Editing Stange (section)

==General information==
[[File:Stange kirke.jpg|thumbnail|200px|left|[[Stange Church]]]]
[[File:Romedal-kirke.jpg|thumbnail|200px|left|[[Romedal Church]]]]
[[File:View from Ramseth in Stange.jpg|200px|thumbnail|left|Just a few kilometers away, the craggy, forested side of Stange]]
The parish of Stange was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see [[formannskapsdistrikt]] law). During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the [[Schei Committee]]. On 1 January 1964, the neighboring municipalities of [[Romedal (municipality)|Romedal]] (population: 6,441) and Stange (population: 9,734) were merged to form a new, larger municipality of Stange with a population of 16,175 residents. On 13 July 1956, a small part of the municipality of [[Vang, Hedmark|Vang]] (population: 24) was transferred to Stange municipality.<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 ''Stange'' farm ({{langx|non|Stangir}}) since the first [[Stange Church]] was built there. The name is the [[plural]] form of {{wikt-lang|non|stǫng}} which means "bar", "pole", or "rod". (The farm is lying on a long hill, and this is probably the background for the name.)<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=154 and 158 |language=no |authorlink=Oluf Rygh}}</ref>

===Coat of arms===
The [[coat of arms]] was granted on 20 June 1986. The official [[blazon]] is ''"[[Vert (heraldry)|Vert]], a plough [[argent]]"'' ({{langx|no|I grønt en sølv ard}}). This means the arms have a green [[field (heraldry)|field]] (background) and the [[charge (heraldry)|charge]] is a medieval plough called an [[ard (plough)|ard]]. The charge has a [[tincture (heraldry)|tincture]] of [[argent]] which means it is commonly colored white, but if it is made out of metal, then silver is used. The design symbolizes this historic importance of [[agriculture]] in the area; originally the growing of [[cereal|grains]] and then later growing [[potato]]es. The arms were designed by Arne Løvstad. 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=stange |access-date=2023-04-27 |publisher=Heraldry of the World}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Stange, Hedmark (Norway) |url=https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/no-04-17.html |access-date=2023-04-27 |website=Flags of the World}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=1986-06-20 |title=Godkjenning av våpen og flagg |url=https://lovdata.no/dokument/LF/forskrift/1986-06-20-1368 |access-date=2023-04-27 |website=Lovdata.no |publisher=Norges kommunal- og arbeidsdepartementet |language=no}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Beskrivelse av Stanges kommunevåpen |url=http://www.stange.kommune.no/article452-339.html |access-date=2008-12-29 |publisher=Stange kommune |language=no}}</ref>

===Churches===
The [[Church of Norway]] has five parishes ({{lang|no|sokn}}) within the municipality of Stange. 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 Stange'''''
!Parish ({{lang|no|sokn}})!!Church name!!Location of the church!!Year built
|-
|rowspan="1"|Ottestad||[[Ottestad Church]]||[[Ottestad]]||1731
|-
|rowspan="1"|Romedal||[[Romedal Church]]||[[Romedal (village)|Romedal]]||1887
|-
|rowspan="1"|Stange||[[Stange Church]]||[[Stangebyen]]||c. 1250
|-
|rowspan="2"|Tangen||[[Strandlykkja Church]]||[[Strandlykkja]]||1915
|-
|[[Tangen Church]]||[[Tangen]]||1861
|-
|rowspan="1"|Vallset||[[Vallset Church]]||[[Vallset]]||1850
|}

===Media===
The newspaper ''[[Stangeavisa]]'' has been published in Stange since 2004.<ref name="snl">{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Stangeavisa |encyclopedia=[[Store norske leksikon]] |publisher=[[Kunnskapsforlaget]] |url=https://snl.no/Stangeavisa |date=2021-07-21 |editor-last=Smith-Meyer |editor-first=Trond |language=Norwegian |editor2-first=Øyvind |editor2-last=Breivik Pettersen |accessdate=2022-03-17}}</ref>