Åmot Municipality

Åmot is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Østerdalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Rena. Other villages in the municipality include Åsta, Osneset, and Snippen.<ref name="snl">Template:Cite SNL</ref>

The Template:Convert municipality is the 72nd largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Åmot is the 200th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 4,205. The municipality's population density is Template:Convert and its population has decreased by 3.7% over the previous 10-year period.<ref name="ssb pop">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="ssb area">Template:Cite web</ref>

General information

Painting of Åmot from 1810

View of the centre of Rena

Bergerloftet museum

The parish of Aamot (later spelled Åmot) was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt law). In 1880, the Nordre Osen area of Trysil Municipality (population: 302) was transferred into Åmot Municipality. The municipal borders have not changed since that time.<ref name="Dag">Template:Cite web</ref>

Historically, the municipality was part of Hedmark county. On 1 January 2020, the municipality became a part of the newly-formed Innlandet county (after Hedmark and Oppland counties were merged).<ref>Template:Cite SNL</ref>

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Åmot farm (Template:Langx) since the first Åmot Church was built there. The first element is Template:Wikt-lang which means "river". The last element is Template:Wikt-lang which means "meeting" or "joint". Thus the name means the meeting of the rivers; in this case it is referring to the confluence of the rivers Glomma and Rena.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> On 21 December 1917, a royal resolution enacted the 1917 Norwegian language reforms. Prior to this change, the name was spelled Aamot with the digraph "Aa", and after this reform, the name was spelled Åmot, using the letter Å instead.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was granted on 26 February 1988. The official blazon is "Vert, three axes palewise Or" (Template:Langx). This means the arms have a green field (background) and the charge is a set of three axes. The charge has a tincture of Or which means it is commonly colored yellow, but if it is made out of metal, then gold is used. The design symbolizes the importance and history of the logging industry in the area. For hundreds of years, forestry, together with agriculture, has been the most important source of income in the municipality. The ax that is in the design is called a running axe or narrow axe. It was used by log drivers when they had to chain logs together for transport. The arms were designed by John Digernes. The municipal flag has the same design as the coat of arms.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Churches

The Church of Norway has three parishes (Template:Lang) within Åmot Municipality. It is part of the Sør-Østerdal prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Hamar.

Churches in Åmot

Parish (Template:Lang)	Church name	Location of the church	Year built
Deset	Deset Church	Deset	1867
Nordre Osen	Nordre Osen Church	Osneset	1923
	Old Nordre Osen Church	Osneset	1777
Åmot	Åmot Church	Rena	1901

Education

Åmot has four schools: Åmot Ungdomsskole (Åmot Lower secondary school), Rena Barneskole, Deset Oppvekstsenter, and Osen Oppvekstsenter.

Government

Åmot Municipality is responsible for primary education (through 10th grade), outpatient health services, senior citizen services, welfare and other social services, zoning, economic development, and municipal roads and utilities. The municipality is governed by a municipal council of directly elected representatives. The mayor is indirectly elected by a vote of the municipal council.<ref name="ks">Template:Cite SNL</ref> The municipality is under the jurisdiction of the Hedmarken og Østerdal District Court and the Eidsivating Court of Appeal.

Municipal council

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Mayor

The mayor (Template:Langx) of Åmot Municipality is the political leader of the municipality and the chairperson of the municipal council. Here is a list of people who have held this position:<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Template:Div col

• 1838–1839: Ole Bryhnie<ref name="ÅH">Template:Cite news</ref>
• 1840–1844: Andreas Wulfsberg Dircks<ref name="ÅH" />
• 1845–1845: Ole Bryhnie<ref name="ÅH" />
• 1846–1847: Peder Alme<ref name="ÅH" />
• 1848–1849: Jens Hals<ref name="ÅH" />
• 1850–1851: Johannes Øgle<ref name="ÅH" />
• 1852–1855: Adolf Iversen Glomstad
• 1856–1857: Ivar Almus<ref name="ÅH" />
• 1858–1863: Andreas Knudsen<ref name="ÅH" />
• 1864–1867: Adolf Iversen Glomstad<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 1868–1873: Hans Heggen<ref name="ÅH" />
• 1874–1877: Haaken Knudsen Skramstad<ref name="ÅH" />
• 1878–1881: Haaken Øgle<ref name="ÅH" />
• 1882–1884: Haaken Knudsen Skramstad (V)<ref name="ÅH" />
• 1885–1889: Haaken Øgle (V)<ref name="ÅH" />
• 1890–1893: Tollef Kilde (V)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 1894–1896: Ole S. Aaset (MV)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 1897–1898: Olav Nergaard (V)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 1899–1901: Ole S. Aaset (MV)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 1901–1904: Olav Nergaard (V)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 1905–1910: Tollef Kilde (V)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 1911–1919: Haakon Bolstad (ArbDem)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 1920–1923: Johan Næss (ArbDem)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 1923–1925: Eivind Petershagen (NKP)
• 1926–1940: Ole Hermansen (NKP)
• 1941–1943: Peder Edvard Vorum (NS)
• 1943–1945: Karsten Rosenberg (NS)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 1945–1947: Eivind Petershagen (NKP)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 1947–1959: Ludvig Johansen (Ap)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 1959–1975: Bjørn Bakke (Ap)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 1975–1987: Kåre Halvorsen (SV)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 1987–1991: Per L. Gundersen (Ap)
• 1991–1993: Vivi Nysveen Østerås (SV)<ref name="SVSP">Template:Cite news</ref>
• 1994–1999: Åse Grønlien Østmoe (Sp)<ref name="SVSP" />
• 1999–2003: Per L. Gundersen (Ap)
• 2003–2011: Ole Gustav Narud (Sp)
• 2011–2015: Espen André Kristiansen (Ap)
• 2015–2019: Ole Gustav Narud (Sp)
• 2019–present: Ole Erik Hørstad (H)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Geography

Åmot is located in the east-central part of Innlandet county. It is bordered to the north by Rendalen Municipality, to the east by Trysil Municipality, to the south by Elverum Municipality, to the southwest by Hamar Municipality and Ringsaker Municipality, and in the west by Stor-Elvdal Municipality.

The Renaelva and Julussa rivers are both tributaries of the large river Glomma, all three of which flow through Åmot. The Kjøllsæter Bridge crosses the river Renaelva, just north of its confluence with the Julussa river. The Julussdalen valley follows the river Julussa through the municipality. The highest point in the municipality is the Template:Convert tall mountain Hemmelkampen, a tripoint on the border of Åmot Municipality, Stor-Elvdal Municipality, and Ringsaker Municipality.<ref name="elev" />

Population

Number of minorities (1st and 2nd generation) in Åmot Municipality by country of origin in 2017<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Ancestry	Number
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Vilhelm Uchermann

Notable people

• Vilhelm Uchermann (1852 in Åmot – 1929), a physician who was Norway's first otorhinolaryngologist
• Tollef Kilde (1853 in Åmot – 1947), a forest owner, politician, and local Mayor ca.1900
• Hans Storhaug, MM, DSM (1915 in Rena – 1995), a Norwegian resistance member during WWII
• Vidar Sandbeck (1918 in Åmot – 2005), a Norwegian folk singer, composer, and writer
• Anne-Cath. Vestly (1920 in Rena – 2008), an author of children's literature
• Ivar Nergaard (born 1964 in Rena), an actor and writer<ref>Template:IMDb name. Retrieved 2020-09-24.</ref>
• Stian Berget (born 1977 in Rena), a retired footballer with almost 200 club caps
• Tuva Novotny (born 1979), a Swedish actress, director and singer; brought up in Åmot<ref>Template:IMDb name. Retrieved 2020-09-24.</ref>

External links

• Municipal fact sheet from Statistics Norway Template:In lang