Glemmen

Glemmen

Glemmen is a former municipality in Østfold county, Norway.

The parish of "Glemminge" was established as a municipality January 1, 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). A part of Glemmen with 2,013 inhabitants was moved to Fredrikstad January 1, 1867. The island of Kråkerøy was separated from Glemmen to form a municipality of its own January 1, 1908. The split left Glemmen with 10.430 inhabitants.

The rest of Glemmen was merged with the city of Fredrikstad January 1, 1964. Prior to the merger Glemmen had a population of 16,520.

The name

The municipality (originally the parish) was named after the old farm Glemmen (Norse "Glymheimar"), since the first church was built on its ground. The first element is probably the old name of a brook, the last element is the plural form of "heimr" 'home, homestead, farm'. The name of the (supposed) brook is derived from the verb "glymja" 'rumble, make noise'.

Until 1918 the name was written "Glemminge".

References

*cite paper | author=Dag Jukvam / Statistics Norway | title=Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen | date=1999 | url=http://www.ssb.no/emner/00/90/rapp_9913/rapp_9913.pdfl


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