Hobøl

Hobøl kommune
Municipality
Coat of arms Østfold within Norway
Hobøl within Østfold
Coordinates: 59°35′35″N 10°56′45″E / 59.59306°N 10.94583°ECoordinates: 59°35′35″N 10°56′45″E / 59.59306°N 10.94583°E
Country	Norway
County	Østfold
Administrative centre	Elvestad
Government
• Mayor (2007)	Kjell Håvard Jensen (FrP)
Area
• Total	140 km^2 (50 sq mi)
• Land	139 km^2 (54 sq mi)
Area rank	365 in Norway
Population (2004)
• Total	4,504
• Rank	214 in Norway
• Density	32/km^2 (80/sq mi)
• Change (10 years)	13.4 %
Demonym(s)	Hobøling or Hobling[1]
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
ISO 3166 code	NO-0138
Official language form	Neutral
Website	www.hobol.kommune.no
Data from Statistics Norway

Hobøl is a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Elvestad. Hobøl is situated about 40 kilometres (25 mi) southeast of Oslo. The parish of Haabøl was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt).

The largest village in Hobøl is Tomter, whose railway station is served by Indre Østfoldbanen. Other villages in the municipality are Knapstad, Ringvoll, and the middle part of the municipality which is called Hobøl.

Hobøl was suggested as the replacement site for a new airport to replace Fornebu, and in 1972 the Norwegian parliament voted to build it there. The 1973 oil crisis postponed that plan, and the new airport was finally built at Gardermoen, north of Oslo.

General information

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Hobøl farm (Old Norse: Hóbœli), since the first church was built here. The first element is hór or hár meaning "high". The last element is bœli which means "farm". Thus the name means "the farm lying on a high ground". Prior to 1889 the name was written "Haabøl".

Coat-of-arms

The Coat-of-arms is from modern times. It was granted on 30 August 1985; it shows the municipality as seen from above. The municipality is mainly formed by a large valley, cut by the meandering Hobølelva river.^[2]

Number of minorities (1st and 2nd generation) in Hobøl by country of origin in 2015^[3]

Ancestry	Number
Poland	173
Lithuania	116
Sweden	44
Denmark	41
Germany	38

Sister cities

The following cities are twinned with Hobøl:^[4]

• - Rõngu, Tartu County, Estonia

References

1. "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet. Retrieved 2015-12-01.
2. Norske Kommunevåpen (1990). "Nye kommunevåbener i Norden". Retrieved 2008-12-13.
3. "Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents, by immigration category, country background and percentages of the population". ssb.no. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
4. "Vennskapskommmunen Rongu i Estland" (in Norwegian). Hobøl kommune. Retrieved 2008-12-16.

External links

• Media related to Hobøl at Wikimedia Commons
• The dictionary definition of Hobøl at Wiktionary
• Municipal fact sheet from Statistics Norway