Heggedal is a part of the
AskerAsker is a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the Viken traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Asker. The municipality is a suburb of Oslo, the national capital...
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in
Akershusis a county in Norway, bordering Hedmark, Oppland, Buskerud, Oslo and Østfold; it has also a short border with Sweden . Akershus is the second largest county by population after Oslo, with more than half a million inhabitants. The county is named after Akershus Fortress...
countyA county is a land area of local government within a country. A county may have cities and towns within its area. Originally, in continental Europe, a county was the land under the jurisdiction of a count .Counts are called earls in post-Celtic Britain, Ireland and France—the term is from Old...
,
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. For statistical purposes, it's usually treated as part of the Oslo urban area.
http://www.ssb.no/emner/02/01/10/beftett/tab-2005-06-03-01.html In 2000, its population was 3,301
http://www.ssb.no/english/subjects/02/01/10/beftett_en/arkiv/tab-2001-12-06-01-en.html, and the election district named Heggedal had 2,329 registered voters in the
2005 electionParliamentary elections were held in Norway on 12 September 2005. More than 3.4 million Norwegians were eligible for vote for the Storting, the parliament of Norway. The new Storting has 169 members, an increase of four over the 2001 election....
.
Heggedal is a part of the
AskerAsker is a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the Viken traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Asker. The municipality is a suburb of Oslo, the national capital...
municipalityA municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly denotes a city, town, or village, or a small grouping of them. A municipality is typically governed by a mayor and a city council or municipal council.The notion of municipality...
in
Akershusis a county in Norway, bordering Hedmark, Oppland, Buskerud, Oslo and Østfold; it has also a short border with Sweden . Akershus is the second largest county by population after Oslo, with more than half a million inhabitants. The county is named after Akershus Fortress...
countyA county is a land area of local government within a country. A county may have cities and towns within its area. Originally, in continental Europe, a county was the land under the jurisdiction of a count .Counts are called earls in post-Celtic Britain, Ireland and France—the term is from Old...
,
NorwayNorway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a country in Northern Europe occupying the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, as well as Jan Mayen and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard under the Spitsbergen Treaty...
. For statistical purposes, it's usually treated as part of the Oslo urban area.
http://www.ssb.no/emner/02/01/10/beftett/tab-2005-06-03-01.html In 2000, its population was 3,301
http://www.ssb.no/english/subjects/02/01/10/beftett_en/arkiv/tab-2001-12-06-01-en.html, and the election district named Heggedal had 2,329 registered voters in the
2005 electionParliamentary elections were held in Norway on 12 September 2005. More than 3.4 million Norwegians were eligible for vote for the Storting, the parliament of Norway. The new Storting has 169 members, an increase of four over the 2001 election....
. It is mainly a residential area, though the area has a railway station, a church, a
libraryA library is a collection of sources, resources, and services, and the structure in which it is housed; it is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual. In the more traditional sense, a library is a collection of books. It can mean the collection,...
, and a primary school.
Geography
Heggedal is situated about 10 km south of the main settlement of Asker and the main highway between
Oslois the capital and largest city in Norway. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the town was largely destroyed by a fire in 1624. The Danish–Norwegian king Christian IV rebuilt the city as Christiania . Oslo, then an alternative name, became official again in 1925...
and
Drammenis a city and municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Drammen.The municipality of Drammen was established on 1 January 1838...
, the E18. Heggedal lies about 1 km from the western coast of the Oslo Fjord, but still lies next to water, as there is a
lakeA lake is a terrain feature , a body of liquid on the surface of a world that is localized to the bottom of basin and moves slowly if it moves at all. Another definition is, a body of fresh or salt water of considerable size that is surrounded by land...
about 500 m by 150 m long called Gjellumvannet (lit.
Gjellum water). The river
SkitheggaSkithegga is a small river running out in the lake Gjellum. It starts further up in Kjekstadmarka at the lake Heggsjøen and runs through Åsåker , Røyken and Hallenskog. The river has normally limited water, but during springtime it floods and put several farm areas under water....
runs down from the nearby hill and into the water, and inland to the west lies Brennåsen, a hill 361 metres above sea level. Heggedal itself lies around 100 metres above sea level, with the railway station quoted at a height of 99.2 metres.
Politics
Although the municipality of Asker is traditionally a conservative stronghold, with Conservatives having a strong position in the local government, Labour got the most votes in both the
2005Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 12 September 2005. More than 3.4 million Norwegians were eligible for vote for the Storting, the parliament of Norway. The new Storting has 169 members, an increase of four over the 2001 election....
and the
2001A general election to the Storting, the parliament of Norway, was held on September 10, 2001. The Labour Party won a plurality of votes and seats, closely followed by the Conservative Party...
elections. The Progress Party was the second largest party in 2005, recording 22.6% of the votes, while the Conservatives got 19.2%. No other parties had anywhere above 8% in the recent election, though the Socialist Left Party was the fourth-largest party in 2001 with 14.1%. Their decline in 2005 reflected a nation-wide trend. Both in 2001 and 2005, the result of the nation and the results in Heggedal were quite similar, although the Conservatives were stronger in Heggedal and the Christian People's Party and the Centre Party were weaker.
Infrastructure
Heggedal has a
post officeA post office is a facility authorised by a postal system for the posting, receipt, sorting, handling, transmission or delivery of mail. Post offices offer mail-related services such as post office boxes, postage and packaging supplies...
at the local
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, Kiwi, and its
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is 1389. There is also a local
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, which was considered shut down in 2002, but a demonstration was staged to prevent this, to which 500 people attended - on the same day that the local newspaper, Asker og Bærums Budstikke, printed that a solution had been found.
The local school, Heggedal barneskole, was built in 1906, and expanded several times, most recently in 1960. As of autumn 2005, it has 362 pupils aged from 6 to 13 (first to seventh grade), and does not split the pupils into classes which they keep for the whole 7-year period in the school - instead, they are in working groups which may change from year to year or even more frequently.
Riksvei (
state road) 167 which runs south-west to
RøykenRøyken is a village and municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Midtbygda. The parish of Røken was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 ....
and
SpikkestadSpikkestad is a population center in the Røyken municipality in Norway. It is located in the northern part of the Hurum Peninsula, closer to the Drammen Fjord than the Oslo Fjord....
runs through the area, and there are minor roads to the nearby coastal settlements of
VollenVollen is a part of the Asker municipality in Akershus county, Norway. For statistical purposes, it's usually treated as part of the Oslo urban area. It is mainly a residential area, though the area has a café, a restaurant, several art galleries and a primary school and secondary...
, Blakstad and
SlemmestadSlemmestad is a village in Røyken municipality, Norway.Slemmestad is also the home town of the Norway international woman footballer, Melissa Wiik.The late famous sports jounalist Bjørge Lillelien was also born here....
. From the railway station on the Spikkestadbanen, the train runs from Spikkestad some kilometres to the south-west to Oslo in the north-east, and trains also run to
Mossis a coastal town and a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Moss. The city of Moss was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838...
in
Østfoldis a county in southeastern Norway, bordering Akershus and southwestern Sweden , while Buskerud and Vestfold is on the other side of the bay. The county administration is in Sarpsborg, and Fredrikstad is the largest city....
county on the east coast of the Oslo Fjord, and
Skiis a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Follo. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Ski. Ski was separated from the municipality of Kråkstad on 1 July 1931 to form a separate municipality...
south-east of Oslo. There are also bus services to the centre of Asker.
Sports
Heggedal IL, the local sports club, was founded in 1914. It currently has a
footballAssociation football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players using a spherical ball...
division with junior teams up to the age of 19 - the men's football team used to have a cooperation with the nearby
VollenVollen is a part of the Asker municipality in Akershus county, Norway. For statistical purposes, it's usually treated as part of the Oslo urban area. It is mainly a residential area, though the area has a café, a restaurant, several art galleries and a primary school and secondary...
UL, and played on the sixth level of the pyramid, but this stopped after the 2003 season. It also has
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teams for men and women (the women's team plays on the third level of the Norwegian pyramid, the men's team on the lowest level - the fourth), a cross country skiing group and a "sport school" programme for the youngest children. In the 1960s,
nordic combinedThe Nordic combined is a winter sport in which athletes compete in both cross-country skiing and ski jumping.- History :While Norwegian soldiers are known to have been competing in nordic skiing since the 18th century, the first major competition in Nordic combined was held in 1892 in Oslo at the...
world champion
Arne LarsenArne Kjell Larsen is a retired Norwegian Nordic combined skier who competed internationally in the early 1960s....
represented Heggedal IL. The local golf club, Heggedal Golfklubb, is run by the Vinnulstad Golf company, and currently has a driving range, although the municipality has regulated the area for a 9-hole course.
In Heggedal, you can also find a band called Heggedal og Blakstad skolekorps (Heggedal and Blakstad school band). You can see the local band on 17th of May, Lions kulturdager and in the context of other events.