Hurdal is a municipality in

Akershus Akershus () is a traditional region and current electoral district in Norway, with Oslo as its main city and traditional capital. It is named after the Akershus Fortress in Oslo. From the middle ages to 1919, Akershus was a fief and main county ...

in Viken county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Romerike. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Hurdal. Hurdal is located about north of Oslo, along the lake Hurdalsjøen.

Fjellsjøkampen Fjellsjøkampen is a top in Hurdal, Akershus, Norway. It is the highest point in Akershus. See also *List of highest points of Norwegian counties This is a list of the highest points (mountains, hills, glaciers) of all Norwegian counties. ...

is the highest hill in Akershus. The mountain

Toppåsen Toppåsen is a mountain of Hurdal municipality in the Akershus region of southeastern Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western an ...

is also located in the municipality.

General information

Name

The name ( Old Norse: ''Urðardalr'' and ''Hurðardalr'') is an old district name. (The name of the church site is ''Gjøing''.) The first element is the

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of an old river name (later called ''Gjøingelva'' which means "Gjøing river"), probably ''Urð'' which means "stony river" (from ''urð'' which means " scree"). (The sideform ''Hurðardalr'' has an addition of a false / h/.) The last element is ''dalr'' meaning " valley" or "dale". Prior to 1918, the name was spelled ''"Hurdalen"''.

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted in 1988. The arms are green with a yellow-colored cone from a

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tree (''Picea abies'').

History

The parish of ''Hurdalen'' was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see

formannskapsdistrikt () is the name for Norwegian local self-government districts that were legally enacted on 1 January 1838. This system of municipalities was created in a bill approved by the Parliament of Norway and signed into law by King Carl Johan on 14 January ...

). The new municipality of Feiring was separated from Hurdal on 1 January 1870.

Attractions

* Holy Trifon Skete, an Eastern Orthodox monastery of Orthodox church in Norway (Saint Nicolas commune). The monastery was established in 1985.Russian flag in Norwegian monastery
. Tidsskrift for Russisktalende i Norge ''Landsmann'' ( Bergen).

Notable residents

Børre Rognlien Børre Rognlien (born 26 December 1944) is a Norwegian sports official and politician for the Conservative Party. He started his career as a journalist and military officer. He is best known for administrating speed skating, and as a politician ...

(born 1944 in Hurdal) a sports official and politician, former journalist and military officer * Harald Sunde (born 1954 in Hurdal) a military officer, head of the Norwegian Armed Forces 2009 to 2013 *

Robert Sørlie Robert Walter Sørlie (born 15 February 1958), (pronounced: /sir-lee/) commonly "Sorlie" in English, is a two-time Iditarod champion Norwegian dog musher and dog sled racer from Hurdal. Together with Kjetil Backen and his nephew, Bjørnar Ander ...

(born 1958 in Hurdal) - dog sled racer, winner of Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 2003 and 2005 *

Kjetil Mulelid Kjetil André Mulelid (born 4 February 1991 in Hurdal, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz pianist and composer known from his own work with Kjetil Mulelid Trio, Kjemilie and Wako, and from collaborations with musicians like Siril Malmedal Hauge, Arve He ...

(born 1991 in Hurdal) a Norwegian jazz pianist and composer

Gallery

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References

External links

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Municipal fact sheet
from

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