Grue, Norway

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Grue, Norway

Grue is a municipality

Municipalities of Norway

||}Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called county , and 430 municipality . The capital city Oslo is considered both a county and a municipality....
in Hedmark

Hedmark

is a Counties of Norway in Norway, bordering S?r-Tr?ndelag, Oppland and Akershus. The county administration is in Hamar.Hedmark makes up the northeastern part of ?stlandet, the southeastern part of the country....
county

Counties of Norway

||-||}Norway is divided into 19 subnational, called county . The counties form the primary first-level subdivisions of Norway and are further divided into 431 Municipalities of Norway ....
, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
. It is part of the traditional region

Districts of Norway

Norway is divided into a number of districts. Many districts have deep historical roots, and only partially coincide with today's administrative units of counties of Norway and municipalities of Norway....
of Solør

Solør

Sol?r is a Norway Districts of Norway consisting of the Glomma valley between Elverum in the north and Kongsvinger in the south. It is part of the county of Hedmark, and includes the municipalities V?ler, Hedmark, ?snes and Grue, Norway and former municipality Brandval....
. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Kirkenær

Kirkenær

Kirken?r is the administrative centre of Grue, Norway municipality, Norway. Its population is 1,252....
(population: 1200).

The new municipality of Grue was established on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt

Formannskapsdistrikt

Formannskaps-distrikt was the name for a Norway local self-government districts put into force in 1838. This system of municipality was created in a bill approved by the Storting and signed into law by King Charles XIV John of Sweden on 14 January 1837....
). The area of Brandval

Brandval

Brandval is a former municipality in Hedmark county, Norway.Brandval was separated from Grue, Norway in 1867. It was merged with Kongsvinger January 1, 1964....
was separated from the municipality of Grue in 1867 to become a municipality of its own.

municipality (originally the parish

Parish

A parish is a local church; it is an administrative unit typically found in Roman Catholic, Anglican, United Methodist, and Presbyterianism churches....
) is named after the old Grue farm (Old Norse

Old Norse

Old Norse is a North Germanic languages that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300....
: Grof(a)), since the first church was built there.

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Grue is a municipality

Municipalities of Norway

||}Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called county , and 430 municipality . The capital city Oslo is considered both a county and a municipality....
in Hedmark

Hedmark

Counties of Norway

||-||}Norway is divided into 19 subnational, called county . The counties form the primary first-level subdivisions of Norway and are further divided into 431 Municipalities of Norway ....
, Norway

Norway

Districts of Norway

Solør

Kirkenær

Formannskapsdistrikt

Brandval

General information

Name

The municipality (originally the parish

Parish

Old Norse

Valley

In geology, a valley is a Depression with predominant extent in one direction. A very deep river valley may be called a canyon or gorge....
".

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms

Coat of arms

A coat of arms, more properly called an armorial achievement, armorial bearings or often just arms for short, in European tradition, is a design belonging to a particular person and used by them in a wide variety of ways....
is from modern times. It was granted on 30 October 1992 and designed by Egil Børresen. The arms are described as "left tilted dividing

Division of the field

Divisions of the field is a heraldry term referring to the pattern on a shield. The field of a escutcheon in heraldry can be divided into more than one tincture ....
by silver and green, the dividing line

Line (heraldry)

The lines of partition used to division of the field and variations of the field field s and charges in heraldry are by default straight, but may have many different shapes....
is a curved wolf tooth pattern. 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.

Geography

Grue is situated around the Glomma

Glomma

Glomma, also known as Gl?ma is the longest and largest river in Norway, 598 kilometers long. Its drainage basin covers fully 13% of Norway's area, all in the Southern part of Norway....
river and the geography is dominated largely by forest

Forest

File:Stara planina suma.jpgA forest is an area with a high density of trees. There are many definitions of a forest, based on various criteria....
s and some agricultural areas around Glomma. Grue is located in the southeast part of Hedmark county. It is bordered on the south by the municipality of Kongsvinger

Kongsvinger

is a List of cities in Norway and is a Municipalities of Norway in Hedmark Counties of Norway, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway of Gl?mdal....
, on the north by the municipality of Åsnes

Åsnes

?snes is a Municipalities of Norway in Hedmark Counties of Norway, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway of Sol?r. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Flisa, which is also the largest town in the municipality with around 2,100 people....
, and on the west by Nord-Odal

Nord-Odal

Nord-Odal is a Municipalities of Norway in Hedmark Counties of Norway, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway of Odal, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Sand, Hedmark....
. To the east it borders Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
.

Grue was the early center for the Finnish

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
migration which today populates the Finnskogen

Finnskogen

Finnskogen is an area of Norway situated in the county of Hedmark, named so because of immigration of Finnish people in the 17th century, the so-called Forest Finns....
, a belt about wide and running continuously along the frontier in the districts of Brandval, Grue, Hof

Hof, Hedmark

Hof is a former municipality in Hedmark county, Norway.The parish of Hof was established as a municipality January 1, 1838 . ?snes og V?ler was separated from Hof to constitute a separate municipality in 1849....
, Åsnes, and Våler

Våler, Hedmark

V?ler is a Municipalities of Norway in Hedmark Counties of Norway, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway of Sol?r. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of V?ler i Hedmark....
. Their first population center in Norway was located around the lake of Røgden.

External links

from Statistics Norway
Statistics Norway

Statistics Norway is the Norway statistics bureau. It was established in 1876.Relying on a staff of about 1000, Statistics Norway releases more than 800 Norwegian statistical publications every year on its web site....