Drangedal

Drangedal kommune
Drangedal kommune
	Municipality
	Coat of arms Vestfold og Telemark within ; Norway
	Drangedal within Vestfold og Telemark
	Coordinates: 59°7′24″N 8°58′55″E
Country	Norway
County	Vestfold og Telemark
District	Vestmar
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[1]
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	NO-3815
Official language form	Neutral[2]
Website	www.drangedal.kommune.no
	Data from Statistics Norway

Drangedal is a municipality in Vestfold og 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'.[3]

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

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