Vassfjellet is a mountain

Mountain

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 on the border of the municipalities of Melhus

Melhus

Melhus is a village and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Gauldalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Melhus...

 and Klæbu

Klæbu

Klæbu is a village and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the southern part of the Trondheim Region, about south of the city of Trondheim. The administrative center is the village of Klæbu. The other major village in Klæbu is Tanem.The village of Klæbu is located...

 in Sør-Trøndelag

Sør-Trøndelag

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 county, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. The eastern side of the mountain hosts a ski resort, Vassfjellet Skisenter.

At the top there is a radio and television transmitting tower, which extends 220 metres (721.8 ft) above the top of the 710 metres (2,329.4 ft) tall mountain. A road leading to the top has been built for maintenance access to the tower. This road starts in the village of Kvål

Kvål, Sør-Trøndelag

Kvål is a village in the municipality of Melhus in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located along the Gaula River between the villages of Ler and Melhus. The village has a population of 471. The population density of Kvål is ....

 in Melhus

Melhus

Melhus is a village and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Gauldalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Melhus...

, but is closed to public vehicle access. It is however an excellent route for hiking.

The Vassfjell Chapel

Vassfjell Chapel

Vassfjell Chapel is a chapel in the municipality of Klæbu in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The church is located on the northeastern side of the mountain Vassfjellet. There is no road access to the chapel, but there is a hiking path from a parking lot on the Trondheim-Klæbu border.The church was...

 is located on the northeast side of the mountain in Klæbu.

Name

The first element is the genitive case of vatn which means "water

Water

Water is a chemical substance with the chemical formula H2O. A water molecule contains one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms connected by covalent bonds. Water is a liquid at ambient conditions, but it often co-exists on Earth with its solid state, ice, and gaseous state . Water also exists in a...

", "lake

Lake

A lake is a body of relatively still fresh or salt water of considerable size, localized in a basin, that is surrounded by land. Lakes are inland and not part of the ocean and therefore are distinct from lagoons, and are larger and deeper than ponds. Lakes can be contrasted with rivers or streams,...

", or "tarn

Tarn (lake)

A tarn is a mountain lake or pool, formed in a cirque excavated by a glacier. A moraine may form a natural dam below a tarn. A corrie may be called a cirque.The word is derived from the Old Norse word tjörn meaning pond...

" and the last element is the finite form of fjell which means "mountain

Mountain

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". (There is a small tarn near the top of Vassfjellet.)