Editing Elverum (section)

===Regional town===
[[File:Elverum januar 2006 025.jpg|thumb|left|View of the west side of the river Glomma from Gammelbrua]]
In the [[Denmark-Norway|Danish-Norwegian]] period, Elverum was the location for a [[bailiff]] ({{Lang|no|[[fogd]]}}), a [[judge]] ({{Lang|no|sorenskriver}}), a church [[Provost (religion)|provost]] ({{Lang|no|prost}}), and numerous military officers.

It became important as a [[market town]] as well. In 1570 [[Hamar Cathedral]] in [[Hamar]] was burned and [[Hamarhus]] castle was destroyed by the Swedish armies during the Seven Years' War with Sweden. Hamar lost its city status, leaving no {{Lang|no|[[kjøpstad]]}}, or official market city, between [[Oslo|Christiania]] and [[Trondheim]]. Eastern Norway needed an organized market for trading goods. The Grundset market ({{Lang|no|Grundsetmart'n}}) in Elverum municipality grew to meet the need. It is recorded as existing in the 17th century, and in 1765 the owner of Gaarder obtained special market privileges from the king, to take place six miles north of the population center of Elverum on his estate. By 1767, it was described as Norway's largest and most famous market. In the first week of March, for almost 300 years, the folks of the district met to trade and to celebrate. People from [[Gudbrandsdal]], [[Oslo]], [[Trøndelag]], and Sweden also regularly came to ''{{Lang|no|Grundsetmart'n}}''. The Grundset market was finally abandoned in 1901, when pressures of the railroad and other markets made it superfluous.

The railway connecting Oslo and [[Trondheim]] passed through Elverum in 1877.