Lardal

Lardal kommune
Lardal kommune
	Municipality
	Coat of arms Vestfold within ; Norway
	Lardal within Vestfold
	Coordinates: 59°22′56″N 9°54′19″E
Country	Norway
County	Vestfold
Administrative centre	Svarstad
Government
• Mayor (2015)	Knut Olav Omholt (Sp)
Area
• Total	278 km2 (107 sq mi)
• Land	271 km2 (105 sq mi)
Area rank	286 in Norway
Population (2015)
• Total	2,463
• Density	8.9/km2 (23/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Lardøling[1]
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	NO-0728
Official language form	Bokmål[2]
Website	www.lardal.kommune.no
	Data from Statistics Norway

Lardal (Urban East Norwegian: [ˈlɑ̂rdɑːl])[3] is a former municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Svarstad. The parish of Laurdal was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The municipality was divided into the parishes of Svarstad, Styrvoll, and Hem.

As a part of Norway's nationwide municipal reform, Lardal was merged into Larvik on 1 January 2018.

Pikstein, the highest point in Lardal, is located in westernmost Lardal at the border to Buskerud County.[4]

General information

Name

The Old Norse form of the name was Lagardalr. The first element is the genitive case of lǫgr meaning "water" or "river" (here the Numedalslågen river). The last element is dalr which means "valley" or "dale". Prior to 1889, the name was spelled "Laurdal".[5]

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 17 July 1992. It was designed by Arvid Steen. The arms show a golden huldra on a red background. The huldra is a part of old Scandinavian folklore. This was chosen to represent the large forested areas in Lardal that were said to be inhabited by huldra.[6]

**Number of minorities (1st and 2nd generation) in Lardal by country of origin in 2017**[7]
Ancestry	Number
Poland	41
Lithuania	35
Bosnia	22

Churches

Hem church
Styrvoll church
Svarstad church

References

"Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
"Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
Berulfsen, Bjarne (1969). Norsk Uttaleordbok (in Norwegian). Oslo: H. Aschehoug & Co (W Nygaard). p. 194.
Larsen, Erlend (2011). På Tur i Vestfold del 2. E-forlag. Page 172. ISBN 9788293057222.
Rygh, Oluf (1907). Norske gaardnavne: Jarlsberg og Larviks amt (in Norwegian) (6 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. pp. 367–368.
"Kommunevåpen" (in Norwegian). Lardal kommuner. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved 2009-01-13.
"Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents, by immigration category, country background and percentages of the population". ssb.no. Archived from the original on 23 Sep 2017. Retrieved 29 June 2015.

External links

Media related to Lardal at Wikimedia Commons
The dictionary definition of Lardal at Wiktionary
Municipal fact sheet from Statistics Norway
Vestfold 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] Berulfsen, Bjarne (1969). Norsk Uttaleordbok (in Norwegian). Oslo: H. Aschehoug & Co (W Nygaard). p. 194.

[4] Larsen, Erlend (2011). På Tur i Vestfold del 2. E-forlag. Page 172. ISBN 9788293057222.

[5] Rygh, Oluf (1907). Norske gaardnavne: Jarlsberg og Larviks amt (in Norwegian) (6 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. pp. 367–368.

[6] "Kommunevåpen" (in Norwegian). Lardal kommuner. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved 2009-01-13.

[7] "Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents, by immigration category, country background and percentages of the population". ssb.no. Archived from the original on 23 Sep 2017. Retrieved 29 June 2015.