OppegÃ¥rd

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OppegÃ¥rd

Oppegård is a village and 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 Akershus

Akershus

is a Counties of Norway in Norway, bordering Hedmark, Oppland, Buskerud, Oslo and ?stfold; 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....
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 Follo

Follo

Follo is one of three Districts of Norway in the county of Akershus, Norway. It is located between Oslo and ?stfold and includes the southwestern part of the county's area east of Oslo, namely the municipalities Frogn, Oppeg?rd, Ski, Norway, Vestby, ?s, Nesodden, and Enebakk ....
. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Kolbotn

Kolbotn

Kolbotn is the centre of Oppeg?rd, Norway. The population is about 6000.Kolbotn has several elementary schools, 3 middle schools and a high school....
. The new municipality of Oppegård was separated from the municipality of Nesodden

Nesodden

Nesodden is a Municipalities of Norway in Akershus Counties of Norway, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway of Follo. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Nesoddtangen....
on 1 July 1915. The municipality has an area of , hence it is the smallest municipality in Akershus by area.

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 Oppegård 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....
: Uppigardr), since the first church was built here.

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Oppegård is a village and 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 Akershus

Akershus

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

Follo

Kolbotn

Nesodden

General information

Name

The municipality (originally the parish

Parish

Old Norse

Farm

A farm is an area of land, including various structures, devoted primarily to the practice of producing and managing food , fibers and, increasingly, fuel....
". (The farm is probably a part of an older a bigger farm.)

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. They were granted on 6 August 1976. The arms show 17 gold triangles on a black background. The 17 triangle

Triangle

A triangle is one of the basic shapes of geometry: a polygon with three corners or wikt:vertex and three sides or edges which are line segments....
s symbolize 17 tree

TREE

TREE was a Boston hardcore punk band formed in the summer of 1990. They were active in the Boston music scene until disbanding in 2002....
s, which again symbolize the 17 old farms in the municipality. Most of the farms are lying in an area called Svartskog ('black 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....
'), so the arms are canting arms

Canting arms

Canting arms is a technique used in European heraldry whereby the name of the individual or community represented in a coat of arms is "translated" into a visual pun or rebus....
.

History

Oppegård has been populated since the end of the last ice age

Ice age

The general term "ice age" or, more precisely, "glacial age" denotes a geological period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in an expansion of continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers....
. Archeological remains of hunter-gatherer

Hunter-gatherer

A hunter-gatherer society is one whose primary List of subsistence techniques involves the direct procurement of edible plants and animals from the wild, foraging and hunting without significant recourse to the domestication of either....
societies dating back to 5000–6000 BCE

Common Era

Common Era, abbreviated as CE, is a designation for the calendar system most commonly used in the Western world, and also internationally, for numbering the year part of the calendar date....
have been found, as well as the remains of agriculatural settlements from 1000–2000 BCE. The main southern roads connecting Oslo

Oslo

is the Capital and largest List of cities in Norway in Norway.Metropolitan Oslo or the Greater Oslo Region makes up the third largest urban area in Scandinavia after Metropolitan Stockholm and Metropolitan Copenhagen....
to 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....
and Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
have passed through Oppegård since the Iron Age

Iron Age

In archaeology, the Iron Age was the stage in the development of any people in which tools and weapons whose main ingredient was iron were prominent....
.

The present-day municipality was created from the eastern part of the municipality of Nesodden

Nesodden

Nesodden is a Municipalities of Norway in Akershus Counties of Norway, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway of Follo. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Nesoddtangen....
in 1915. At the time, the population of Oppegård was only 600. The 1960s and 1970s saw a population boom, as larger housing projects established the Oppegård villages as suburbs of Oslo. The commercial centres along the main railroad

Rail transport

Rail transport is the conveyance of passengers and goods by means of wheeled vehicles running along railways . Rail transport is part of the logistics chain, which facilitates international trade and economic growth....
axis is examples of the functionalist

Functionalism (architecture)

Functionalism, in architecture, is the principle that architects should design a building based on the purpose of that building. This statement is less self-evident than it first appears, and is a matter of confusion and controversy within the profession, particularly in regard to modern architecture....
architecture

Architecture

The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
characteristic of that period of urbanization

Urbanization

Urbanization is the physical growth of rural or natural land into urban areas as a result of population im-migration to an existing urban area....
in Scandinavia

Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a historical and geographical subregion in northern Europe that includes the Scandinavian Peninsula. It consists of the kingdoms of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark; some authorities also include Finland and some might even include Iceland....
.

Arctic explorer Roald Amundsen

Roald Amundsen

Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen , was a Norwegian people Exploration of polar regions. He led the first Antarctica expedition to reach the South Pole between 1910 and 1912....
lived in Svartskog and his house is presently a museum

Museum

A museum is a "permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment, for the purposes of education, study, and entertainment", as defined by the International Coun...
, administered by the municipality. Svartskog is also home to a medieval stone church, and is likely the oldest settlement in Oppegård.

Politics

Since 1968, coinciding with the population boom, the Conservative Party of Norway

Conservative Party of Norway

The Conservative Party is a Norway political party. Founded in 1884, it is Norway's second oldest party. The current leader is Erna Solberg....
(Høyre) has held either a majority

Majority

A majority, also known as a simple majority in the United States of America, is a subset of a group that is more than half of the entire group....
or plurality of representatives in the municipal council

Municipal council (Norway)

Municipal council is the highest governing body of the municipality in Norway. The municipal council sets the scope of municipal activity, takes major decisions, and delegates responsibility....
. Several leading politicians for Høyre began their political careers as mayors of Oppegård, including Rolf Presthus

Rolf Presthus

Rolf Presthus was a Norway politician, who was chairman of the Conservative Party of Norway 1986-1988.Presthus was also Minister of Finance 1981-1986, and Minister of Defence in 1986....
(mayor from 1968–1970, Conservative Party Leader and Minister of Finance

Minister of Finance (Norway)

1st Ministry ...
) and Jan Petersen

Jan Petersen

Jan Petersen is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party of Norway.He was elected to the Storting from Akershus in 1981, and was re-elected on six occasions....
(mayor from 1975-1981, Conservative Party Leader and Minister of Foreign Affairs). Oppegård is demographically an urban middle class area, demographically similar to Bærum

Bærum

is a Municipalities of Norway in Akershus Counties of Norway, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the List of cities in Norway of Sandvika....
and Asker

Asker

Asker is a Municipalities of Norway in Akershus Counties of Norway, Norway. It is part of the Viken Districts of Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Asker....
and a traditional stronghold for Høyre.

Former Prime Minister and leader of the Christian Democratic Party Kjell Magne Bondevik

Kjell Magne Bondevik

[IPA: ??l: m??n? bun:?vi:k] is a Norway Lutheranism Religious minister and Politics of Norway. He served as Prime Minister of Norway from 1997 to 2000, and from 2001 to 2005, making him Norway's longest serving non-Socialist Prime Minister since World War II....
currently lives in Oppegård.

Geography

Oppegård is located at the eastern coast of Bunnefjorden

Bunnefjorden

Bunnefjorden is the part of Oslofjorden placed east of Nesodden. North east part is in Oslo and the south part in ?s, Frogn and the middle part is in Nesodden and Oppeg?rd....
(originally called "Foli", like the Årungen lake to the south), which is an arm of Oslofjord

Oslofjord

The Oslofjord is a bay in the south-east of Norway, stretching from an imaginary line between the Torbj?rnskj?r fyrstasjon and F?rder lighthouses and down to Langesund in the south to Oslo in the north....
. It includes the villages Oppegård, Svartskog, and Kolbotn. The landscape is dominated by a vast part of the north-south oriented lake Gjersjøen, which roughly divides the district into western and eastern sections. The lake Kolbotnvannet is located here as well. The undeveloped areas are largely covered by forest.

Oppegård is a largely residential suburb

Suburb

Suburbs are commonly defined as the residential areas which surround the central area of the urban area of a town or city. In the United States, suburbs have a prevalence of usually detached single-family homes.....
of Oslo, but also a business hub. It hosts the Norwegian headquarters of several larger corporations (including Kodak

Eastman Kodak

Eastman Kodak Company is a multinational corporation public company which produces imaging and photography materials and equipment. Long known for its wide range of photographic film products, Kodak is re-focusing on two major markets: digital photography and digital printing....
and IBM

IBM

International Business Machines Corporation, abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue" , is a multinational corporation computer technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, New York, United States....
) within its borders. Tax revenue

Tax revenue

Tax revenue is the income that is gained by governments because of taxation of the people.Just as there are different types of tax, the form in which tax revenue is collected also differs; furthermore, the agency that collects the tax may not be part of central government, but may be an alternative third-party licenced to collect tax which...
s from large corporations made Oppegård one of Norway's richest municipalities in the 1980s and 1990s. These revenues, and the wealth they brought, were lost in the 2000s when corporation

Corporation

A corporation is a legal entity separate from the persons that form it. It is a legal entity owned by individual stockholders. In British tradition it is the term designating a body corporate, where it can be either a corporation sole or a corporation aggregate ....
s were made to pay taxes directly to the national government, rather than the local government.

Commuter trains connect Oppegård to Oslo, and makes the neighbourhoods close to the train stations (Rosenholm, Kolbotn, Solbråtan, Myrvoll, Greverud, and Oppegård) popular residential areas.

Sister cities

The following cities are twinned

Town twinning

Town twinning, also known as sister cities, is a concept whereby towns or city in geographically and politically distinct areas are paired, with the goal of fostering human contact and cultural links between their inhabitants....
with Oppegård: - Hvidovre, Region Hovedstaden

Region Hovedstaden

Region Hovedstaden is an administrative Regions of Denmark of Denmark established on January 1, 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish Municipal Reform, which replaced the traditional counties of Denmark with five larger regions....
, Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
- Širvintos

Širvintos

?irvintos is a List of cities in Lithuania in Vilnius County in the eastern part of Lithuania. It is the administrative center of the ?irvintos district municipality....
, Vilnius County

Vilnius County

Vilnius County is the largest of the 10 counties of Lithuania of Lithuania, located in the east of the country around the city Vilnius....
, Lithuania

Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest....
- Sollentuna

Sollentuna Municipality

Sollentuna Municipality is a municipalities of Sweden in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. Its seat is located in Sollentuna.Sollentuna borders the municipalities of Solna Municipality, Sundbyberg Municipality, Stockholm Municipality, J?rf?lla Municipality, Upplands V?sby Municipality, T?by Municipality and Danderyd Municipality i...
, Stockholm County

Stockholm County

Stockholm County is a Counties of Sweden or l?n on the Baltic sea coast of Sweden. It borders the counties of Uppsala County and S?dermanland County....
, Sweden

Sweden

Tuusula

Tuusula , is a municipalities of Finland of Finland. It belongs to the Helsinki sub-region of the Uusimaa region. The municipality has a population of ...
, Etelä-Suomi

Southern Finland

The Province of Southern Finland is a Provinces of Finland of Finland. It borders the provinces of Western Finland and Eastern Finland. It also borders the Gulf of Finland and Russia....
, Finland

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....

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....