Kyrksæterøra is the

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Heim Municipality Heim is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It was established on 1 January 2020 upon the merger of three other municipalities. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district ...

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,

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. The village was known as the "white town of

Hemnfjorden Hemnfjorden is a fjord in Trøndelag county in Norway. The long fjord forms the boundary between Heim Municipality, Hitra Municipality, and Orkland Municipality. The fjord begins at the village of Kyrksæterøra at the mouths of the rivers Søo ...

" at one time because there were only white houses. It is located at the end of

, about southwest of the village of Holla. The villages of

Hellandsjøen Hellandsjøen is a village in Heim Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located near the Trondheimsleia and the Hemnfjorden, about west of the village of Heim and about north of the municipal center of Kyrksæterøra Kyrksæte ...

and

Heim Heim is the German, Norwegian, Icelandic and Faroese equivalent of the English word ''home''. It is a common German and Norwegian suffix in place names such as Mannheim and Trondheim. In Norwegian place names, the suffix is often weakened to just ...

both lie to the north and the village of

Vinjeøra Vinjeøra is a village in Heim Municipality, in the Trøndelag county of Norway. The village lies along the European route E39 highway, in particularly at the end of the Vinjefjorden and about south of the municipal center of Kyrksæterøra. Th ...

lies to the south.

Hemne Church Hemne Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Heim Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the village of Kyrksæterøra. It is the church for the Hemne parish which is part of the Orkdal prosti (deanery) in th ...

is located in the village.

Norwegian County Road 680 Norwegian County Road 680 () is a road passing through Kristiansund Municipality and Aure Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county and Heim Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. In addition to its land length ( in Møre og Romsdal and in Tr ...

passes through the village. The newspaper ''

Søvesten ''Søvesten'' (The Southwest) is a local Norwegian newspaper published in Kyrksæterøra in Trøndelag county. The newspaper was launched in 1994. It appears once a week, on Thursdays. It is edited by May S. Bjørkaas. Circulation According to the ...

'' has been published in Kyrksæterøra since 1994. The village has a population (2024) of 2,598 and a

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of . At one time, there was a shoe factory, a

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, a lumber mill, and fish processing plant in the area. Kyrksæterøra was bombed during

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, but there were no deaths and there was minimal damage. Nearby, the

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also had a large

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for

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Name

The name of the village is a compound name combining ''Kyrksæter'' and the suffix ''-øra''. The first element of the name is the name of the old farm ''Kyrksæter'' (). The first part of the farm name is which means "church" (since the first

was built on this site). The last part of the farm name is the old name or , which is a is a compound of the river name ''

Søo The Søo is a river in Heim Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The long river originates at Lake Søo (''Søvatnet''), which lies on the border of Orkland Municipality, Heim Municipality, and Rindal Municipality. The lake sits at an el ...

'' and the word which means "meadow" or "pasture". The name of the river is derived from the verb which means "seethe" or "boil" (referring to the

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of the waterfalls in the river). The last element of the village name is the suffix ''-øra'' which is the articulated form of which means "sandbank (at the mouth of a river)". The name was spelled ''Kirksæterøra'' before the early 20th century.

Notable people

Erik Hoftun Erik Hoftun (born 3 March 1969) is a Norwegian former professional footballer who played as a central defender. Career Born in Kyrksæterøra, Hoftun started his career at KIL/Hemne before moving to Molde FK in 1992. He went to Rosenborg BK in 1 ...

(b. 1969), a former football defender with 30 caps for

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Media gallery

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References

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