Leksvik
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| County | Nord-Trøndelag | |
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| Municipality | NO-1718 | |
| Administrative centre | Leksvik | |
| Mayor (2004) | Borghild Husdal Buhaug (Sp) | |
| Official language form | Neutral | |
| Area - Total - Land - Percentage | Ranked 230 430 km² 400 km² 0.13 % | |
| Population - Total (2004) - Percentage - Change (10 years) - Density | Ranked 246 3,511 0.08 % 0.5 % 9/km² | |
| Coordinates | Template:Coor dm | |
| www.leksvik.kommune.no Data from Statistics Norway (http://www.ssb.no/english/municipalities/1718) | ||
Leksvik is a town and a municipality in the county of Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. The municipality Leksvik has a population on 3 511 (2004), 1 073 inhabitants in the town of Leksvik which is the administrative centre, and 736 inhabitants in Vanvikan. Leksvik and Vanvikan is especially known for its high-tech industries which has developed to become advanced and requested. Areas with agriculture is also widespread, but most of the municipality is covered in woods and mountains where the wildlife rules with moose, reindeer etc. The moose goes whole the way down to the heart of Leksvik and Vanvikan, where modern downtown areas with commercial and residential developments are growing.
History
The first inhabitants is belived to have moved to Leksvik some 3000 years ago. They have left several pieces of cutting tools which is now placed in museums. But Leksvik does not appear in known history before the Viking Age when the villages Leksvik and Hindrem becomes quite important in the local area. In both Leksvik and Hindrem there has been found great tombs and ruines of buildings and longboats. On Borgen, there is a hill between Hindrem and Sæter that may have been a great viking fortres, but this could also be tracks made by the glaciers during the last ice age. After the black death struck Norway in 1349, Leksvik fell into silence for some 300 years.
In more modern history Leksvik and Hindrem are small and relatively isolated villages, north of Trondheimsfjorden. Two churches stood here, a church in Leksvik and a stave church in Hindrem, but this broke down in 1655 and was replaced by a modern wooden church. In the 19th century the church of Hindrem was demolished, and a new church was built in Vanvikan. Leksvik became well known for its goats and had 5,000 of them at most. During WWII Leksvik was settled by German troops with the main camp on the top of Våttåhaugen, a hill north of Leksvik. But as a small and isolated village, nothing of great importance happend there during the war, and it was mostly peaceful although the bombs fell over Trondheim, on the south side of the fjord. After the first electrical power came to Leksvik, Bjørn Lyng founded the first industry in Vanvikan and Leksvik. After the first road was finally finished in the early 1960s, the industry grew rapidly and replaced the goats.
Attractions
External links
- Webcam showing the view from Leksvik (http://webcam.kjellberg.no) in the direction of Frosta
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Flatanger | Fosnes | Frosta | Grong | Høylandet | Inderøy | Leka | Leksvik | Levanger | Lierne | Meråker | Mosvik | Namdalseid | Namsos | Namsskogan | Nærøy | Overhalla | Røyrvik | Snåsa | Steinkjer | Stjørdal | Verdal | Verran | Vikna | |