Gjerdrum

Gjerdrum Municipality

*Gjerdrum kommune*
Gjerdrum Municipality Gjerdrum kommune
Municipality
	Flag Coat of arms
	Viken within Norway
	Gjerdrum within Viken
	Coordinates: 60°4′57″N 11°0′52″E / 60.08250°N 11.01444°E
Country	Norway
County	Viken
District	Romerike
Administrative centre	Ask
Government
• Mayor (2007)	Tobben (DNT)
Area
• Total	83 km2 (32 sq mi)
• Land	82 km2 (32 sq mi)
• Rank	#396 in Norway
Population (2013)
• Total	6,267
• Rank	#192 in Norway
• Density	60/km2 (200/sq mi)
• Change (10 years)	+31.6%
Demonym	Gjermsokning
Official language
• Norwegian form	Bokmål
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	NO-3032
Website	Official website
	Data from Statistics Norway

Gjerdrum is a municipality in Akershus in Viken county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Romerike.

General information

Gjerdrum was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt).

Gjerdrum borders the municipalities of Nannestad, Nittedal, Ullensaker, Skedsmo, and Sørum. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Ask.

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Gjerdrum farm (Norse Gerðarvin). The first element is the genitive of a river name Gerð and the last element is vin f 'meadow, pasture'. The river name is derived from the Norse word garðr meaning 'fence' and so the meaning is 'the river whose function is a fence (and/or as a border)'.

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted in 1993. The arms show a traditional Norwegian form of roundpole fence. The arms are also canting because the name of the municipality refers to a fence.^[4]

**Number of minorities (1st and 2nd generation) in Gjerdrum by country of origin in 2017**^[5]
Ancestry	Number
Poland	213
Lithuania	129
Sweden	67
Iraq	47
Iceland	39

Sports

The local sports team is Gjerdrum IL.

References

^ "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
^ "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
^ Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (2023-01-26). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.
^ "Om kommunevåpenet i Gjerdrum" (in Norwegian). Gjerdrum kommune. Archived from the original on 2011-07-24. Retrieved 2008-12-18.
^ "Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents, by immigration category, country background and percentages of the population". ssb.no. Archived from the original on 2 July 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2015.

External links

Media related to Gjerdrum at Wikimedia Commons
The dictionary definition of Gjerdrum at Wiktionary
Municipal fact sheet from Statistics Norway
Akershus travel guide from Wikivoyage
GIL football (in Norwegian)

[1] "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.

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

[3] Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (2023-01-26). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.

[4] "Om kommunevåpenet i Gjerdrum" (in Norwegian). Gjerdrum kommune. Archived from the original on 2011-07-24. Retrieved 2008-12-18.

[5] "Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents, by immigration category, country background and percentages of the population". ssb.no. Archived from the original on 2 July 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2015.

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