Tydal is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The

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of the municipality is the village of Ås. Other villages include Østby, Gressli,

Aunet Aunet is a village in the municipality of Tydal in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is located along the Nea River , , or is an long river which has runs through the municipalities of Tydal and Selbu in Trøndelag county, Norway and Å ...

, and Stugudalen. There is a school and a kindergarten in Tydal. The inhabitants of Tydal earn a living in farming, forestry, energy production, and tourism. During Easter, the number of people in Tydal increases by up to 5,000 people. Many people from Trondheim celebrate their holidays in the 1,400 cabins located throughout the municipality of Tydal. The municipality is the 75th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Tydal is the 346th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 750. The municipality's population density is and its population has decreased by 13.8% over the previous 10-year period.

General information

The municipality of Tydal was established on 1 January 1901 when it was separated from the large municipality of Selbu. The initial population of Tydal was 881. The municipal borders have not changed since that time. On 1 January 2018, the municipality switched from the old

Sør-Trøndelag Sør-Trøndelag () was a county comprising the southern portion of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. It bordered the old Nord-Trøndelag county as well as the counties of Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, and Hedmark. To the west is the No ...

county to the newly created Trøndelag county.

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the Tya River. The first element of the name Tydal comes from the Old Norse word ''Þý'', the old river name, which has no known meaning, and the last element ( non, dalr) is means " valley" or "

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". The name was historically spelled ''Thidalen'' or ''Tydalen''.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was granted on 7 February 1997. It shows three gold

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es on a red background. This was chosen to represent a power line and the letter T, representing the name of the municipality and the importance of hydroelectric power generation in Tydal.

Churches

The

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has one parish () within the municipality of Tydal. It is part of the Stjørdal prosti (

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) in the

Diocese of Nidaros Nidaros is a diocese in the Lutheran Church of Norway. It covers Trøndelag county in Central Norway and its cathedral city is Trondheim, which houses the well-known Nidaros Cathedral. Since 10 September 2017, the Bishop of Nidaros is Herborg ...

Government

All municipalities in Norway, including Tydal, are responsible for

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(through 10th grade), outpatient

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, senior citizen services, unemployment and other

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, zoning, economic development, and municipal roads. The municipality is governed by a municipal council of elected representatives, which in turn elect a mayor. The municipality falls under the Trøndelag District Court and the Frostating Court of Appeal.

Municipal council

The municipal council () of Tydal is made up of 17 representatives that are elected to four year terms. The party breakdown of the council is as follows:

Mayor

The mayors of Tydal (incomplete list): *2019–present: Jens Arne Kvello ( Sp) *2015-2019: Ole Bjarne Østby (Sp) *2011-2015: John Paulsby ( V) *2007-2011: Kari Slungård (V)

Geography

Tydal covers an area of . The rivers Tya River and Nea River (together forming the Nea-Nidelvvassdraget watershed) flow through Tydal on their way towards

Trondheimsfjorden 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 ...

. Tydal is situated about above sea level, and the highest mountain is tall. In the southwest, the lake

Nesjøen Nesjøen (sometimes just ''Nesjø'') is an artificial lake (reservoir) in the municipality of Tydal in Trøndelag county, Norway. The lake is part of the Nea-Nidelv watershed which lies on the western part of the Sylan mountain range. The la ...

lies just west of the Sylan mountain range with the mountain

Storsylen Storsylen is a mountain in the municipality of Tydal in Trøndelag county, Norway. At , Storsylen is the highest mountain in the Sylan mountain range. The mountain summit lies less than west of the national border with Sweden and about east o ...

. In the north, the Skarvan and Roltdalen National Park is home to the mountain Fongen.

Transportation

Tydal is halfway between the town of Røros and the city of Trondheim, with Norwegian national road 705 as the most important road through Tydal.

Trondheim Airport, Værnes Trondheim Airport ( no, Trondheim lufthavn; ) is an international airport serving Trondheim, a city and List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The airport is located in Værnes, Trøndelag, Værnes, a vill ...

is one hour of driving away. There are daily bus connections to Trondheim, Værnes as well as to Røros.

Notable people

Iver Johan Unsgård Iver Johan Unsgård (26 June 1903 – 30 June 1993) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Sør-Trøndelag in 1958, and was re-elected on two occasions. He had previously been a deputy ...

(1903 in Tydal – 1993) a Norwegian politician, three times Mayor of Tydal 1945-1958

References

External links

*
Municipal fact sheet
from

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