Editing Leksvik Municipality (section)

==History==
The first inhabitants are believed to have moved to Leksvik some 3,000 years ago. They left several pieces of [[cutting]] tools which are now placed in [[museum]]s. But Leksvik does not appear in [[recorded history]] before the [[Viking Age]] when the villages Leksvik and Hindrem became quite important in the local area. In both Leksvik and Hindrem there have been found great [[tomb]]s and [[ruins]] of buildings and [[longboat]]s. On Borgen, there is a hill between Hindrem and [[Seter, Norway|Seter]] that may have been a great Viking [[Fortification|fortress]], but this could also be tracks made by the [[glacier]]s during the last [[ice age]]. After the [[Black Death]] struck Norway in 1349, Leksvik fell into silence for some 300 years.

In more modern history, Leksvik and Hindrem are small and relatively isolated villages, north of [[Trondheim Fjord]]. Two churches stood here, [[Leksvik Church]] and a [[stave church]] in Hindrem, but this broke down in 1655 and was replaced by a modern wooden church. In the 19th century, the church of Hindrem was demolished, and the new [[Stranda Church (Leksvik)|Stranda Church]] was built in Vanvikan. Leksvik became well known for its [[goat]]s and had 5,000 of them at their peak number.

During [[World War II]], Leksvik was settled by [[Operation Weserübung|German troops]] with the main camp on the top of Våttåhaugen, a hill north of the village of Leksvik. But as a small and isolated village, nothing of great importance happened there during the war, and it was mostly peaceful although [[bomb]]s fell over [[Trondheim (city)|Trondheim]], on the south side of the [[fjord]]. After [[electric power]] first came to Leksvik, [[Bjørn Lyng]] founded the first industry in Vanvikan and Leksvik.  After the first road was finally finished in the early 1960s, [[Industrial sector|industry]] grew rapidly and replaced the goats.