Lillestrøm is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

Akershus Akershus () is a county in Norway, with Oslo as its administrative centre, though Oslo is not located within Akershus. Akershus has been a region in Eastern Norway with Oslo as its main city since the Middle Ages, and is named after the Akers ...

county. It is located in the traditional district of

Romerike Romerike is a Districts of Norway, traditional district located north-east of Oslo, in what is today south-eastern Norway. It consists of the Akershus municipalities Lillestrøm, Lørenskog, Nittedal, Rælingen and Aurskog-Høland in the southern ...

. With a population of 85,757 inhabitants, it is the fourth most populated municipality in Viken. It was founded on 1 January 2020 as a merger between former municipalities

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Skedsmo Skedsmo was a Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Akershus Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway, traditional region of Romerike. The administrative centre of the municipality was the List of cities in No ...

and

Sørum Sørum was a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Romerike. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Sørumsand. Sørum was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see ...

. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillestrøm. The town of Lillestrøm is a part of the

Oslo Oslo ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of 1,064,235 in 2022 ...

metropolitan area.

History

The name means "the little art ofStrøm", Strøm being the name of an old and large farm (

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: ''straumr'', which also meant "stream" as well). Lillestrøm's history dates back to the times river powered sawmills came into use for the production of building materials. Later Lillestrøm got its own steam sawmill which laid the base for the development of the area which became the town. The area was, by and large, a moss covered swamp-like area, at the time considered almost uninhabitable. However, the almost non-existent property values were judged to be a fair exchange and so the workers started living and settling in the area around the sawmill, and Lillestrøm was born. On 1 January 1908 Lillestrøm became a

of its own, having been split from

. At that time Lillestrøm municipality had a population of 4,351. On 1 January 1962 the two municipalities were reunited under the name Skedsmo. Before the merger Lillestrøm municipality had a population of 10,840. In 1997, Skedsmo municipal council declared Lillestrøm to be a town (''by'') in its own right (a purely honorary status which has no effect upon the organization of local government, but is a matter of local pride nonetheless). The event is commemorated in an annual 4-day street fair, which includes music by high-profile Norwegian artists on several outdoor stages, food stalls, retail business exhibitions, and thrill rides. The whole thing (with free admission to all) is held in Lillestrøm's main thoroughfare and its connecting streets, which are closed to all vehicles for the duration. In 2002, Norway Trade Fairs moved from

Skøyen Skøyen is a neighborhood of Oslo, Norway. It is located in the western part of the city, in the borough of Ullern. The district has an increasing share of business activities, a development started in the 80s. Skøyen is the site of Skøyenpa ...

to Lillestrøm.

Transport

Road

Norwegian national road 159 is a four-lane motorway connecting central Lillestrøm directly to Oslo. The

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bypasses Lillestrøm a few kilometres to the west on its way from Oslo to the north of the country. National road 22, running from northwest to southeast, passes through the northern outskirts of the conurbation.

Rail

Lillestrøm is connected to Oslo by two separate railway lines. The

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(opened 1854) runs to Oslo via the

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and is used mostly by commuter trains calling at all stations, as well as freight trains. Non-stop commuter trains, airport express trains, and long-distance expresses use the high-speed

Gardermoen Line The Gardermoen Line () is a high-speed railway line between Oslo and Eidsvoll, Norway, running past Lillestrøm and Oslo Airport, Gardermoen. The line is long and replaced the older Hoved Line as the main line north-east of Oslo. The older ...

(opened 1999), which runs mostly in tunnel to Oslo. The Trunk Line north of Lillestrøm carries frequent local passenger trains as far as

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as well as freight trains to

Eidsvoll Eidsvoll (; sometimes written as ''Eidsvold'') is a Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Akershus Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Romerike Districts of Norway, traditional region. The administrative centre of the munic ...

Lillehammer Lillehammer () is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. Some of the more notable villages in the munici ...

, and

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 is ...

. The Gardermoen Line (the stretch of which north of Lillestrøm opened in 1998) is used by airport express trains, regional trains to

and

, and long-distance passenger services to

. Running north-east from Lillestrøm, the

Kongsvinger Line The Kongsvinger Line () is a railway line between the towns of Lillestrøm and Kongsvinger in Norway and onwards to Charlottenberg in Sweden. The railway was opened on 3 October 1862 and is Norway's second standard gauge line (after the Hoved ...

(opened 1862) conveys hourly local trains to

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as well as a number of longer-distance trains, passenger and freight, to and from

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Air

Kjeller Kjeller is a village located near Lillestrøm in the municipality of Lillestrøm, Norway. It is located 25 kilometers north-east of Oslo. Name The Norse form of the name was probably ''Tjaldir''. This is then the plural of ''tjald'' n 'tent'. ...

, a village north of the town of Lillestrøm, is the site of Kjeller Airfield, founded in 1912, which has the closest operational

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to Oslo city centre. However, this is overshadowed by the much larger international airport at

Gardermoen Oslo Airport () , alternatively referred to as Oslo Gardermoen Airport or simply Gardermoen, is an international airport serving Oslo, the capital and most populous city of Norway. The airport is the second largest in Scandinavia and the Nordi ...

(opened 1998), which is further north but just 12 minutes away from Lillestrøm railway station by high-speed rail.

Education

Lillestrøm is home to the following

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, lower secondary, and upper secondary schools:

Primary

Lower secondary

*Asak skole *Bingsfoss ungdomsskole *Bråtejordet skole *Frogner skole *Kjeller skole *Kjellervolla skole *Stav skole *Østersund ungdomsskole

Upper secondary

*Lillestrøm videregående skole *Skedsmo videregående skole *Strømmen videregående skole *Sørumsand videregående skole

Government

Lillestrøm municipality is controlled by the local Labor party, with Jørgen Vik as the mayor, he has been mayor since the 2020 merger. The head office of

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is located in Lillestrøm, and is led by Grete Myhre. The University College of Norwegian Correctional Service (Kriminalomsorgens høgskole og utdanningssenter, KRUS) is in Lillestrøm.

Facilities

Facilities in Lillestrøm include hotels, Norway trade fairs, a brand new cinema, a mall, Lillestrøm torv, restaurants, a high speed commuter train that reaches both Oslo and Gardermoen airport (the

), a community cultural house (kulturhus), and a community outdoor swimming pool complex. At

, just outside the city, there is a military airport (1912) and several research institutes.

Sport

The local

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club,

Lillestrøm SK Lillestrøm Sportsklubb is a Norwegian professional football club based in the city of Lillestrøm, just outside of the capital Oslo. Lillestrøm SK is a Norwegian football club based in Lillestrøm, playing in Eliteserien. The club was founde ...

was founded in 1917 and currently plays in the

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. The club is among the most successful in Norwegian football and has won five league titles in addition to six

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. During the 70s, the club went through the divisions with back-to-back promotions before eventually winning the double in

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, largely thanks to their legendary player Tom Lund. Their home ground is Åråsen Stadion which accommodates 10,540 spectators. * League champion: **Winners (5): 1958–59,

1976 Events January * January 2 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 18 – Full diplomatic ...

1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. ** Spain and Portugal en ...

1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...

**Runners-up (8): 1959–60,

1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd ...

1983 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the ...

1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a n ...

1988 1988 was a crucial year in the early history of the Internet—it was the year of the first well-known computer virus, the Morris worm, 1988 Internet worm. The first permanent intercontinental Internet link was made between the United State ...

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

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: **Winners (6):

1981 Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 6 – A funeral service is held in West Germany for Nazi Grand Admiral ...

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

**Runners-up (8):

1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito ...

1955 Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijian ...

1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the thir ...

1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a United States grain embargo against the Soviet Union, grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning Sys ...

1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

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: **Runners-up (1): 2005-06 The nearby Lillestrøm stadion is used for training, and was an

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venue at the

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. There are also two indoor arenas, one multi-purpose ( Skedsmohallen) and one for football (

LSK-Hallen LSK-Hallen is an indoor football (soccer), football arena with an artificial turf in Lillestrøm, Norway. It is owned, used, and operated by Lillestrøm Sportsklubb. It has a capacity of 1,800 people. LSK-hallen is the home ground for LSK 2 and L ...

), and in 2007 a track and field stadium Romerike Friidrettsstadion was built as a cooperation between the municipalities Skedsmo,

Rælingen Rælingen is a village and Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Akershus Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway, traditional region of Romerike. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village ...

and

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. The local track and field club is named Minerva. Athletes such as

Hanne Haugland Hanne Birgit Haugland (born 14 December 1967 in Haugesund) is a former Norway, Norwegian high jumper. She represented the clubs Haugesund IL, IL i BUL, SK Vidar and IF Minerva during her senior career. Biography In her early international car ...

and Håkon Särnblom have represented the club. Rugby is represented by newly formed Rugby League club Lillestrøm Lions RLK.

Notable people

Claus Wiese Claus Wiese (March 1, 1924 – September 7, 1987) was a Norwegian actor and American-based radio broadcaster. Wiese was born in Lillestrøm. He graduated from the Oslo Cathedral School in 1944 and worked as an actor with the Oslo New Theater ...

(1924–1987), a Norwegian actor and American-based radio broadcaster *

Ole Edvard Borgen Ole Edvard Borgen (8 November 1925 – 24 March 2009) was a Norwegian theologian and Methodist bishop. He was born in Lillestrøm as a son of meat merchant Omar Emil Borgen (1900–1985) and Harda Pytte (1901–1989), and older brother of Peder B ...

(1925–2009), a Norwegian theologian and Methodist bishop * Carl Fredrik Lowzow (1927–2009), local and national politician *

Peder Borgen Peder Johan Borgen (26 January 1928 – 8 April 2023) was a Norwegian Methodist minister, had a Doctorate in Theology, and was a professor at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He was considered to be a pioneer "within the theological ...

(born 1928), a Norwegian Methodist minister, researches the

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Gerd Grønvold Saue Gerd Grønvold Saue (20 January 1930 – 22 June 2022) was a Norwegian journalist, literary critic, novelist, hymnwriter, and peace activist. Her authorship mainly comprised novels, many of which convey her Christian views. Biography She grew up i ...

(born 1930), journalist, novelist, hymnwriter and peace activist *

Jan Mangerud Jan Mangerud (born 29 November 1937 in Oslo) is a Norwegian geologist who grew up in Lillestrøm, Akershus, and currently lives in Rådal, Bergen. Scientific career Mangerud graduated from the University of Oslo with a Bachelor's degree ( ca ...

(born 1937), geologist, grew up in Lillestrøm *

Arild Andersen Arild Andersen (born 27 October 1945) is a Norwegian jazz musician bassist, known as the most famous Norwegian bass player in the international jazz scene. Career Andersen was born at Strømmen, Norway. He started his musical career as jazz g ...

(born 1945), a Norwegian jazz bass player, born in Strømmen *

Sasha Gabor Gábor Sárközy or Gabor Sarkøzy (born Sámuel Guttmann, 6 June 1945 – 27 June 2008), known professionally as Sasha Gabor, was a Hungarian-Norwegian actor and director. As a youth, he moved to Norway as a Hungarian refugee, eventually moving ...

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retrieved 19 February 2021 *

Ole Kristian Ruud Ole Kristian Ruud (born 2 October 1958) is a Norwegian conductor. Ruud was born in Lillestrøm. He studied clarinet with Richard Kjelstrup at the Norwegian Academy of Music. He studied conducting at the Sibelius Academy and made his debut in Os ...

(born 1958), a conductor at the

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Anne Holt Anne Holt (born 16 November 1958) is a Norwegian author, lawyer and former Minister of Justice and the Police (Norway), Minister of Justice. Early life She was born in Larvik, grew up in Lillestrøm and Tromsø, and moved to Oslo in 1978. Holt g ...

(born 1958), author, lawyer and politician; grew up in Lillestrøm *

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(born 1972), media professional for

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Chris Holsten Christoffer "Chris" Holsten (born May 4, 1993) is a Norwegian singer, songwriter and producer.
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(born 1993), a Norwegian singer and songwriter

Sport

* Tom Lund (born 1950), footballer, 247 club caps with

and 47 for

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Kay Stenshjemmet Kay Arne Stenshjemmet (born 9 August 1953) is a former speed skater from Norway. Short biography Together with Amund Sjøbrend, Sten Stensen, and Jan Egil Storholt, Kay Stenshjemmet was one of the legendary ''four S-es'' (which sounds like "four ...

(born 1953), speed skater, two silver medals at the

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* Erik Solér (born 1960), a former footballer with 39 caps with

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* Bjørn Nyland (born 1962), a Norwegian speed skater *

Bente Nordby Bente Dalum Nordby (born 23 July 1974) is a former Norwegian football goalkeeper. She played with the Norway women's national football team from 1991 to 2007. Career Nordby is the second-most capped player ever for Norway with 172 internatio ...

(born 1974), a former football goalkeeper, with 172 caps with Norway women *

Pål Steffen Andresen Pål Steffen Andresen (born 19 May 1982) is a Norwegian football defender who plays for Strømmen IF, Strømmen. Club career Andresen spent his entire career with Lillestrøm SK before joining Ull/Kisa in 2012. He has been capped 4 times for the ...

(born 1982), footballer with over 320 club caps * Fredrik Gulbrandsen (born 1992), footballer with over 220 club caps * Thomas Skoglund (born 1983), handball player, 41 matches with the Norwegian national team

References

External links

Municipality website

Norwegian Defense Research EstablishmentAirport train, "Flytoget"Lillestrøm torv

Lillstrøm Sportsclub, LSK

Lillestrøm cultural centre

VisitLillestrom.no
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