Nannestad

Nannestad kommune
Nannestad kommune
	Municipality
	Coat of arms Viken within ; Norway
	Nannestad within Viken
	Coordinates: 60°14′44″N 10°57′10″E
Country	Norway
County	Viken
District	Romerike
Administrative centre	Teigebyen
Government
• Mayor (2007-)	Anne-Ragni K. Amundsen (Ap)
Area
• Total	341 km2 (132 sq mi)
• Land	324 km2 (125 sq mi)
Area rank	259 in Norway
Population (2012)
• Total	11,362
• Rank	102 in Norway
• Density	31/km2 (80/sq mi)
• Change (10 years)	23.0%
Demonym(s)	Nannestadsokning[1]
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	NO-3036
Official language form	Bokmål[2]
Website	www.nannestad.kommune.no
	Data from Statistics Norway

Nannestad is a municipality in Akershus in Viken county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Romerike. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Teigebyen.

History

Nannestad was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt).

Store norske leksikon writes that "At søndre Låke gård (a farm), South of Nannestad Church, Skule Bårdsson beat Birkebeinar (a political group), [... on a battlefield] South of the farm".[3]

Name and coat-of-arms

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Nannestad farm (Old Norse: Nannastaðir), since the first church was built here. The first element is the genitive case of Nanni (an old Norse male name) and the last element is staðir which means "homestead" or "farm".

The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted in 1990. The arms show three yellow coltsfoot flowers on a green background. This is a flower that is prevalent in the area.[4]

Geography

Nannestad is located in northwestern Viken county, with inhabitants concentrated at Romerikssletta. It includes the villages of Maura, Åsgreina, Eltonåsen, Steinsgård and Teigebyen, that last being the administrative centre.

Demographics

In 2017, 539 inhabitants had Polish parents and/or were Polish (themselves); 239 had Lithuanian parents and/or were Lithuanian.[5]

Ancestry	Number[6]
Poland	539
Lithuania	239
Pakistan	179
Sweden	156
Philippines	143
Thailand	117
Germany	61
Romania	56
Iran	56
Syria	53

Nannestad plaza
Nannestad upper secondary school
Field of Nannestad

References

"Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
"Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
https://snl.no/Nannestad "På søndre Låke gård, sør for Nannestad kirke, skal hertug Skule Bårdsson ha slått birkebeinerne i et slag sør for gården i 1240."
"Kommunevåpen" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2008-12-20.
"Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents, by immigration category, country background and percentages of the population". ssb.no. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
"Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents, by immigration category, country background and percentages of the population". ssb.no. Retrieved 25 June 2017.

External links

Media related to Nannestad at Wikimedia Commons
The dictionary definition of Nannestad at Wiktionary
Municipal fact sheet from Statistics Norway
Akershus travel guide from Wikivoyage
Municipality website (in Norwegian)

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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] ttps://snl.no/Nannestad "På søndre Låke gård, sør for Nannestad kirke, skal hertug Skule Bårdsson ha slått birkebeinerne i et slag sør for gården i 1240."

[4] "Kommunevåpen" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2008-12-20.

[5] "Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents, by immigration category, country background and percentages of the population". ssb.no. Retrieved 25 June 2017.

[6] "Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents, by immigration category, country background and percentages of the population". ssb.no. Retrieved 25 June 2017.