Tveit is a village and surrounding district in

Oddernes Oddernes is a borough in the city of Kristiansand which lies in the municipality of Kristiansand in Agder county, Norway. The borough covers eastern Kristiansand on the east side of the Topdalsfjorden and the Varodd Bridge. The borough include ...

borough in the city of Kristiansand in Agder county, Norway. The Tveit district is located in the northeastern part of Kristiansand, northeast of the

Topdalsfjorden Topdalsfjorden or Tofdalsfjorden is a fjord in the municipality of Kristiansand in Agder county, Norway. The long fjord runs from the village of Ålefjær south to the city centre of Kristiansand. The river Topdalselva empties into the fjord at ...

along the lower part of the Tovdalselva river. Tveit is the site of the main airport for Southern Norway:

Kristiansand Airport, Kjevik Kristiansand Airport ( no, Kristiansand lufthavn; ) is an international airport serving Kristiansand Municipality in Agder county, Norway. The airport is located in the district of Tveit in the Oddernes borough, about by road and by air from th ...

. The district was the separate municipality of Tveit from 1838 until it was merged into Kristiansand in 1965. The village of Tveit lies along the Tovdalselva river, about northeast of the airport. Tveit Church is located in the village. The stone church was built in the 12th century, and it is the oldest building in the village. The village has a population (2016) of 1,418 which gives the village a population density of .

Name

The district (originally the parish) was named after the old ''Tveit'' farm ( Old Norse: ''Þveit''), since the Tveit Church was built there. The name is identical with the word ''þveit'' which means "a piece of cleared land cut from a forest". The name spelled differently over the centuries: ''Tved'', ''Thvet'', and ''Tveid''.

Sports

In 2010, the Kristiansand City Council had a vote on which district should have a new ''sports hall''. The 2 finalists were Tveit and Randesund. In a final bid to win the facility, the people from Tveit launched a supporters meeting outside the council offices with about 300 attendees. Randesund supporters were also there numbering about 10. The same day it was announced that Tveit had won the bid. Therefore a new Tveit sports hall will be built in the coming years with a budget of . Currently there is a small sports hall in Tveit at the Ve School which is used by various organisations. Th
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is also the largest ski resort in Kristiansand. It even has ski escalators.

Transportation

Politics

The 10 largest politics parties in Tveit as of 2015:

Neighbourhoods

* Boen * Bjørndalen * Brattvollsheia * Drangsholt * Dønnestad * Foss * Grødum * Hamre * Hamreheia * Hamresanden * Kjevik * Kråkebumoen * Ryen * Solsletta * Topdalen * Ve

Media gallery

File:Tveit-kirke.JPG, Tveit Church from the 12th century File:Hamre-5.jpg, Hamre File:Hamre-1.jpg, Hamreheia File:Hamre-2.jpg, Hamreheia File:Tveit-1.jpg, Ryen File:Tveit-5.jpg, Kilåsen File:Tveit-7.jpg, Solsletta File:Tveit-8.JPG, Ve File:Kjevik-Hamresanden.jpg, Kjevik Airport seen from Hamresanden File:Tovdalselva 01.jpg, Topdalselva with

in the background

Notable residents

Bernt Balchen Bernt Balchen (23 October 1899 – 17 October 1973) was a Norwegian pioneer polar aviator, navigator, aircraft mechanical engineer and military leader. A Norwegian native, he later became an American citizen and was a recipient of the Distingu ...

(1899–1973), a Norwegian American

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* Marcus Gjøe Rosenkrantz, the First Minister of Norway from 1814–1815 *Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard (born 1968).

Notable visitor

*Former Vice President of the United States, Hubert Humphrey (1911–1978), had family ties to the area, and visited relatives here in 1951 and 1969, and is honored by a memorial stone near Tveit Church.