Eidsberg

Eidsberg kommune
Municipality
Coat of arms Østfold within Norway
Eidsberg within Østfold
Coordinates: 59°32′13″N 11°21′37″E / 59.53694°N 11.36028°E / 59.53694; 11.36028Coordinates: 59°32′13″N 11°21′37″E / 59.53694°N 11.36028°E / 59.53694; 11.36028
Country	Norway
County	Østfold
District	Smaalenene
Administrative centre	Mysen
Government
• Mayor (2003)	Knut Jørgen Herland (Sp)
Area
• Total	236 km2 (91 sq mi)
• Land	229 km2 (88 sq mi)
Area rank	311 in Norway
Population (2004)
• Total	10,121
• Rank	100 in Norway
• Density	44/km2 (110/sq mi)
• Change (10 years)	10.5 %
Demonym(s)	Eidsberging
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
ISO 3166 code	NO-0125
Official language form	Bokmål
Website	www.eidsberg.kommune.no
Data from Statistics Norway

Eidsberg is a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Mysen. Neighboring municipalities are Rakkestad, Askim, Skiptvet, Trøgstad, and Marker in Østfold, and Aurskog-Høland in Akershus.

Eidsberg was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The town of Mysen was separated from Eidsberg to form a municipality of its own on 1 July 1920, but it was merged back into the municipality of Eidsberg on 1 January 1961.

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Eidsberg farm (Old Norse: Eiðsberg), since the first church was built here. The first element is the genitive case of eið which means "path around a waterfall" and the last element is berg which means "mountain". Prior to 1847, the name was spelled "Edsberg".

The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 16 March 1962. The arms show a bear, which is taken as a symbol for Arnbjørn Jonsson, who lived in Eidsberg. The bear is canting for Bjørn (Norwegian: bear). He was a well known warrior in during the civil war era under King Håkon Håkonsson, until his death in 1240.

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