Kråkstad

Kråkstad

Kråkstad is a village and former municipality in Ski municipality, Akershus county, Norway.

The parish of "Kraakstad" was established as a municipality January 1, 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). Ski was separated from Kråkstad July 1, 1931 - and the rest of Kråkstad was merged with Ski January 1, 1964.

The village has 839 inhabitants (2006), and a train station on Indre Østfoldbanen.The Norwegian footballer Martin Andresen grew up in this village.

This is also the town in which the Swedish black metal singer Dead committed suicide on April 8th, 1991.

There are some remains of an old hillfort in the forest above Vientjern (a small lake), a few kilometers outside Kråkstad.

ports

Kråkstad has its own football club. Having been relegated from 6th to 7th division in 2004, Kråkstad this year faces another relegation into the Norwegian 8th division. This is no big surprise as thei sold their only talent, Steffen Jensen to a slave caravan. This was a big media flash in 2004.

As mentioned above, the former Wimbledon-player and now S.K. Brann Bergen and National team-player Martin Andresen has a past in Kråkstad F.K.

The name

The municipality (originally the parish) was named after the old farm Kråkstad (Norse "Krákustaðir"), since the first church was built there. The first element is probably an old rivername ("*Kráka"), the last element is "staðir" 'homestead, farm'. The meaning of the (hypothetical) rivername is 'crow-river' (the river sounding like a crow'?).

Until 1921 the name was written "Kraakstad".


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