Skiptvet

Skiptvet Municipality
Skiptvet kommune
Municipality
Skiptvet church
Skiptvet church
Flag of Skiptvet Municipality
Flag
Coat of arms of Skiptvet Municipality
Coat of arms
Østfold within Norway
Østfold within Norway
Skiptvet within Østfold
Skiptvet within Østfold
Coordinates: 59°28′50″N 11°8′40″E / 59.48056°N 11.14444°E / 59.48056; 11.14444
CountryNorway
CountyØstfold
Administrative centreMeieribyen
Government
 • Mayor (2007)Svein Olav Agnalt (Ap)
Area
 • Total
101 km2 (39 sq mi)
 • Land93 km2 (36 sq mi)
 • Rank#384 in Norway
Population
 (2004)
 • Total
3,336
 • Rank#251 in Norway
 • Density36/km2 (90/sq mi)
 • Change (10 years)
Increase +8.7%
DemonymSkjetving[1]
Official language
[2]
 • Norwegian formBokmål
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 codeNO-3116[3]
WebsiteOfficial website
Data from Statistics Norway

Skiptvet is a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Meieribyen. Skiptvet was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt).

General information

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Skiptvet farm (Old Norse: Skipþveit and/or Skygþveit) because the first church was built here. The meaning of the first element(s) is not known, and the last element is þveit 'clearing in the woods'. Prior to 1889, the name was written Skibtvet.

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 27 November 1981. The arms show a silver dragon on a red background. The dragon is derived from a local legend, in which a dragon went to sleep in the local churchyard every morning. In the evening the dragon went back to the forest, where it had its lair. A tarn near the church is still called Dragehullet meaning "the dragon's pit".[4]

See also: Coat of arms of Stjørdal
Number of minorities (1st and 2nd generation) in Skiptvet by country of origin in 2015[5]
Ancestry Number
 Poland 124
 Syria 32
 Lithuania 27
 Latvia 27
 Sweden 23

Notable people

References

  1. ^ "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
  2. ^ "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
  3. ^ Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (2023-01-26). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.
  4. ^ Norske Kommunevåpen (1990). "Nye kommunevåbener i Norden". Retrieved 2008-12-15.
  5. ^ "Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents, by immigration category, country background and percentages of the population". ssb.no. Retrieved 29 June 2015.