Lier, Norway

Lier kommune
Lier kommune
	Municipality
	City Hall in Lierbyen
	Coat of arms Viken within ; Norway
	Lier within Viken
	Coordinates: 59.7937863°N 10.2660000°E
Country	Norway
County	Viken
District	Middle Viken
Administrative centre	Lierbyen
Government
• Mayor (2011)	Helene Justad (H)
Area
• Total	301 km2 (116 sq mi)
• Land	281 km2 (108 sq mi)
Area rank	277 in Norway
Population (24971)
• Total	21,594
• Rank	40 in Norway
• Density	77/km2 (200/sq mi)
• Change (10 years)	9.8%
Demonym(s)	Liung[1]
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	NO-3049
Official language form	Bokmål[2]
Website	www.lier.kommune.no
	Data from Statistics Norway

Lier is a municipality in Viken county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Lierbyen. The municipality of Lier was established on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The area Åssiden was transferred from Lier to the neighboring municipality of Drammen on 1 July 1951.

Norway's longest indoor shopping center, Liertoppen, is located in Lierskogen. The newspaper Lierposten is published in Lier.[3]

General information

Name

The Old Norse form of the name was Líðir. The name is the plural form of líð which means "hillside".

Coat of arms

The coat of arms and was designed by Hallvard Trætteberg and granted on 14 August 1970. The arms show five silver-colored apple blossoms on a red background. The area is well known for the production of various types of fruit, berries, vegetables, and flowers, so this was chosen as a symbol of the area's lush scenery and agriculture.[4][5]

**Number of minorities (1st and 2nd generation) in Lier by country of origin in 2017**[6]
Ancestry	Number
Poland	1,199
Lithuania	343
Somalia	310
India	301
Pakistan	245
Iraq	197
Vietnam	186
Germany	166
Sweden	162
Kosovo	153

Geography

Lier borders to the municipalities of Asker, Bærum, Drammen, Modum and Hole. It includes the villages of Lierbyen, Sylling, Sjåstad, Nøste, Gullaug, Lierskogen, and Tranby.

Lier is thought of as a "green lung" for Norway's capital, Oslo, with its vast number of fields and apple trees. It is also famous for its agricultural products as strawberries and vegetables.

The Gilhusodden Nature Preserve is home of many different bird species. The area is also used for recreation, especially swimming and sunbathing, with its long, shallow beach.

Notable residents

Sæbjørn Buttedahl, actor and sculptor
Bjørn Eidsvåg, artist and preacher, born in Sauda
Karin Fossum, author, living in Sylling/Lier
Thorleif Haug (1894–1934), skier/ski jumper
Hans Christian Heg, Abolitionist, American Civil War officer (Union)
Thorbjørn Jagland, politician, former prime minister,currently Secretary General of the Council of Europe
Martin Kolberg, secretary of The Norwegian Labour Party
Gert Nygårdshaug, author
Sten Stensen, speed skater
Hallvard Vebjørnsson or St. Hallvard, Oslo's patron saint, was born in Lier
Ole Ivar Lovaas, pioneering behaviorist, was born in Lier.

Attractions

Frogner Kirke

Frogner parsonage

Bygdeborgen – village stronghold from the Middle Ages on Fosskollen
Frogner Kirke – romanesque parish church built in 1650
Gilhusodden – Nature Preserve
Gjellebekk skanse – defence bulwark during the Great Northern War which prevented a Swedish invasion of Norway in 1716
Lier Bygdetun – Rural Museum including a 40-acre (160,000 m²) farm
Hans Christian Heg statue - at Haugestad in the community of Lierbyen
St. Hallvard's minne – memorial of St. Hallvard, patron saint of Oslo
Sylling cemetery – Ten British RAF Airmen are buried in the Commonwealth War Graves Plot

Twin towns – sister cities

Lier is twinned with:[7]

Falköping, Sweden
Kokemäki, Finland
Mariagerfjord, Denmark

Gallery

Liertoppen Shopping Center
Gamle Hegg skole
Jacobsen Elektro main office
Hvalsdammen

References

"Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
"Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
Store norske leksikon: Lierposten.
Norske Kommunevåpen (1990). "Nye kommunevåbener i Norden". Retrieved 10 January 2009.
"Liers kommunevåpen" (in Norwegian). Lier kommune. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 10 January 2009.
"Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents". ssb.no. Archived from the original on 2 July 2015. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
"Utveksling er topp". lierposten.no (in Norwegian). Lierposten. 14 April 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2021.

External links

Municipal fact sheet from Statistics Norway
Buskerud travel guide from Wikivoyage
Lier Bygdetun
Lier Historielag
Sylling churchyard

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[1] "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.

[2] "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.

[3] Store norske leksikon: Lierposten.

[4] Norske Kommunevåpen (1990). "Nye kommunevåbener i Norden". Retrieved 10 January 2009.

[5] "Liers kommunevåpen" (in Norwegian). Lier kommune. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 10 January 2009.

[6] "Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents". ssb.no. Archived from the original on 2 July 2015. Retrieved 30 July 2017.

[7] "Utveksling er topp". lierposten.no (in Norwegian). Lierposten. 14 April 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2021.