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is a city
List of cities in Norway

This is a list of cities in Norway.The Norwegian name for city is by. Cities were formerly categorized as kj?pstad or ladested , each with special city rights....
 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 Østfold
Østfold

is a Counties of Norway in southeastern Norway, bordering Akershus and southwestern Sweden , while Buskerud and Vestfold is on the other side of Viken....
 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....
. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Sarpsborg.

Together with Fredrikstad
Fredrikstad

is a List of cities in Norway and Municipalities of Norway in ?stfold Counties of Norway, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Fredrikstad....
, Sarpsborg forms the fifth largest urban area in Norway. As of 1 April 2006, according to 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....
 these two municipalities have a total population of 121,097 with 50,135 in Sarpsborg and 70,962 in Fredrikstad.

Borregaard
Borregaard

Borregaard is a Norway company, established in 1889 in the southeastern town of Sarpsborg in ?stfold county. Its main products were traditionally pulp and paper....
 Industries is and always has been the most important industry in the city.






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is a city
List of cities in Norway

This is a list of cities in Norway.The Norwegian name for city is by. Cities were formerly categorized as kj?pstad or ladested , each with special city rights....
 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 Østfold
Østfold

is a Counties of Norway in southeastern Norway, bordering Akershus and southwestern Sweden , while Buskerud and Vestfold is on the other side of Viken....
 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....
. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Sarpsborg.

Together with Fredrikstad
Fredrikstad

is a List of cities in Norway and Municipalities of Norway in ?stfold Counties of Norway, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Fredrikstad....
, Sarpsborg forms the fifth largest urban area in Norway. As of 1 April 2006, according to 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....
 these two municipalities have a total population of 121,097 with 50,135 in Sarpsborg and 70,962 in Fredrikstad.

Borregaard
Borregaard

Borregaard is a Norway company, established in 1889 in the southeastern town of Sarpsborg in ?stfold county. Its main products were traditionally pulp and paper....
 Industries is and always has been the most important industry in the city. The city is also the home of Borg Bryggerier
Borg Bryggerier

Borg Bryggerier is a Norway brewery, based in the city of Sarpsborg, ?stfold.It was founded in 1855 as Lande Gaard Bryggeri. In 1905, the Egen?ss-family acquired the brewery, it has been owned by the Egen?ss-family since then....
, part of the Hansa Borg Bryggerier
Hansa Borg Bryggerier

Hansa Borg Bryggerier is Norway's second largest brewery, founded in 1997, after a merger between Hansa Bryggeri and Borg Bryggerier .In 1999, Hansa Borg acquired Christianssands Bryggeri ....
, Norway's second largest brewery
Brewery

A brewery is a dedicated building for the making of beer, though beer can be made in the home, and has been for much of beer's history. A company which makes beer is called either a brewery or a brewing company....
-group.

In the 1960s, Sarpsborg was famous for its football (soccer) team, Sarpsborg FK, but is now more known for its ice hockey
Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team sport played on ice. It is a fast paced and physical sport. Ice hockey is most popular in areas that are sufficiently cold for natural reliable seasonal ice cover such as Canada, the northern United States, Scandinavia and Russia, though with the advent of indoor artificial ice r...
 team, Sparta Warriors
Sparta Warriors

Sparta Warriors is an ice hockey team in Sarpsborg, Norway playing in the GET-ligaen. They play their home games in the Sparta Amfi arena. The team colours are blue and white....
. In football, Sparta Sarpsborg has taken over the local throne, currently playing on the 2nd highest national level, known as the Adecco League.

General information


Name

In Norse
Norsemen

Norsemen is used to refer to the group of people as a whole who speak one of the North Germanic languages as their native language. The meaning of Norseman was "people from the North" and was applied primarily to Nordic people originating from southern and central Scandinavia....
 times the city was just called Borg (from borg which means "castle
Castle

A castle is a defensive structure seen as one of the main symbols of the Middle Ages. The term has a history of scholarly debate surrounding its exact meaning, but it is usually regarded as being distinct from the general terms fort or fortress in that it describes a residence of a monarch or noble and commands a specific defensive territor...
"). The background for this was the fortification
Fortification

Fortifications are military constructions and buildings designed for defense in warfare and military bases. Humans have constructed defensive works for many thousands of years, in a variety of increasingly complex designs....
 built by Olav Haraldsson (see History section). Later the genitive case
Genitive case

In grammar, the genitive case or possessive case is the grammatical case that marks a noun as modifying another noun. It often marks a noun as being the possessor of another noun but it can also indicate various relationships other than possession; certain verbs may take argument in the genitive case; and it may have adverbial uses ....
 of the name of the waterfall
Waterfall

A waterfall is usually a geology geologic formation resulting from water, often in the form of a stream, flowing over an erosion-resistant rock formation that forms a nickpoint, or sudden break in elevation....
 Sarpr (now Sarpsfossen) was added.

In Norse times Østfold county was called Borgarsýsla which means "the county (sýsla) of Borg" and the law district of southeast Norway was called Borgarþing meaning "the thing
Thing (assembly)

File:Germanische-ratsversammlung 1-1250x715.jpgA thing or ting was the governing assembly in Germanic tribes societies, made up of the free people of the community and presided by lawspeakers....
/court of Borg".

The old name has been revived in the diocese of Borg
Diocese of Borg

Borg is a diocese in the Church of Norway. It covers ?stfold and the eastern part of Akershus, and was created in 1968 by separation from the diocese of Oslo....
 (1968) and Borgarting Court of Appeal
Borgarting Court of Appeal

Borgarting Court of Appeal is the court of appeal located in Oslo, Norway. It serves the counties of Oslo, Buskerud, ?stfold and southern Akershus....
 (1995).

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 13 November 1991. It is based on a coat-of-arms from 1556. It shows a bear over a castle. The bear was introduced as early as sometime in the 13th century, by the earl
Earl

Earl was the Anglo-Saxons form and jarl the Scandinavian form of a title meaning "chieftain" and referring especially to chieftains set to rule a territory in a king's stead....
 of Sarpsborg (Comes de Saresburgh), Alv Erlingsson
Alv Erlingsson

Alv Erlingsson was a Norway baron and earl, born in Tornberg, Norderhov, Buskerud. It is said he was a favorite of the Queen, yet committed countless acts of piracy throughout his life including seizing and robbing Germany vessels, making an attack on Haakon V of Norway, the younger brother of the Norwegian king, and attacking Denmark....
. He used the bear to symbolize his strength. The castle symbolizes the fortress (borg) that once gave the city its original name.

History


The city was founded as Borg by the famous Viking King Olav Haraldsson
Olaf II of Norway

Olaf Haraldsson , was king of Norway from 1015–1028, . His mother was ?sta Gudbrandsdatter, and his father was Harald Grenske, great-grandchild of Harald I of Norway....
 (Saint Olav) in 1016. Unfortunately, most of the old city landed in the river 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....
, after a mudslide in 1702. The city was rebuilt at a safer location but was burned down to the ground by Swedish invaders in 1567 during the Northern Seven Years' War
Northern Seven Years' War

The Northern Seven Years' War was the war between Kingdom of Sweden and a coalition of Denmark-Norway, Free City of L?beck and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, fought between 1563 and 1570....
. Half the population evacuated down the river to what is today known as Fredrikstad, about downstream. Again Borg was rebuilt, and it was recreated as a city in 1839, and separated from Tune
Tune, Norway

Tune is a former municipality in ?stfold county, Norway.The parish of Tune was established as a municipality January 1, 1838 . The city of Sarpsborg was grounded and separated from Tune to constitute a separate administrative unit in 1839....
 as a municipality of its own. The rural municipalities of Tune, Skjeberg
Skjeberg

Skjeberg is a former municipality in ?stfold county, Norway. The administrative centre was Borgenhaugen.The parish of Skjeberg was established as a municipality January 1, 1838 ....
, and Varteig
Varteig

Varteig is a former municipality in ?stfold county, Norway.It was created by a split from Tune, Norway in 1861. At that time Varteig had a population of 1,405....
 were merged with the city on 1 January 1992. The population is steadily growing, and during the summer of 2005 it reached 50,000 inhabitants.

City districts

  • Hasle
    Hasle, Østfold

    Hasle is a village in the municipality of Sarpsborg, Norway, located on the eastern bank of Glomma. Its population is 698 . Before 1992 Hasle was a part of Varteig municipality....
  • Sarpsborg
  • Ise
  • Skjeberg
    Skjeberg

    Skjeberg is a former municipality in ?stfold county, Norway. The administrative centre was Borgenhaugen.The parish of Skjeberg was established as a municipality January 1, 1838 ....
  • Alvim
    Alvim, Sarpsborg

    Alvim is a District of Sarpsborg, Norway....
  • Greåker
    Greåker

    Gre?ker is a borough in the city of Sarpsborg, Norway, located 7 km west of the city centre. Before 1992 Gre?ker was a part of Tune, Norway municipality....
  • Grålum
  • Borgenhaugen
    Borgenhaugen

    Borgenhaugen is a borough in the city of Sarpsborg, Norway, located east of the city centre. Before 1992 Borgenhaugen was a part of Skjeberg municipality, and the old Skjeberg council hall is located here....
  • Yven
    Yven

    Yven is a borough in the city of Sarpsborg, Norway, located east of the city centre. Yven was previously located in Tune, Norway municipality....
  • Høysand
    Høysand

    H?ysand is a village in Sarpsborg municipality, Norway. Located just south of the village Skjeberg, it is a part of the urban area of the same name, which has a population of 1,919. ...
  • Varteig
    Varteig

    Varteig is a former municipality in ?stfold county, Norway.It was created by a split from Tune, Norway in 1861. At that time Varteig had a population of 1,405....
  • Hafslund
    Hafslund

    Hafslund is a borough in the city of Sarpsborg, Norway, located east of the city centre. Before 1992 Hafslund was a part of Skjeberg municipality....
  • Gleng
  • Fritznerbakken
  • Lande
  • Valaskjold
  • Brevik


Notable residents

  • John Anderson (1873-1949), Major League Baseball
    Major League Baseball

    Major League Baseball is the highest level of play in American professional baseball. Specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the organization that operates the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure that has developed gradually between them since 1903 ....
     player for fifteen seasons in the United States
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
  • Arne Arnardo
    Arne Arnardo

    Arne Arnardo, born Arne Otto Lorang Andersen , was a Norway circus performer and -owner.Arnardo worked as Equilibristics, trapeze artist, contortionist, Magic and Ventriloquism, before founding the circus Arnardo in 1949....
    , famous Norwegian circus
    Circus

    File:Faroe stamp 416 circus.jpgA circus is commonly a traveling company of performers that may include acrobatics, clowns, trained animals, trapeze acts, hoopers, tightrope walkers, juggling, unicyclists and other stunt-oriented artists....
     owner
  • Harald Dahl, father of British author Roald Dahl
    Roald Dahl

    Roald Dahl was a United Kingdom novelist, short story writer and screenwriter, born in Wales of Norwegian people parents. After service in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, In which he became a flying ace, he rose to prominence in the 1940s with works for both Children's literature and adults, and became one of the world's bes...
  • Nadia Eide, actress, singer, dancer
  • Jan Groth (1946–), vocalist/song writer/artist (Aunt Mary/Just4Fun/Oslo Gospel Choir/Aage Samuelsen tributes)
  • Jonas Groth (1977–), artist/vocalist
  • Stephan Groth
    Stephan Groth

    Stephan Groth is the man behind Apoptygma Berzerk, an electronic dance music act that plays in styles such as synthpop, Electronic body music, and futurepop....
     (1971–), artist (Apoptygma Berzerk)
  • , artist (sculptor)
  • Stian Joneid (1978–), artist/vocalist
  • Trond Joneid (1948–2007), artist/vocalist/drummer (The Saints/Sirkus Sørensen)
  • Raymond Kvisvik
    Raymond Kvisvik

    Raymond Kvisvik is a Norway national football team football player. With background from teams in hometown Sarpsborg, he currently plays for Fredrikstad F.K....
     (1974–), soccer player
  • Thomas Myhre
    Thomas Myhre

    Thomas Myhre is a Norway international football goalkeeper. He currently plays for Viking F.K., having returned in July 2007 to the club where he made his breakthrough in professional football....
    , goalkeeper (soccer)
  • Åge Sten Nilsen artist/vocalist/song writer ("Glam" from Wig Wam/The Show Must Go On (Queen Tribute)/Rondo)
  • Robert Normann (1916–1998), legendary guitar
    Guitar

    The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
     player
  • Nils Ole Oftebro, actor
    Actor

    An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
  • Per-Åge Skrøder
    Per-Åge Skrøder

    Per-?ge Skr?der is a Norwegian ice hockey player, currently playing for Modo Hockey in the Swedish Elitserien....
    , ice hockey
    Ice hockey

    Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team sport played on ice. It is a fast paced and physical sport. Ice hockey is most popular in areas that are sufficiently cold for natural reliable seasonal ice cover such as Canada, the northern United States, Scandinavia and Russia, though with the advent of indoor artificial ice r...
     player
  • Jens Arne Svartedal
    Jens Arne Svartedal

    Jens Arne Svartedal is a Norway cross country skier who has competed since 1996. He represents Tr?sken IL from Sarpsborg in Norway. His greatest achievement is winning the individual sprint gold medal at the 2007 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo....
    , international skiing
    Skiing

    Snow skiing is a group of sports using skis as primary equipment. Skis are used in conjunction with ski boots that connect to the ski with use of a ski bindings....
     champion
  • Oscar Torp
    Oscar Torp

    was Prime Minister of Norway 1951 to 1955, and chairman of the Det Norske Arbeiderparti from 1923-1945.He was List of mayors of Oslo from 1934-35....
     (1893–1958), former Prime Minister of Norway
  • Lene Alexandra Øien
    Lene Alexandra

    Lene Alexandra ?ien is a Norway singer, and former model for FHM magazine, as well a former Norway List of men's magazines#Lad mags Lek and Cats model....
    , glamour model
  • Walther Aas (1928–1990), artist
  • Ole Slorer Financial analyst


Sister cities

Sarpsborg has several sister cities
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....
:
  • - Bethlehem
    Bethlehem

    Bethlehem is a Palestine city in the central West Bank, approximately south of Jerusalem, with a population of about 30,000 people. It is the capital of the Bethlehem Governorate of the Palestinian National Authority and a hub of Palestinian culture and tourism....
    , Palestinian territories
    Palestinian territories

    The Palestinian territories are composed of two discontiguous regions, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, whose final status has yet to be determined....
  • - Berwick-upon-Tweed
    Berwick-upon-Tweed

    Berwick-upon-Tweed , situated in the county of Northumberland, is the northernmost town in England, on the east coast at the mouth of the River Tweed....
    , Northumberland
    Northumberland

    Northumberland is a Counties of England in the North East England of England. The non-metropolitan counties of England of Northumberland borders Cumbria to the west, County Durham to the south and Tyne and Wear to the south east, as well as having a border with the Scottish Borders council area to the north, and nearly eighty miles of Nort...
    , United Kingdom
    United Kingdom

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
  • - Södertälje
    Södertälje Municipality

    S?dert?lje Municipality is a municipalities of Sweden in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. Its seat is located in the stad of S?dert?lje....
    , 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

    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....
  • - Grand Forks
    Grand Forks, North Dakota

    Grand Forks is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat of Grand Forks County, North Dakota. In July 2007, its population was estimated at 51,740, and it had an estimated metropolitan population of 97,691....
    , North Dakota
    North Dakota

    North Dakota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States and Western United States regions of the United States of America. North Dakota is the 19th largest state by area in the US; it is the 48th most populous, with just over 640,000 residents as of 2006....
    , United States
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
  • - Struer, Midtjylland
    Region Midtjylland

    Region Midtjylland is an administrative region 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....
  • - Forssa
    Forssa

    Forssa is a Cities of Finland and municipalities of Finland of Finland.It is located almost in the centre of a triangle defined by the three largest major cities in Finland , in the provinces of Finland of Southern Finland and is part of the Tavastia Proper regions of Finland....
    , Etelä-Suomen lääni
    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....


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