Akershus

coat of arms	map
Basic data
Country :	Norway
Administrative center :	Oslo (but not part of Akershus itself )
Area :	4,917.95 km² (land area 4,578.91 km²)
Residents :	624,055 (January 1, 2019)
Population density :	117 inhabitants / km²
Municipalities :	22nd
ISO 3166-2	NO-02
politics
Fylkesordfører :	Anette Solli
Fylkesmann :	Hans J. Røsjorde

Akershus (from Old Norse akr "mark" and hús "house", but understood here as a castle) is a traditional region in Norway with Oslo as its center. Akershus historically refers to both a large part of the country , which comprised most of Eastern Norway from the Middle Ages to 1919 , and a smaller central province ( Amt , from 1919 Fylke ) in the greater Oslo region until 2020. Most of modern Oslo belonged to Akershus until 1948 . The area of ​​the former Fylkes Akershus continues to form an electoral district even after the regional reform in which it was transferred to the newly created province of Viken .

history

Akershus referred to different provinces in Norway from the Middle Ages, which were named after the Akershus fortress in Oslo. From the Middle Ages to 1919 Akershus was a Hauptlehen ( Akershus Len ) and then from 1662 a Stiftsamt ( Akershus Stiftsamt ), which comprised most of Eastern Norway . The monastery office comprised several sub-offices, such as Akershus (from 1682), Buskerud (from 1685), Oplandenes Amt (from 1768) and Christiania (from 1842).

From 1682 to 2020 Akershus had a narrower meaning than a central sub-office and then from 1919 Fylke , which originally included the modern greater Oslo region, but was much smaller than the Akershus monastery. In 1842, the capital Christiania, which at that time consisted of a tiny part of modern Oslo, became a separate sub-office within the Akershus Abbey. During its history, Akershus Unteramt und Fylke ceded territory to Christiania and Oslo several times; Akershus' largest and most central municipality, Aker with 133,000 inhabitants and geographically 27 times larger than Oslo, was completely merged with Oslo in 1948.

In the period from 1948 to 2020 Akershus was the name of the rest of the county, which was considerably smaller than before. With 621,800 inhabitants, it was the second most populous province in Norway after Oslo by 2020. Akershus was located around Oslo during this period and it was the only province that had its administrative center in another province, namely in Oslo, because Oslo was originally part of Akershus. This area was transferred to the newly created province of Viken on January 1, 2020 as part of the regional reform in Norway . The Akershus regional parliament voted against the merger by a large majority, mainly because Oslo was not part of Viken. The regional government of Vikens is working to restore Akershus as a county.

The term office was changed to Fylke on January 1, 1919. Before this reform, the office was divided into the bailiffs of Aker og Follo, Nedre Romerike and Øvre Romerike .

coat of arms

Description of the coat of arms : The blue-silver shield is divided by a six-step staircase cut.

Administrative division

Administrative division of Akershus (within the boundaries from 1948 to 2019)

Akershus is divided into three regions and 22 municipalities . The largest cities, i.e. settlements, regardless of the boundaries of the municipalities mentioned above, are Lillestrøm and Sandvika . Both cities belong to the greater Oslo area, but not to the city of Oslo.

rank	Commune name	Administrative headquarters	Residents (January 1, 2019)	Area in km²
1	Bærum	Sandvika	126,841	192.26
2	Asker	Asker	61,523	100.72
3	Skedsmo	Lillestrøm	55,652	77.03
4th	Lørenskog	Lørenskog	40.106	70.55
5	Ullensaker	Jessheim	38,234	252.47
6th	ski	ski	30,843	165.53
7th	Oppegård	Kolbotn	27,394	37.04
8th	Oathful	Oathful	24,919	456.50
9	Nittedal	Rotnes	24,089	186.23
10	Nes	Årnes	21,885	637.36
11	Ås	Ås	20,335	103.10
12	Nesodden	Nesodden	19,488	61.46
13	Rælingen	Fjerdingby	18,161	71.68
14th	This way	This way	18,263	206.62
15th	Vestby	Vestby	17,824	133.97
16	Aurskog-Høland	Bjørkelangen	16,500	961.66
17th	Frogn	Drøbak	15,761	85.70
18th	Nannestad	Teigebyen	13,682	340.99
19th	Fet	Fetsund	11,842	176.35
20th	Enebakk	Kirkebygda	11,026	232.58
21st	Gjerdrum	Ask	6,823	83.19
22nd	Hurdal	Hurdal	2,864	284.96
Fylke	Akershus	Oslo	624.055	4,917.95

Nesodden, Frogn, Oppegård, Ski, Vestby, Ås and the southern part (Dalefjerdingen and Ytre) of Enebakk municipality make up the Follo region.

geography

Akershus has over 2,000 lakes and numerous rivers. These include parts of the Mjøsa and the Glomma River . There is no mountain over 900 m, the highest are Fjellsjøkampen (812.3 m) in the municipality of Hurdal and the only 8 cm lower Lushaugen (812.2 m) on the border between Hurdal and the municipality of Gran in the neighboring Fylke Oppland .

education

• University of Environmental and Life Sciences in Ås
• Akershus University

Web links

Commons : Akershus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Akershus in the store norske leksikon (Norwegian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vi blir ikke helt kvitt fylket med nye regioner , NRK
2. ↑ ^{a b} Stephan Tschudi-Madsen (1999): Akershus: vårt riksklenodium 700 år . Oslo: Aschehoug. ISBN 8203223559 .
3. ↑ ^{a b} Synnøve Veinan Hellerud and Jan Messel: Oslo: tusen års historie , 2000. ISBN 82-03-22347-8
4. ↑ municipalities som ble slukt av Oslo
5. ↑ Akershus fylkeskommune: Befolkningsutvikling. Retrieved March 8, 2019 (Norwegian Bokmål). 
6. ↑ Akershus sier nei til Viken , Kommunal Rapport, accessed on January 3, 2020
7. ↑ Viken-flertallet vil legge ned Viken , Aftenposten , accessed on January 1, 2020

Coordinates: 60 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 24 ″  E