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Hobøl

Field	Value
name	Hobøl
former	yes
idnumber	0138
county	Østfold
capital	Elvestad
language	Neutral
coatofarms	Hobøl komm.svg
demonym	Hobøling
or Hobling
munwebpage	www.hobol.kommune.no
mayor	Kjell Håvard Jensen
mayor_party	FrP
mayor_as_of	2007
area_rank	365
area_total_km2	140
area_land_km2	139
area_water_percent	0.04
population_as_of	2004
population_rank	214
population_total	4504
populationpercent	0.10
population_density_km2	32
population_increase	13.4
coordinates
utm_zone	32V	utm_northing=6607716	utm_easting=0609858	geo_cat=adm2nd

or Hobling

Hobøl was a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Elvestad. Hobøl is situated about 40 km southeast of Oslo. The parish of Haabøl was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt).

The largest village in Hobøl was Tomter, whose railway station is served by Eastern Østfold Line. Other villages in the municipality were Knapstad, Ringvoll, and the middle part of the municipality which is called Hobøl.

Hobøl was suggested as the replacement site for a new airport to replace Fornebu, and in 1972 the Norwegian parliament voted to build it there. The 1973 oil crisis postponed that plan, and the new airport was finally built at Gardermoen, north of Oslo.

General information

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Hobøl farm (Old Norse: Hóbœli), since the first church was built here. The first element is hór or hár meaning "high". The last element is bœli which means "farm". Thus the name means "the farm lying on a high ground". Prior to 1889 the name was written "Haabøl".

Coat-of-arms

The Coat-of-arms is from modern times. It was granted on 30 August 1985; it shows the municipality as seen from above. The municipality is mainly formed by a large valley, cut by the meandering Hobølelva river.

Ancestry	Number
Poland	207
Lithuania	129
Sweden	48
Germany	41
Denmark	36

Notable people

Sister cities

The following cities are twinned with Hobøl:

Estonia - Rõngu, Tartu County, Estonia

References

Norske Kommunevåpen. (1990). "Nye kommunevåbener i Norden".
"Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents, by immigration category, country background and percentages of the population". ssb.no.
"Vennskapskommmunen Rongu i Estland". Hobøl kommune.

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