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Grue is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Solør. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Kirkenær. Other villages in the municipality include Bergesida, Grinder, Namnå, Risberget, Rotberget, Skasenden, and Svullrya.

Grue kommune
Municipality
View of the landscape in eastern Grue
Flag Coat of arms Innlandet within Norway
Grue within Innlandet
Coordinates: 60°27′23″N 12°03′30″E
Country	Norway
County	Innlandet
District	Solør
Established	1 January 1838
• Created as	Formannskapsdistrikt
Administrative centre	Kirkenær
Government
• Mayor (2019)	Rune Grenberg[1] (Ap)
Area
• Total	837.18 km2 (323.24 sq mi)
• Land	777.54 km2 (300.21 sq mi)
• Water	59.64 km2 (23.03 sq mi)  7.1%
• Rank	#136 in Norway
Population  (2022)
• Total	4,548
• Rank	#189 in Norway
• Density	5.8/km2 (15/sq mi)
• Change (10 years)	−9.1%
Demonym	Grusokning[2]
Official language [3]
• Norwegian form	Bokmål
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	NO-3417
Website	Official website
Data from Statistics Norway

The 837-square-kilometre (323 sq mi) municipality is the 136th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Grue is the 189th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 4,548. The municipality's population density is 5.8 inhabitants per square kilometre (15/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 9.1% over the previous 10-year period.[4][5]

General information

The parish of Grue was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt law). In 1867, the southern district of Grue (population: 3,946) was separated to become the new municipality of Brandval. This left Grue municipality with 6,464 residents. In 1941, a small area of Grue (population: 68) was transferred to the neighboring municipality of Brandval. During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1969, the Rotberget farm area (population: 23) was transferred from Åsnes Municipality to Grue. On 1 January 1974, an unpopulated part of the Lystad area was transferred from Grue to the neighboring municipality of Kongsvinger.[6]

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Grue farm (Old Norse: Grǫf or Grǫfa), since the first Grue Church was built there. The name is identical with the word grǫf(a) which means "depression" or "hollow".[7]

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was granted on 30 October 1992. The arms were designed by Harald Hallstensen. The arms are described as "left tilted dividing by silver and green, the dividing line is a curved wolf tooth pattern. The flame-like line represents the clearance of farms in the woods by the use of fire and is also a remembrance of the gruesome church fire of 1822. The colors symbolize the forests and the Glomma river.[8][9]

Churches

The Church of Norway has two parishes (sokn) within the municipality of Grue. It is part of the Solør, Vinger og Odal prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Hamar.

Churches in Grue

Parish (sokn)	Church name	Location of the church	Year built
Grue	Grue Church	Kirkenær	1825
Grue Finnskog	Grue Finnskog Church	Svullrya	1886

Geography

Number of minorities (1st and 2nd generation) in Grue by country of origin in 2017[10]

Ancestry	Number
Sweden	50
Poland	32
Lithuania	29
Iraq	28
Croatia	28
Eritrea	25
Bosnia-Herzegovina	23

Grue is situated around the Glomma river and the geography is dominated largely by forests and some agricultural areas around Glomma. Grue is located in the southeast part of Innlandet county. It is bordered on the south by the municipality of Kongsvinger, on the north by the municipality of Åsnes, and on the west by Nord-Odal. To the east, it borders Sweden.

Grue was the early center for the Finnish migration which today populates the Finnskogen, a belt about 32 kilometres (20 mi) wide and running continuously along the frontier in the districts of Brandval, Grue, Hof, Åsnes, and Våler. Their first population center in Norway was located around the lake of Røgden.

The rivers Løvhaugsåa and Rotna both run through the area. The lakes Hukusjøen, Skasen, Gardsjøen.

Government

All municipalities in Norway, including Grue, are responsible for primary education (through 10th grade), outpatient health services, senior citizen services, unemployment and other social services, zoning, economic development, and municipal roads. The municipality is governed by a municipal council of elected representatives, which in turn elects a mayor.[11] The municipality falls under the Romerike og Glåmdal District Court and the Eidsivating Court of Appeal.

Municipal council

The municipal council (Kommunestyre) of Grue is made up of 19 representatives that are elected to four year terms. The party breakdown of the council is as follows:

Mayors

The mayors of Grue since 1838 when the municipality was established:[31]

Notable people

• Andreas Aagaard Kiønig (1771–1856), lawyer, representative at the Norwegian Constitutional Assembly
• Andreas Arntzen (1777–1837), politician, police chief, Supreme Court judge & timber merchant
• Mor Sæther (1793–1851), Norwegian "klok kone" ("cunning woman"), i.e. a herbalist
• Ole Peter Riis Høegh (1806–1852), trained civilian architect, Bergen's first town surveyor
• Wilhelm Maribo Schøyen (1844–1918), Norway's first government entomologist
• Olav Strøm (1866-1963), pioneer trade unionist
• Kristian Prestrud (1881–1927), naval officer, member of Amundsen's South Pole expedition
• Hagbart Haakonsen (1895-1984), cross-country skier, competed at the 1928 Winter Olympics
• Åsta Holth (1904–1999), novelist, poet and short story writer
• Kåre Jonsborg (1912–1977), painter and textile artist
• Sinikka Langeland (born 1961), traditional folk singer and kantele player
• Tom Harald Hagen (born 1978), football UEFA referee

Gallery

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  Grue kirke
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  River Rottnan in Svullrya
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  Opaker Grue
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  Løvhaugsåa in Hedmark

References

External links

• Media related to Grue at Wikimedia Commons
• The dictionary definition of Grue at Wiktionary
• Municipal fact sheet from Statistics Norway (in Norwegian)

На других языках

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[de] Grue

Grue ist eine norwegische Kommune im Südosten des Fylke Innlandet mit 4548 Einwohnern (Stand 1. Januar 2022). Der Sitz der Verwaltung ist in Kirkenær. Die Kommune ist nach dem alten Hof Grue benannt. Der Name geht auf das altnordische Wort grof(a) zurück, das so viel wie „Grube, Senke“ bedeutet.

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- [en] Grue, Norway

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[ru] Груэ (Норвегия)

Груэ (норв. Grue) — коммуна в губернии Хедмарк в Норвегии. Административный центр коммуны — город Хиркенер. Официальный язык коммуны — букмол. Население коммуны на 2007 год составляло 5078 чел. Площадь коммуны Груэ — 837,18 км², код-идентификатор — 0423.

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