Grue, Norway

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Grue is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Solør. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Kirkenær. Other villages in the municipality include Bergesida, Grinder, Namnå, Risberget, Rotberget, Skasenden, and Svullrya.

The Template:Convert municipality is the 136th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Grue is the 189th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 4,572. The municipality's population density is Template:Convert and its population has decreased by 8.5% over the previous 10-year period.<ref name="ssb pop">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="ssb area">Template:Cite web</ref>

Economy: One private company (a lamp factory) has 51 employees; as of June 2024, there is less than a year until the production gets moved to an EU country.<ref>https://www.nrk.no/innlandet/hjornesteinsbedriften-bak-den-ikoniske-luxo-l-1-lampa-flagger-ut-fra-grue-til-polen-1.16934732. NRK.no. Retrieved 2024-06-22</ref>

General information

The parish of Grue was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt law). In 1867, the southern district of Grue (population: 3,946) was separated to become the new municipality of Brandval. This left Grue municipality with 6,464 residents. In 1941, a small area of Grue (population: 68) was transferred to the neighboring municipality of Brandval. During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1969, the Rotberget farm area (population: 23) was transferred from Åsnes Municipality to Grue. On 1 January 1974, an unpopulated part of the Lystad area was transferred from Grue to the neighboring municipality of Kongsvinger.<ref name="Dag">Template:Cite book</ref>

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Grue farm (Template:Langx or Template:Lang) since the first Grue Church was built there. The name is identical with the word Template:Lang or Template:Lang which means "depression" or "hollow".<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was granted on 30 October 1992. The official blazon is "Per bend sinister rayonny of wolf-teeth argent and vert" (Template:Langx). This means the arms have are divided with a diagonal line that is rayonny, meaning it looks like curved wolf teeth rather than a straight line. The field (background) below the line has a tincture of Vert (green). Above the line, the field has a tincture of argent which means it is commonly colored white, but if it is made out of metal, then silver is used. The flame-like line represents the clearance of farms in the woods by the use of fire and is also a remembrance of the gruesome church fire of 1822. The colors symbolize the forests and the Glomma river. The arms were designed by Harald Hallstensen. The municipal flag has the same design as the coat of arms.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Churches

The Church of Norway has two parishes (Template:Lang) within the municipality of Grue. It is part of the Solør, Vinger og Odal prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Hamar.

**Churches in Grue**
Parish (Template:Lang)	Church name	Location of the church	Year built
Grue	Grue Church	Kirkenær	1825
Grue Finnskog	Grue Finnskog Church	Svullrya	1886

Geography

Number of minorities (1st and 2nd generation) in Grue by country of origin in 2017<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Ancestry	Number
Template:Flagicon Sweden	50
Template:Flagicon Poland	32
Template:Flagicon Lithuania	29
Template:Flagicon Iraq	28
Template:Flagicon Croatia	28
Template:Flagicon Eritrea	25
Template:Flagicon Bosnia-Herzegovina	23

Grue is situated around the Glomma river and the geography is dominated largely by forests and some agricultural areas around Glomma. Grue is located in the southeast part of Innlandet county. It is bordered on the south by the municipality of Kongsvinger, on the north by the municipality of Åsnes, and on the west by Nord-Odal. To the east, it borders Sweden.

Grue was the early center for the Finnish migration which today populates the Finnskogen, a belt about Template:Convert wide and running continuously along the frontier in the districts of Brandval, Grue, Hof, Åsnes, and Våler. Their first population center in Norway was located around the lake of Røgden.

The rivers Løvhaugsåa and Rotna both run through the area. The lakes Hukusjøen, Skasen, Gardsjøen.

Government

Grue Municipality is responsible for primary education (through 10th grade), outpatient health services, senior citizen services, welfare and other social services, zoning, economic development, and municipal roads and utilities. The municipality is governed by a municipal council of directly elected representatives. The mayor is indirectly elected by a vote of the municipal council.<ref name="ks">Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref> The municipality is under the jurisdiction of the Romerike og Glåmdal District Court and the Eidsivating Court of Appeal.

Municipal council

Mayors

The mayors (Template:Langx) of Grue since 1838 when the municipality was established:<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Template:Div col

1838-1845: Ole Arntzen Lützow
1846-1847: Jørgen Cappelen Omsted
1848-1857: Nicolai Astrup
1858-1859: Gunder Gundersen
1860-1863: Jacob Rolsdorph Andersen
1864-1879: Ole Bredesen Opset
1880-1883: Arne A. Omsted
1883-1887: Ole Bredesen Opset
1888-1898: Arne A. Omsted
1899-1907: Amund Bredesen Opset
1908-1913: Wilhelm Omsted
1914-1919: Amund Bredesen Opset
1920-1925: Magnus Vangerud
1926-1928: Sigurd Woll
1929-1931: Ole H. Sæther
1932-1933: Arve Myrvang
1933-1934: Arne Tveter
1935-1935: Ole Kamphaug
1936-1940: Eivind Grimstad
1940-1945: Vacant due to WWII
1945-1945: Martin Møllerud
1946-1955: Magnus Vangerud
1956-1963: Reidar Mellem
1964-1964: Martin Råberget
1964-1978: Thor Henriksen
1979-1985: Torbjøn Øveråsen
1985-1999: Ragnar Nyman
1999-2007: Niels Ferdinand Rolsdorph
2007-2011: Herdis Bragelien
2011-2015: Niels Ferdinand Rolsdorph
2015-2019: Wenche Huser Sund
2019–present: Rune Grenberg (Ap)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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Notable people

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Åsta Holth, 1945

Andreas Aagaard Kiønig (1771–1856), a lawyer and representative at the Norwegian Constitutional Assembly
Andreas Arntzen (1777–1837), a politician, police chief, Supreme Court judge, & timber merchant
Mor Sæther (1793–1851), a Norwegian "klok kone" ("cunning woman"), i.e. a herbalist
Ole Peter Riis Høegh (1806–1852), a trained civilian architect and Bergen's first town surveyor
Wilhelm Maribo Schøyen (1844–1918), Norway's first government entomologist
Olav Strøm (1866-1963), a pioneer trade unionist
Kristian Prestrud (1881–1927), a naval officer and member of Amundsen's South Pole expedition
Hagbart Haakonsen (1895-1984), a cross-country skier who competed at the 1928 Winter Olympics
Åsta Holth (1904–1999), a novelist, poet and short story writer
Kåre Jonsborg (1912–1977), a painter and textile artist
Sinikka Langeland (born 1961), a traditional folk singer and kantele player
Tom Harald Hagen (born 1978), a football UEFA referee

Gallery

Grue kirke

Grue kirke
River Rottnan in Svullrya

River Rottnan in Svullrya
Opaker Grue

Opaker Grue
Løvhaugsåa in Hedmark

Løvhaugsåa in Hedmark

References

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External links

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