Ålen
Ålen herred | |
|---|---|
| Municipality ID | NO-1644 |
| Adm. Center | Ålen |
| Area | |
| • Total | 718 km2 (277 sq mi) |
| Created from | Holtaalen in 1855 |
| Merged into | Holtålen in 1972 |
Ålen | |
|---|---|
Village | |
| Country | Norway |
| Region | Trøndelag |
| County | Sør-Trøndelag |
| District | Gauldalen |
| Municipality | Holtålen |
| Elevation | 380 m (1,250 ft) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Post Code | 7380 Ålen |
Ålen is a village and a former municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is the administrative centre of the municipality of Holtålen. The former municipality encompassed the southeastern half of the present-day municipality of Holtålen.[1]
The village of Ålen is located along the Gaula River and the Rørosbanen railway line. It is about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) southeast of the village of Haltdalen. The village is just northwest of the village of Renbygda. On the east side of the village is Ålen Church.
History
The municipality of Ålen was established in 1855 when it was split from the municipality of Holtaalen. Initially, Ålen had a population of 1,487. An uninhabited part of Ålen was moved to Røros in 1875. The remaining part of Holtålen changed its name to Haltdalen in 1937. On 1 January 1972, Ålen was merged with Haltdalen to re-form the old municipality of Holtålen. Prior to the merger Ålen municipality had a population of 1,944. On 21 April 1989, a small unpopulated part of Røros was transferred to Holtålen.[3]
15.august.2011 Ålen experienced a big flood. This is the lagest flood sice 1940. More than one area vas isoleted, amond them was the villages center and Anegrenda. The flood arrived during the night, by the time people woke up in the morning they were trapped in their homes, and in some cases it was nessaserry to use rescue helicopter. No one alerted about the flood, but in that day about 50mm to 80mm of rain came down in Ålen. It was aot of damage on homes, cars, roads and public buildings. Most of the stores "downtown" were floded with water over a meter up on the walls. The river was flowing over all the bridges, and made it impossible to drive over with any viakle. One and onlly suspention bridge in the area was twisted and totaly wrecked. Ålen planned to open the new footballcort two days after the flood this was of course also flooded. Ålen got many from the insurence and was able to rebuild the villagee to the better.
References
- ^ a b Store norske leksikon. "Ålen – kommune" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2011-02-18.
- ^ "Ålen" (in Norwegian). yr.no. Retrieved 2011-02-18.
- ^ Jukvam, Dag (1999). "Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Statistisk sentralbyrå.
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