Osen

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Osen kommune
—  Municipality  —
Coat of arms Sør-Trøndelag within Norway
Osen within Sør-Trøndelag
Coordinates: 64°16′28″N 10°37′9″E / 64.27444, 10.61917
Country	Norway
County	Sør-Trøndelag
Municipality ID	NO-1633
Administrative centre	Steinsdalen
Government
- Mayor (2003)	Julla Engan (Ap)
Area (Nr. 241 in Norway)
- Total	387 km² (149.4 sq mi)
- Land	370 km² (142.9 sq mi)
Population (2004)
- Total	1,055
- Density	3/km² (7.8/sq mi)
- Change (10 years)	-15.0 %
- Rank in Norway	405
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
- Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Official language form	Bokmål
Data from Statistics Norway
Website: www.osen.kommune.no

Osen (help·info) is a municipality in the county of Sør-Trøndelag, Norway. Osen was separated from Bjørnør June 1, 1892. Osen is one of two Norwegian municipalities that do not have any non-western immigrants as of January 1, 2008.^[1]

[edit] The name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the farm Osen (Old Norse *Óss), since the first church was built there. The name is identcal with the word óss m 'mouth of a river' (here Steinselva). Osen ('the Os') is a later finite form of óss.

[edit] Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times (1987). It shows a fishing net.

[edit] References

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