Skiptvet

Skiptvet kommune
Skiptvet kommune
Municipality
	Skiptvet church
	Flag Coat of arms Viken within ; Norway
	Skiptvet within Viken
	Coordinates: 59°28′50″N 11°8′40″E
Country	Norway
County	Viken
Administrative centre	Meieribyen
Government
• Mayor (2007)	Svein Olav Agnalt (Ap)
Area
• Total	101 km2 (39 sq mi)
• Land	93 km2 (36 sq mi)
• Rank	#384 in Norway
Population (2004)
• Total	3,336
• Rank	#251 in Norway
• Density	36/km2 (90/sq mi)
• Change (10 years)	+8.7%
Demonym	Skjetving[1]
Official language [2]
• Norwegian form	Bokmål
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	NO-3015
Website	Official website
	Data from Statistics Norway

Skiptvet is a municipality in Viken county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Meieribyen. Skiptvet was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt).

General information

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Skiptvet farm (Old Norse: Skipþveit and/or Skygþveit) because the first church was built here. The meaning of the first element(s) is not known, and the last element is þveit 'clearing in the woods'. Prior to 1889, the name was written Skibtvet.

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 27 November 1981. The arms show a silver dragon on a red background. The dragon is derived from a local legend, in which a dragon went to sleep in the local churchyard every morning. In the evening the dragon went back to the forest, where it had its lair. A tarn near the church is still called Dragehullet meaning "the dragon's pit".[3]

**Number of minorities (1st and 2nd generation) in Skiptvet by country of origin in 2015**[4]
Ancestry	Number
Poland	124
Syria	32
Lithuania	27
Latvia	27
Sweden	23

Notable people

Jens Christian Spidberg (1684 in Skiptvet - 1762) cartographer, theologian, priest and Bishop of the Diocese of Agder og Telemark

References

"Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
"Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
Norske Kommunevåpen (1990). "Nye kommunevåbener i Norden". Retrieved 2008-12-15.
"Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents, by immigration category, country background and percentages of the population". ssb.no. Retrieved 29 June 2015.

External links

Media related to Skiptvet at Wikimedia Commons
Østfold travel guide from Wikivoyage
The dictionary definition of Skiptvet at Wiktionary
Municipal fact sheet from Statistics Norway

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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] Norske Kommunevåpen (1990). "Nye kommunevåbener i Norden". Retrieved 2008-12-15.

[4] "Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents, by immigration category, country background and percentages of the population". ssb.no. Retrieved 29 June 2015.