Innset is a village in

Rennebu Municipality Rennebu is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Trøndelag Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Orkdalen Districts of Norway, region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Berkåk, located ...

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county,

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. The village is located along the Orkla River about southeast of the village of

Berkåk Berkåk is the administrative centre of Rennebu Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the Orkladalen valley along the river Orkla (river), Orkla. The village lies about north of the village of Ulsberg and southeast of the ...

, about southeast of the village of Ulsberg, and about northeast of the village of Kvikne (in neighboring

Tynset Municipality Tynset is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Østerdalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Tynset (town), ...

). Innset Church is located in the village, just north of the Norwegian National Road 3.

History

The

parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christianity, Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest#Christianity, priest, often termed a parish pries ...

of Innset (the village and surrounding rural area) was originally an annex to the old Kvikne Municipality (in

Hedmark Hedmark () was a Counties of Norway, county in Norway from 1 January 1919 to 31 December 2019, bordering Trøndelag to the north, Oppland to the west, Akershus to the south, and Sweden to the east. The county administration is in Hamar. Hedmar ...

county), but in 1966 it was transferred to

(in the old Sør-Trøndelag county) due to the work of the

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Name

The parish of Innset was established in 1642. It was named after the old ''Innset'' farm () since that was where the Innset Church was built. The first element is the genitive case of the name of the river Inna () and the last element is which means "mountain farm". The meaning of the river name is unknown. Until 1918 the name was written "Inset".

References

Villages in Trøndelag Rennebu {{Trøndelag-geo-stub