Country Norway District Fosen Area rank 178 in Norway Population 6,442 (2010) Official language form Norwegian Language | County Sør-Trøndelag Administrative centre Årnset Demonym(s) Rissværing Local time Thursday 8:26 PM | |
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Weather 1°C, Wind NE at 8 km/h, 62% Humidity Area 621.6 km² (588 km² Land / 33.56 km² Water) Points of interest Museet Kystens Arv, MKB 2/506 Hysnes | ||
Rissa is a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Fosen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Årnset. Other villages in the municipality include Askjem, Hasselvika, Husbysjøen, Rørvika, Råkvåg, and Stadsbygd.
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Map of Rissa, Norway
General information
The municipality of Rissen was established in 1860 when it was separated from the big municipality of Stadsbygd. Initially, Rissen had 3,733 residents. The spelling was later changed to Rissa. On 1 January 1905, the district of Lensvik (population: 1,019) on the west side of the Trondheimsfjord was separated from Rissa to form a municipality of its own. This left Rissa with 3,394 residents. On 1 January 1964, most of Stadsbygd (except the Ingdalen area) and the southern part of Stjørna were merged with Rissa to form a new, enlarged municipality of Rissa.
Name
The Old Norse form of the name was Rissi. This was probably the old name of the brackish basin of Botn (literally "the bottom" of the fjord). Even though this is a heavily land-locked fjord with a river-like inlet from the Trondheimsfjord (it was probably a shallow bay in prehistoric times). The name is probably derived from the verb rísa which means "raise" or "rise". (The average water level of Botnen is today about 1.7 metres (5 ft 7 in) above mean sea level and the surface water is almost fresh from accumulated internal runoff.) The name of the municipality was historically spelled Rissen.
Coat-of-arms
The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 23 January 1987. The arms show a silver crown on a green background. The crown is that of Skule Bårdsson as it is depicted on an old tombstone at the Nidaros Cathedral. Bårdsson was the founder of Rein kloster and the accompanying farm and Rein estate, which lies in the municipality. The crown is a typical headdress used by the medieval Norwegian Dukes.
Churches
The Church of Norway has four parishes (sokn) within the municipality of Rissa. It is part of the Deanery (prosti) of Fosen and the Diocese of Nidaros.
History
In April 1978, Rissa was home to a quick-clay landslide which encompassed an area of 330,000 square metres (3,600,000 sq ft) and sent 6,000,000 cubic metres (7,800,000 cu yd) of clay from the Årnset area on the shore into Botn, causing a miniature tsunami on the north shore in Leira. This slide is particularly famous because a large portion of the slide happened to be recorded on film by two amateur photographers.
Geography
The municipality is located on the southern end of the Fosen peninsula along the Trondheimsfjord and the Stjørnfjord. The large lake Storvatnet lies on the eastern border with Lensvik. To the north lie the municipalities of Åfjord, Bjugn, and Ørland.
The Flakk–Rørvik Ferry crosses the Trondheimsfjord and connects Rørvik with Trondheim.