Eidsberg

Eidsberg kommune
Eidsberg kommune
Municipality
	Flag Coat of arms Østfold within ; Norway
	Eidsberg within Østfold
	Coordinates: 59°32′13″N 11°21′37″E
Country	Norway
County	Østfold
District	Smaalenene
Administrative centre	Mysen
Government
• Mayor (2003)	Knut Jørgen Herland (Sp)
Area
• Total	236 km2 (91 sq mi)
• Land	229 km2 (88 sq mi)
• Rank	#311 in Norway
Population (2004)
• Total	10,121
• Rank	#100 in Norway
• Density	44/km2 (110/sq mi)
• Change (10 years)	+10.5%
Demonym	Eidsberging[1]
Official language [2]
• Norwegian form	Bokmål
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	NO-0125
Website	Official website
	Data from Statistics Norway

Eidsberg was a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality was the town of Mysen. In 2020, Eidsberg was absorbed into the Indre Østfold municipality.[3][4]

Eidsberg was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The town of Mysen was separated from Eidsberg to form a municipality of its own on 1 July 1920, but it was merged back into the municipality of Eidsberg on 1 January 1961.

General information

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) was named after the old Eidsberg farm (Old Norse: Eiðsberg) because the first church was built here. The first element is the genitive case of eið 'path around a waterfall' and the last element is berg 'mountain'. Prior to 1847, the name was spelled Edsberg.

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms was from modern times. It was granted on 16 March 1962. The arms show a bear, which is taken as a symbol for Arnbjørn Jonsson, who lived in Eidsberg. The bear is canting for Bjørn (Norwegian: bear). He was a well-known warrior during the civil war era under King Håkon Håkonsson, until his death in 1240.[5]

Minorities

**Number of minorities (1st and 2nd generation) in Eidsberg by country of origin in 2017**[6]
Ancestry	Number
Poland	398
Iraq	178
Lithuania	140
Bosnia-Herzegovina	99
Sweden	81
Kosovo	65
Russia	58
Somalia	47
Pakistan	40
Denmark	36

Notable people

References

"Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
"Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
Five merged Østfold municipalities have been renamed (Norwegian)
Indre Østfold (kommune) (Norwegian)
Norske Kommunevåpen (1990). "Nye kommunevåbener i Norden". Retrieved 2008-12-13.
"Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents, by immigration category, country background and percentages of the population". ssb.no. Archived from the original on 2 July 2015. Retrieved 24 June 2017.

External links

Media related to Eidsberg at Wikimedia Commons
Østfold travel guide from Wikivoyage
The dictionary definition of Eidsberg at Wiktionary
Municipal fact sheet from Statistics Norway

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[1] "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.

[2] "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.

[3] Five merged Østfold municipalities have been renamed (Norwegian)

[4] Indre Østfold (kommune) (Norwegian)

[5] Norske Kommunevåpen (1990). "Nye kommunevåbener i Norden". Retrieved 2008-12-13.

[6] "Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents, by immigration category, country background and percentages of the population". ssb.no. Archived from the original on 2 July 2015. Retrieved 24 June 2017.