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Drangedal kommune
Drangedal kommune
	; Municipality;
	;
; ; Coat of arms;	; ; Telemark within ; Norway;
	; ; Drangedal within Telemark;
	; Coordinates: 59°7′24″N 8°58′55″E / 59.12333°N 8.98194°E / 59.12333; 8.98194Coordinates: 59°7′24″N 8°58′55″E / 59.12333°N 8.98194°E / 59.12333; 8.98194;
Country	; Norway;
County	; Telemark;
District	; Grenland;
Administrative centre	; Prestestranda;
Government;
• Mayor (2016);	; Tor Peder Lohne (Ap)
Area;
• Total	; 1,063 km2 (410 sq mi)
• Land	; 996 km2 (385 sq mi)
Area rank	; #96 in Norway
Population (2016);
• Total	; 4,136
• Rank	; #223 in Norway
• Density	; 4/km2 (10/sq mi)
• Change (10 years);	; -2.7%
Demonym(s)	; Drangedøl
Time zone	; CET (UTC+01:00)
• Summer (DST)	; CEST (UTC+02:00)
ISO 3166 code	; NO-0817;
Official language form	; Neutral;
Website	; www.drangedal.kommune.no;
	; Data from Statistics Norway;

Municipality in Telemark, Norway

Drangedal is a municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Grenland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Prestestranda. The municipality of Drangedal was established on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The district of Tørdal encompassed the northwestern part of the municipality.

The administrative centre in Drangedal, Prestestranda, and is situated by Lake Toke. The municipal government is located there along with primary and secondary schools, shopping facilities, and a bank. Drangedal railway station is also located in Prestestranda and is served by the Oslo to Kristiansand Sørlandsbannen railway line. The newspaper Drangedalsposten is published in Drangedal.

Alpine and cross-country skiing is possible in the area of Drangedal, at Telemark's largest ski resort at Gautefall.

General information

Drangedal Parish Church

Name

The Old Norse form of the name was Drangadalr. The first element is probably the genitive plural of drangr m 'mountain peak'. The last element is dalr m 'valley, dale'.^[2]

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted 1989. The arms show two gold-colored pine cones on a green background.

Notable natives

Hallvard Graatop (early 15th century), rebel leader opposing the Crown and the bailiffs.

Knud Wefald (1869–1936), Norwegian American politician, represented Minnesota Farmer Labor Party in the United States Congress in Washington D.C.

Andrew Gulickson (1856–1941), Norwegian American politician, member of Wisconsin State Assembly

Knut T. Storbukås, musician, known by nickname "Sputnik".

References

^ "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet. Retrieved 2015-12-01.

^ Rygh, Oluf (1914). Norske gaardnavne: Bratsbergs amt (Dokumentasjonsprosjektet) (in Norwegian) (7 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri.

External links

Media related to Drangedal at Wikimedia Commons

The dictionary definition of Drangedal at Wiktionary

Municipal fact sheet from Statistics Norway

Telemark travel guide from Wikivoyage

[1] "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet. Retrieved 2015-12-01.

[2] Rygh, Oluf (1914). Norske gaardnavne: Bratsbergs amt (Dokumentasjonsprosjektet) (in Norwegian) (7 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri.

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