the mouth of the Gaula River, at the head of the Gaulosen, an arm off the main

Trondheim Fjord The Trondheim Fjord or Trondheimsfjorden (), an inlet of the Norwegian Sea, is Norway's third-longest fjord at long. It is located in the west-central part of the country in Trøndelag county, and it stretches from the municipality of Ørland in ...

Geography

The Øysand area measures about . The Gaula River borders Øysand to the north and east, separating it from Leinstrand in the municipality of

Trondheim Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, and ...

. To the west there is a shallow sandy beach on the shore of Gaulosen, a branch of

. To the south, the section of European route E39 from Klett to

Orkanger Orkanger is a town and the administrative centre of Orkland municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The town is also a former municipality which existed from 1920 until 1963. The town sits at the end of the Orkdal Fjord, an arm of the Trondhe ...

crosses the area. Øysand is a flat plain and most of the land is used for growing grain. There is also some industry there and a campground along the beach. The best-known native of the area is the musician, composer, and actor Ivar Gafseth, who is known from the television series '' The Julekalender'' and the

Trøndelag Theater Trøndelag (; sma, Trööndelage) is a county in the central part of Norway. It was created in 1687, then named Trondhjem County ( no, Trondhjems Amt); in 1804 the county was split into Nord-Trøndelag and Sør-Trøndelag by the King of Denmark ...

Name

The name of the area was originally simply ''Øy'' 'island'. The name ''Øysand'' is also found spelled as ''Øysandan'' and ''Øysanden'', but these forms are hardly ever used in speech. The dative form of ''Øysand'' in the local dialect is ''på Øysaɲɲa''. In 2012, the Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority sought to standardize the spelling as Øysand.

Nordstern

During the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposi ...

, the Germans developed plans to create a new German metropolis in Øysand called Nordstern.

References

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