Hemsedal Municipality
Hemsedal is a municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Hallingdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Trøym. Hemsedal lies on the Norwegian National Road 52 (Rv 52). Hemsedal Municipality is located northwest of Oslo and from Bergen. In 1897, Hemsedal was separated from Gol Municipality to become a municipality of its own.
Key facts
- Kommune.name
- Hemsedal
- Kommune.idnumber
- 3042
- Kommune.image_skyline
- File:Hydnefossen3.jpg
- Kommune.county
- Buskerud
- Kommune.district
- Hallingdal
- Kommune.capital
- Trøym
- Kommune.demonym
- Hemsedøl
- Kommune.language
- Nynorsk
- Kommune.coatofarms
- Hemsedal_komm.svg
- Kommune.munwebpage
- www.hemsedal.kommune.no
- Kommune.mayor
- Pål Rørby
- Kommune.mayor_party
- Sp
- Kommune.mayor_as_of
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Hemsedal is a municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Hallingdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Trøym. Hemsedal lies on the Norwegian National Road 52 (Rv 52). Hemsedal Municipality is located northwest of Oslo and from Bergen. In 1897, Hemsedal was separated from Gol Municipality to become a municipality of its own.
==General information== ===Name=== The Old Norse form of the name was Hemsudalr. The second element is dalr, which means "dale" or "valley"; the first element is usually taken as the genitive case of the river name Hemsa (now Hemsil) of unknown derivation, although Sophus Bugge believed that it might derive from the Old Norse hemsa, hefnsa or hofn, meaning "going to pasture". The Norwegian word hems ("bed built in a small loft room") is named after the valley of Hemsedal.