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Osen kommune — Municipality — 
Coat of arms
Sør-Trøndelag within
NorwayOsen within Sør-Trøndelag
Coordinates: 64°16′28″N 10°37′9″E / 64.27444°N 10.61917°ECoordinates: 64°16′28″N 10°37′9″E / 64.27444°N 10.61917°E Country Norway County Sør-Trøndelag District Fosen Administrative centre Steinsdalen Government - Mayor (2007) Jørn Nordmeland
(formerly of SV)Area - Total 387.48 km2 (149.6 sq mi) - Land 369.99 km2 (142.9 sq mi) - Water 17.49 km2 (6.8 sq mi) Area rank 241 in Norway Population (2010) - Total 1,033 - Rank 405 in Norway - Density 2.8/km2 (7.3/sq mi) - Change (10 years) -13.5 % Demonym Osing[1] Time zone CET (UTC+1) - Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2) ISO 3166 code NO-1633 Official language form Bokmål Website osen.kommune.no Data from Statistics Norway 
Osen (help·info) is a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Fosen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Steinsdalen. Osen is one of two Norwegian municipalities that do not have any non-western immigrants as of 1 January 2008.[2]Contents
General information
View of Strand
The municipality of Osen was established on 1 June 1892 when the old municipality of Bjørnør was split into three municipalities. The initial population of Osen was 1,575. The municipal boundaries have not changed since.[3]
Name
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Osen farm (Old Norse: Óss), since the first church was built there. The name is identical with the word óss which means "mouth of a river" (here Steinselva). Osen ("the Os") is a later finite form of óss.[4]
Coat-of-arms
The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 27 March 1987. The arms show a part of a fishing net placed over the shield. The arms simply indicate the importance of fishing for the community. Several different arms were designed, all with fisheries as the main theme, but the council finally chose this one, which is unique among civic heraldry.[5]
Churches
The Church of Norway has one parish (sokn) within the municipality of Osen. It is part of the Deanery (prosti) of Fosen and the Diocese of Nidaros.
Churches in Osen Parish
(Sokn)Church Name Year Built Location
of the ChurchOsen Osen kirke 1877 Steinsdalen Seter kapell 1969 Seter Geography
Normeland waterfallThe municipality of Osen is located to the north of Roan. The rest of the municipality is surrounded by Nord-Trøndelag county to the north and east. The ocean lies to the west.
Most of the residents live in the Steinsdalen valley or along the coast. The northern part of the municipality has no direct road connection to the rest of the municipality, but is connected to the municipality of Flatanger to the north.
The Kya lighthouse and Buholmråsa lighthouse lie in the ocean in the western part of the municipality.
References
- ^ "Personnemningar til stadnamn i Noreg" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet. http://www.sprakrad.no/nb-no/Sprakhjelp/Rettskrivning_Ordboeker/Innbyggjarnamn/.
- ^ "Tabell 10 Innvandrerbefolkningen, etter vestlig og ikke-vestlig landbakgrunn og kommune" (in Norwegian). Statistics Norway. 1 January 2008. http://www.ssb.no/emner/02/01/10/innvbef/tab-2008-04-29-10.html.
- ^ Jukvam, Dag (1999). "Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen" (in Norwegian). Statistisk sentralbyrå. http://www.ssb.no/emner/00/90/rapp_9913/rapp_9913.pdf.
- ^ Rygh, Oluf (1901) (in Norwegian). Norske gaardnavne: Søndre Trondhjems amt (14 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. pp. 3. http://books.google.com/books?id=AGxBAAAAIAAJ.
- ^ Norske Kommunevåpen (1990). "Nye kommunevåbener i Norden". http://www.ngw.nl/int/nor/o/osen.htm. Retrieved 27 October 2008.
External links
Media related to Osen at Wikimedia Commons- Sør-Trøndelag travel guide from Wikitravel
- Municipal fact sheet from Statistics Norway
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