Arna, Norway

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Bydel Arna

Borough

Population
- Total (2008)
- Density

12,231
/km²

www.bergen.kommune.no/arna/

Arna is a borough and suburb of Bergen, Norway. Around 12,000 inhabitants live in this rural suburb. As it is situated behind mount Ulriken, Arna is geographically close to downtown Bergen, but it takes some time to drive there by road as there is no road tunnel as of yet. However, a train journey from Arna station to Bergen only takes eight minutes. The stations of Takvam and Trengereid are also within the borough. The borough consists of the parts Haukeland, Unneland, Espeland, Rødland, Haugland, Gaupås, Ytre Arna (Outer Arna) Indre Arna (Inner Arna), Arnatveit, Garnes, Takvam, Songstad and Trengereid.

Gullfjellet, 987 metres, is the highest mountain in Bergen.

[edit] History

Haus formannskapsdistrikt was created in 1837. The municipality was on January 1, 1870 into Haus and Bruvik municipalities, at which point Haus had a population of 4,229. The name Arna was first used as a municipality name in 1964. Before that, Arna was a part of the Haus municipality, which at that time also included part of Osterøy.

On January 1, 1964 Arna became a separate municipality, and the part of Haus located on Osterøy was moved to the municipality of Osterøy.

On January 1, 1972 the city Bergen was expanded by merging the municipalities Arna, Bergen, Fana, Laksevåg and Åsane to one. By the time of the merger Arna had a population of 11 766.

Ådna is the old name for Arna. It is today only seen in the area names Ådnamarka, Ådnavegen, Ådnatun and Ådnanipa (Ådnanipa is often called Arnanipa).