Editing Løten (section)

==General information==
The parish of ''Løiten'' was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see [[formannskapsdistrikt]] law). The name was later changed to ''Løten''. The boundaries of the municipality have never changed.<ref name="Dag">{{Cite web |last=Jukvam |first=Dag |year=1999 |title=Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen |url=http://www.ssb.no/emner/00/90/rapp_9913/rapp_9913.pdf |publisher=[[Statistics Norway|Statistisk sentralbyrå]] |language=no |isbn=9788253746845}}</ref>

===Name===
The municipality (originally the [[prestegjeld|parish]]) is named after the old ''Løten'' farm ({{langx|non|Lautvin}}). The actual farm is probably the one which is now called ''Prestgarden'' (meaning "the [[vicar]]age"), where the first [[Løten Church]] was built. The first element is {{wikt-lang|non|laut}} which means "hollow depression". (There is a long depression between the ''Prestgarden'' and the old church.) The last element is {{wikt-lang|non|vin}} which means "[[meadow]]" or "[[pasture]]".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rygh |first=Oluf |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SZMOAAAAYAAJ |title=Norske gaardnavne: Hedmarkens amt |date=1900 |publisher=W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri |edition=3 |location=Kristiania, Norge |pages=103–104 |language=no |authorlink=Oluf Rygh}}</ref> Historically, the name of the municipality was spelled ''Leuten'' or ''Leuthen''. In 1838 the spelling was changed to ''Løiten''. On 3 November 1917, a [[royal decree|royal resolution]] changed the spelling of the name of the municipality to ''Løten''.<ref>{{Cite journal |year=1917 |title=Norsk Lovtidende. 2den Afdeling. 1917. Samling af Love, Resolutioner m.m |url=https://www.nb.no/items/URN:NBN:no-nb_digitidsskrift_2015102381014_001 |journal=[[Norsk Lovtidend]] |language=no |location=Kristiania, Norge |publisher=Grøndahl og Søns Boktrykkeri |pages=1057–1065}}</ref>

===Coat of arms===
The [[coat of arms]] was granted on 7 September 1984. The official [[blazon]] is ''"[[Gules]], a drinking horn [[Or (heraldry)|Or]]"'' ({{langx|no|I rødt et gull drikkehorn}}). This means the arms have a red [[field (heraldry)|field]] (background) and the [[charge (heraldry)|charge]] is a [[drinking horn]] from the [[Middle Ages]]. The charge has a [[tincture (heraldry)|tincture]] of [[Or (heraldry)|Or]] which means it is commonly colored yellow, but if it is made out of metal, then gold is used. It represents the historical importance of growing wheat and also the products of the modern [[Løiten Brænderi]] (Løten distillery), which was established in 1855. The arms were designed by Harald Trætteberg. The municipal flag has the same design as the coat of arms.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Civic heraldry of Norway - Norske Kommunevåpen |url=https://www.heraldry-wiki.com/heraldrywiki/index.php?title=Løten |access-date=2023-04-26 |publisher=Heraldry of the World}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Løten, Hedmark (Norway) |url=https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/no-04-15.html |access-date=2023-04-26 |website=Flags of the World}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=1984-11-23 |title=Godkjenning av våpen og flagg |url=https://lovdata.no/dokument/LF/forskrift/1984-09-07-1691 |access-date=2023-04-26 |website=Lovdata.no |publisher=Norges kommunal- og arbeidsdepartementet |language=no}}</ref>

===Churches===
The [[Church of Norway]] has one parish ({{lang|no|sokn}}) within the municipality of Løten. It is part of the [[Hamar domprosti]] (arch-[[deanery]]) in the [[Diocese of Hamar]].

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+ style="font-size:medium"|'''''Churches in Løten'''''
!Parish ({{lang|no|sokn}})!!Church name!!Location of the church!!Year built
|-
|rowspan="3"|Løten||[[Løten Church]]||[[Løten (village)|Løten]]||c. 1200
|-
|[[Oppegård Chapel]]||[[Oppegård, Løten|Oppegård]]||1886
|-
|[[Oset Chapel]]||[[Oset, Innlandet|Oset]]||1885
|}