Kyrksæterøra


Kyrksæterøra is the administrative center of the municipality of Heim in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village was known as the "white town of the Hemnfjorden" at one time because there were only white houses. It is located at the end of the Hemnfjorden, about southwest of the village of Holla. The villages of Hellandsjøen and Heim both lie to the north and the village of Vinjeøra lies to the south. Hemne Church is located in the village. Norwegian County Road 680 passes through the village. The newspaper Søvesten has been published in Kyrksæterøra since 1994.
The village has a population of 2,526 and a population density of.
At one time, there was a shoe factory, a shipyard, a lumber mill, and fish processing plant in the area. Kyrksæterøra was bombed during World War II, but no lives were lost and there was minimal damage. Nearby, the Nazis also had a large camp for Russian prisoners-of-war.

Name

The last part of the name is the articulated form of ør 'sandbank '. The first element is the name of the old farm Kyrksæter. The first element of this name is the genitive of kirkja 'church'. The last part is the old name Soðin or Soðvin, which is a compound of the river name Søo and vin 'meadow' or 'pasture'. The name of the river is derived from the verb sjóða 'seethe' or 'boil'. The name was spelled Kirksæterøra before the early 20th century.

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