Rotberget is a small village in the municipality of Grue, Norway

Grue, Norway

Grue is a municipality in Hedmark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Solør. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Kirkenær ....

. It is located in the Finnskogen

Finnskogen

Finnskogen is an area of Norway situated in the county of Hedmark, named so because of immigration of Finnish people in the 17th century, the so-called Skogfinner/"Forest Finns"....

 district near the Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 border.

From 1837 Rotberget was administratively a part of Hof

Hof, Hedmark

Hof is a parish located in the municipality of Åsnes in Hedmark County, Norway.The parish of Hof consisted previously of the three existing sub-parishes: Hof church, Hof Finnskog church and Arneberg church...

. On 1 January 1963, Hof became a part of Åsnes

Åsnes

Åsnes is a municipality in Hedmark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Solør. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Flisa, which is also the largest town in the municipality with around 2,100 people.-Name:...

municipality, but on 1 January 1969 Rotberget was moved to the neighboring municipality Grue. At that time Rotberget had twenty three inhabitants.