Hurum is a municipality

Municipalities of Norway

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 in Buskerud

Buskerud

is a county in Norway, bordering Akershus, Oslo, Oppland, Sogn og Fjordane, Hordaland, Telemark, and Vestfold. The county administration is located in Drammen.-Geography:...

 county

Counties of Norway

Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called counties . The counties form the primary first-level subdivisions of Norway and are further divided into 430 municipalities...

, Norway

Norway

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. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village Klokkarstua

Klokkarstua

Klokkarstua is a village and the administrative centre of the municipality of Hurum, in the county of Buskerud, Norway. Klokkarstua is located on the southern part of Hurumlandet, the peninsula between the Oslofjord and Drammensfjord....

. The municipality of Hurum was established on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt

Formannskapsdistrikt

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). The small village of Holmsbu

Holmsbu

Holmsbu is a village in the municipality of Hurum, Norway, located by the Drammensfjord. Its population is 351.The seaport village received city rights in 1847. It lost its rights January 1, 1964....

 was granted town status

Market town

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 in 1847, but it did not become a municipality of its own. It lost its town status on 1 January 1964.

Hurum was once suggested as the location for the new national airport

Airport

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 of Norway. The plan was however abandoned, and the main airport is now situated at Gardermoen

Gardermoen

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 in Akershus county.

Name

The Old Norse

Old Norse

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 form of the name was Húðrimar. The meaning of the first element (Húð) is unknown and the last element is the plural

Plural

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 form of rimi which means "ridge

Ridge

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".

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms

Coat of arms

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 is from modern times. They were granted on 2 February 1979. The arms show two blue wavy lines on a silver background. This was chosen because the municipality is on a peninsula between two fjord

Fjord

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s: Oslofjord

Oslofjord

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 and Drammensfjord

Drammensfjord

Drammensfjord is a fjord in Norway that connects to Ytre Oslofjord on the west side. It stretches to the north and northeast. The Drammenselva river discharges into the head of the fjord...

. At the same time the arms are based on the arms of the Huitfeldt family, who played a major role in the local history. The family used a single bend as arms.

Geography

The municipality borders Røyken

Røyken

Røyken is a village and municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Midtbygda. The parish of Røken was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 ....

 to the north. To the west the coastline is located close to the eastern coast of Vestfold

Vestfold

is a county in Norway, bordering Buskerud and Telemark. The county administration is in Tønsberg.Vestfold is located west of the Oslofjord, as the name indicates. It includes many smaller, but well-known towns in Norway, such as Larvik, Sandefjord, Tønsberg and Horten. The river Numedalslågen runs...

 with Svelvik

Svelvik

is a town and municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Svelvik.The town of Svelvik was separated from the rural municipality of Strømm to become a municipality of its own in 1845. The two municipalities were merged back together on 1...

. It is connected to the eastern side of the Oslofjord via Oslofjordtunnel

Oslofjordtunnel

Oslofjord Tunnel is a subsea road tunnel under the Oslofjord, Norway, connecting Hurum, in Buskerud in the west to Frogn, in Akershus in the east....

, one of the longest undersea tunnel

Undersea tunnel

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s of its kind in Northern Europe

Northern Europe

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. The tunnel is 7.2 kilometres (4.5 mi) long and connects Hurumhalvøya to Akershus

Akershus

- Geography :The county is conventionally divided into the traditional districts Follo and Romerike, which fill the vast part of the county, as well as the small exclave west of Oslo that consists of Asker and Bærum...

 county.

Hurum is located on the southern part of Hurumhalvøya, which is the peninsula

Headland

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 between the Oslofjord and Drammensfjord. The administrative centre is the village of Klokkarstua, while the most populous villages are Tofte and Sætre

Sætre

Sætre is a village in the municipality of Hurum, Norway. Its population is 3,195, of which 77 people live within the border of the neighboring municipality Røyken.-References:...

.

External links

• Municipal fact sheet from Statistics Norway
  Statistics Norway
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