Klæbu is a village in

Trondheim Municipality Trondheim ( , , ; ), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros, and Trondhjem (), is a city and List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2022, it had a population of 212,660. Trondheim is the third most populou ...

Trøndelag Trøndelag (; or is a county and coextensive with the Trøndelag region (also known as ''Midt-Norge'' or ''Midt-Noreg,'' "Mid-Norway") in the central part of Norway. It was created in 1687, then named Trondhjem County (); in 1804 the county was ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...

. The village is located on the eastern shore of the river

Nidelva Nidelva is a river in Trondheim in Trøndelag county, Norway. The name of the long river translates to "the River Nid" since the suffix ''elva'' is the Norwegian language, Norwegian word for "the river". Location The Nidelva starts at the Hytt ...

, about east of the village of

Tanem Tanem is a village in Trondheim Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located between Nidelva river and Vassfjellet approximately west of the village of Klæbu which sits on the other side of the river. The village has a populati ...

and about south of the

city of Trondheim Trondheim ( , , ; ), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros, and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2022, it had a population of 212,660. Trondheim is the third most populous municipality in Norway, and i ...

. The village sits at the junction of

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s 805 and 921. The historic

Klæbu Church Klæbu Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Trondheim Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the village of Klæbu. It is the church for the Klæbu parish which is part of the Heimdal og Byåsen prosti (d ...

is located in the village. The village has a population (2024) of 3,545 and a

population density Population density (in agriculture: Standing stock (disambiguation), standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geog ...

of . The newspaper ''

KlæbuPosten ''KlæbuPosten'' (The Klæbu Gazette) is a local Norwegian newspaper published in Klæbu in the municipality of Trondheim in Trøndelag county. The newspaper was launched in February 2007, and it is published on Wednesdays. Editors *Svein Halvor ...

'' is published in Klæbu.

History

The village was the

administrative centre An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune, is located. In countries with French as the administrative language, such as Belgi ...

of the old

Klæbu Municipality Klæbu is a List of former municipalities of Norway, former municipality in Trøndelag Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 2020 when it was incorporated into the neighboring Trondheim Municipality. It ...

which existed from 1838 until 2020 when it was merged into

References

Villages in Trøndelag Klæbu {{Trøndelag-geo-stub