Gjerdrum

Gjerdrum kommune
Municipality
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Akershus within Norway
Gjerdrum within Akershus
Coordinates:
Country	Norway
County	Akershus
District	Romerike
Administrative centre	Ask
Government
• Mayor (2007)	Tobben (DNT)
Area
• Total	83 km2 (32 sq mi)
• Land	82 km2 (32 sq mi)
Area rank	396 in Norway
Population (2013)
• Total	6,267
• Rank	192 in Norway
• Density	60/km2 (200/sq mi)
• Change (10 years)	31.6 %
Demonym(s)	Gjermsokning
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
ISO 3166 code	NO-0234
Official language form	Bokmål
Website	www.gjerdrum.kommune.no
Data from Statistics Norway

Gjerdrum is a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Romerike.

General information

Gjerdrum was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt).

Gjerdrum borders the municipalities of Nannestad, Nittedal, Ullensaker, Skedsmo, and Sørum. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Ask.

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Gjerdrum farm (Norse Gerðarvin). The first element is the genitive of a river name Gerð and the last element is vin f 'meadow, pasture'. The river name is derived from the Norse word garðr meaning 'fence' and so the meaning is 'the river whose function is a fence (and/or as a border)'.

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted in 1993. The arms show a traditional Norwegian form of roundpole fence. The arms are also canting because the name of the municipality refers to a fence.

Number of minorities (1st and 2nd generation) in Gjerdrum by country of origin in 2015

Ancestry	Number
Poland	222
Lithuania	128
Sweden	57
Denmark	35
Germany	35

Sports

The local sports team is Gjerdrum IL.

External links

• Media related to at Wikimedia Commons
• The dictionary definition of Gjerdrum at Wiktionary
• Municipal fact sheet from Statistics Norway
• Akershus travel guide from Wikivoyage
• GIL football (Norwegian)