Hjartdal

Hjartdal kommune
Hjartdal kommune
	Municipality
	Coat of arms Vestfold og Telemark within ; Norway
	Hjartdal within Vestfold og Telemark
	Coordinates: 59°39′54″N 8°43′34″E
Country	Norway
County	Vestfold og Telemark
District	Aust-Telemark
Administrative centre	Sauland
Government
• Mayor (2015)	Bengt Halvard Odden (Ap)
Area
• Total	792 km2 (306 sq mi)
• Land	739 km2 (285 sq mi)
Area rank	137 in Norway
Population (2004)
• Total	1,633
• Rank	359 in Norway
• Density	2/km2 (5/sq mi)
• Change (10 years)	-2.8%
Demonym(s)	Hjartdøl[1]
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	NO-3819
Official language form	Nynorsk[2]
Website	www.hjartdal.kommune.no
	Data from Statistics Norway

Hjartdal is a municipality in Telemark in the county of Vestfold og Telemark in Norway. It is part of the traditional regions of Upper Telemark and Øst-Telemark. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Sauland. The municipality of Hierdal was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). It consists of three parish'es: Hjartdal, Sauland, and Tuddal.

Up to the 1500s Hjartdal parish stretched from Rauland in the west and Kongsberg to the east. Counting from west to east, the villages Åmotsdal, Svartdal, Hjartdal, Tuddal, Sauland, Gransherad, Bolkesjø, Jondalen and Lisleherad was at one point included in the same parish. About 1620 Lisleherad was transferred to Heddal, and last, Gransherad was separated 1860. At the same time the administrative centre was moved from Hjartdal village to Sauland. Today, the Hjartdal parish and municipality consist of the three villages Hjartdal, Sauland and Tuddal.[3][4]

General information

Name

The Old Norse form of the name was Hjartdalr. The first element is probably a river name *Hjarta (now called the Hjartdøla river) and the last element is dalr m 'valley, dale'. The river name is derived from hjǫrtr m 'red deer'.[5]

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted in 1989. The arms show a silver-colored red deer on a green background. They are canting arms because the name of the municipality is derived from the word for deer.

Notable residents

Knut Buen, master fiddler living in Tuddal
Sven Tore Løkslid, current county governor of Telemark, and former mayor of Hjartdal

References

"Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
"Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
Cultural Centre in Telemark
Hitterdalsboken : gaarde og slegter
Rygh, Oluf (1914). Norske gaardnavne: Bratsbergs amt (Dokumentasjonsprosjektet) (in Norwegian) (7 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. pp. 297–298.

External links

Media related to Hjartdal at Wikimedia Commons
The dictionary definition of Hjartdal 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] Cultural Centre in Telemark

[4] Hitterdalsboken : gaarde og slegter

[5] Rygh, Oluf (1914). Norske gaardnavne: Bratsbergs amt (Dokumentasjonsprosjektet) (in Norwegian) (7 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. pp. 297–298.