Tveit

This article is about the district in Kristiansand, Norway. For other uses, see Tveit (disambiguation).

Tveit is a village and surrounding district in Oddernes borough in the city of Kristiansand in Agder county, Norway. The Tveit district is located in the northeastern part of Kristiansand, northeast of the Topdalsfjorden along the lower part of the Tovdalselva river. Tveit is the site of the main airport for Southern Norway: Kristiansand Airport, Kjevik. The district was the separate municipality of Tveit from 1838 until it was merged into Kristiansand in 1965.

District Tveit
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Coordinates: 58.2236°N 08.1098°E / 58.2236; 08.1098
Country	Norway
Region	Southern Norway
County	Agder
City	Kristiansand
Boroughs	Oddernes
Elevation [1]	33 m (108 ft)
Population  (2014)
• Total	2,000
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	NO-030112
Website	kristiansand.kommune.no

The village of Tveit lies along the Tovdalselva river, about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) northeast of the airport. Tveit Church is located in the village. The stone church was built in the 12th century, and it is the oldest building in the village. The 1-square-kilometre (250-acre) village has a population (2016) of 1,418 which gives the village a population density of 1,418 inhabitants per square kilometre (3,670/sq mi).^[2]

Name

The district (originally the parish) was named after the old Tveit farm (Old Norse: Þveit), since the Tveit Church was built there. The name is identical with the word þveit which means 'a piece of cleared land cut from a forest'.^[3] The name spelled differently over the centuries: Tved, Thvet, and Tveid.^[4]

Sports

In 2010, the Kristiansand City Council had a vote on which district should have a new sports hall. The 2 finalists were Tveit and Randesund. In a final bid to win the facility, the people from Tveit launched a supporters meeting outside the council offices with about 300 attendees. Randesund supporters were also there numbering about 10. The same day it was announced that Tveit had won the bid. Therefore, a new Tveit sports hall will be built in the coming years^{[needs update]} with a budget of 20 million kr. Currently there is a small sports hall in Tveit at the Ve School which is used by various organisations.^{[citation needed]}

The Tveit Skisenter is also the largest ski resort in Kristiansand.^{[citation needed]} It even has ski escalators.^{[citation needed]}

Transportation

Bus transportation from/through Tveit

Line	Destination [5]
35	Kjevik-Brattvollshei - Kristiansand
35	Kjevik-Brattvollshei o/ Grødum - Kristiansand
36	Tveit-Grødum - Kristiansand
36	Tveit-Grødum - Ve
36	Tveit-Grødum o/ Kjevik - Rona
37	Birkeland - Kristiansand
37	Birkeland o/ Dønnestad - Kristiansand
220	Solsetta/Grødum/Dønnestad - Ve
FLY	Kristiansand Airport, Kjevik - Kristiansand

Politics

The 10 largest political parties in Tveit As of 2015:^[update][6]

Kristiansand City Council

Party		Percent of votes	Votes
	Labour	26.8%	288
	Conservative	24.2%	260
	Christian Democratic	12.4%	133
	Progress	12.4%	127
	Norway Democrats	11.8%	88
	Liberal	8.2%	38
	Green	3.5%	37
	Pensioners' Party	2.7%	33
	Socialist Left	1.7%	29
	The Christians	0.9%	10
	Others	1.6%	17
Total		99.7%	1060

Neighbourhoods

• Boen
• Bjørndalen
• Brattvollsheia
• Drangsholt
• Dønnestad
• Foss
• Grødum
• Hamre
• Hamreheia
• Hamresanden
• Kjevik
• Kråkebumoen
• Ryen
• Solsletta
• Topdalen
• Ve

Media gallery

• 
  Tveit Church from the 12th century
• 
  Hamre
• 
  Hamreheia
• 
  Hamreheia
• 
  Ryen
• 
  Kilåsen
• 
  Solsletta
• 
  Ve
• 
  Kjevik Airport seen from Hamresanden
• 
  Topdalselva with Kristiansand Airport, Kjevik in the background

Notable residents

• Bernt Balchen (1899–1973), a Norwegian American aviator
• Marcus Gjøe Rosenkrantz, the First Minister of Norway from 1814 to 1815
• Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard (born 1968).

Notable visitor

The Hubert Humphrey Memorial in Tveit.

• Former Vice President of the United States, Hubert Humphrey (1911–1978), had family ties to the area, and visited relatives here in 1951 and 1969, and is honored by a memorial stone near Tveit Church.

References

1. "Tveit, Kristiansand (Vest-Agder)". yr.no. Retrieved 2017-01-26.
2. Statistisk sentralbyrå (1 January 2016). "Urban settlements. Population and area, by municipality".
3. Harper, Douglas (November 2001). "Thwaite". Online Etymology Dictionary.
4. Rygh, Oluf (1912). Norske gaardnavne: Lister og Mandals amt (in Norwegian) (9 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. p. 1.
5. "AKT".
6. "Valgresultat for Tveit" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2015-09-18.

External links

• Tveit Snow Ski field (in Norwegian)
• Tveit Veterinary Clinic (in Norwegian)
• Tveit Boxing Club (in Norwegian)
• Tveit Sports Association (in Norwegian)
• Kristiansand travel guide from Wikivoyage
• Tveit Historical Society (in Norwegian)
• Weather information for Tveit (in Norwegian)