Notodden kommune | |
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Municipality | |
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) Coat of arms ) Vestfold og Telemark within Norway | |
) Notodden within Vestfold og Telemark | |
| Coordinates: 59°37′46″N 9°11′29″E / 59.62944°N 9.19139°E | |
| Country | Norway |
| County | Vestfold og Telemark |
| District | Aust-Telemark |
| Administrative centre | Notodden |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2015) | Gry Bløchlinger (Ap) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 914 km2 (353 sq mi) |
| • Land | 852 km2 (329 sq mi) |
| Area rank | 120 in Norway |
| Population (2005) | |
| • Total | 12,359 |
| • Rank | 90 in Norway |
| • Density | 14/km2 (40/sq mi) |
| • Change (10 years) | 0.5% |
| Demonym(s) | Notodding[1] |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| ISO 3166 code | NO-3808 |
| Official language form | Neutral[2] |
| Website | www |
| UNESCO World Heritage Site | |
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) The old ammonia factory at Notodden industrial site | |
| Criteria | Cultural: ii, iv |
| Reference | 1486 |
| Inscription | 2015 (39th session) |
| Area | 4,959.5 ha |
| Buffer zone | 33,967.6 ha |
Notodden is a city and municipality in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Øst-Telemark. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Notodden.
Notodden was separated from the municipality of Heddal in 1913 to become a separate city and municipality. On 1 January 1964, the rural municipalities of Heddal and Gransherad were merged into Notodden to form a new enlarged municipality.
Notodden is on the shore of Heddalsvatnet lake, and the Tinn River runs through the town into the lake. Norway's biggest stave church, Heddal Stave Church, can be seen a few kilometres from the city centre.
Notodden Airport, Tuven, is located west of the city centre. Norsk Hydro was founded in this town. Notodden is well known for the annual Notodden Blues Festival, which is considered one of the best blues festivals in Europe. It also has a well-known metal festival called Motstøy Festivalen.
The football club Notodden FK is headquartered here.
Name
The name "Notodden" comes from the cotter's place (husmannsplass) Notodden that belonged to the farm Tinne gård—near the mouth of the river Tinnelva close to the lake Heddalsvatnet.[3]
The first element of the name is not which means "to fish using a seine" and the last element is the finite form of odde meaning "headland". Thus the general meaning of the name is "the fishing place".
Coat-of-arms
The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 11 August 1939. The arms show a silver-colored river and four lightning strikes. One of the first hydroelectric power stations in Norway was established in the late 19th century at the Tinnfoss waterfall on the Tinn River.[4]
Twin towns
In 2008, Notodden city council decided to end the twin city agreements with Ilisalmi, Nyköping and Stelle. At the same time Suwałki was approved as a new twin city.[5][6]
The following cities are twinned with Notodden:
Clarksdale, Mississippi, United States
Suwałki, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland
Former twin cities of Notodden:
Iisalmi, Eastern Finland, Finland
Nyköping, Södermanland County, Sweden
Stelle, Lower Saxony, Germany
Notable residents
Notodden is the hometown of organist Kåre Nordstoga, the internationally known author Hans Herbjørnsrud who was born in Heddal, and the Hardanger fiddlemaker Olav Gunnarsson Helland (1875–1939) who many consider the finest of the twentieth century. Composer Klaus Egge, born 1906 in Gransherad, also lived in Notodden.
Olympic gold medalist Ådne Søndrål was born in Notodden.
American blues musician Seasick Steve, who is achieving fame in the United Kingdom, currently resides in Notodden. Norwegian blues musician Margit Bakken and painter and author Tor-Arne Moen also live in Notodden.
One of the most influential Norwegian black metal bands, Emperor, came from Notodden, as does Mortiis, Peccatum, Star of Ash, Leprous, and Zyklon. Emperor's singer, Ihsahn, still resides in Notodden.
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- Olav Andresen (1877 in Heddal - 1950) a Norwegian politician, Mayor of Notodden 1920's & 1930's
- Ambros Sollid (1880 in Heddal - 1973) an agronomist and politician, Mayor of Skien 1935–1937
- Carl Bugge (1881 in Heddal – 1968) a Norwegian geologist and academic
- Helga Stene (1904 in Notodden – 1983) an educator, feminist and resistance member
- Aage Eriksen (1917 in Notodden – 1998 in Notodden) a wrestler and silver medallist at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Egil Bergsland (1924 in Notodden - 2007) a Norwegian politician, Mayor of Notodden 1971 to 1975
- Sissel Sellæg (1928 in Notodden – 2014) a Norwegian actress [7]
- Hilde Mæhlum (born 1945 in Notodden) a Norwegian sculptor
- Magne Orre (born 1950 in Notodden) a cyclist, competed at the 1972 & 1976 Summer Olympics
- Helga Flatland (born 1984 in Notodden) a Norwegian novelist and children's writer
References
- ^ "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
- ^ "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
- ^ Nilsen, Jan Erik; Lundbo, Sten; Selland, Svein-Gunnar: Notodden in Store norske leksikon at snl.no. Accessed 18 October 2020 at https://snl.no/Notodden
- ^ Norske Kommunevåpen (1990). "Nye kommunevåbener i Norden". Retrieved 2009-01-17.
- ^ "Ny vennskapsby" (in Norwegian). Telen. Retrieved 2011-01-16.
- ^ "Vennskapsbyer" (in Norwegian). Notodden kommune. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2011-01-16.
- ^ IMDb Database retrieved 30 January 2021
External links
- Municipal fact sheet from Statistics Norway
Notodden travel guide from Wikivoyage- Notodden on Flickr
- 1908 in Notodden: Of course the workers must have houses, from Norsk Hydro
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