Tveit is a village and surrounding district in Oddernes borough in the city of

Kristiansand Kristiansand is a seaside resort city and municipality in Agder county, Norway. The city is the fifth-largest and the municipality the sixth-largest in Norway, with a population of around 112,000 as of January 2020, following the incorporati ...

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county,

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. The Tveit district is located in the northeastern part of Kristiansand, northeast of the Topdalsfjorden along the lower part of the

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river. Tveit is the site of the main airport for

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: Kristiansand Airport, Kjevik. The district was the separate municipality of Tveit from 1838 until it was merged into Kristiansand in 1965. The village of Tveit lies along the Tovdalselva river, about 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 village has a population (2016) of 1,418 which gives the village a

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of .

Name

The district (originally the

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) was named after the old ''Tveit'' farm (

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: ''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

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". The name spelled differently over the centuries: ''Tved'', ''Thvet'', and ''Tveid''.

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 with a budget of . Currently there is a small sports hall in Tveit at the Ve School which is used by various organisations. Th
Tveit Skisenter
is also the largest ski resort in Kristiansand. It even has ski escalators.

Transportation

Politics

The 10 largest politics parties in Tveit as of 2015:

Neighbourhoods

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

Media gallery

File:Tveit-kirke.JPG, Tveit Church from the 12th century File:Hamre-5.jpg, Hamre File:Hamre-1.jpg, Hamreheia File:Hamre-2.jpg, Hamreheia File:Tveit-1.jpg, Ryen File:Tveit-5.jpg, Kilåsen File:Tveit-7.jpg, Solsletta File:Tveit-8.JPG, Ve File:Kjevik-Hamresanden.jpg, Kjevik Airport seen from Hamresanden File:Tovdalselva 01.jpg, Topdalselva with Kristiansand Airport, Kjevik in the background

Notable residents

* Bernt Balchen (1899–1973), a

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aviator *

Marcus Gjøe Rosenkrantz Marcus Gjøe Rosenkrantz (25 January 176211 May 1838) was a Norwegian Government Minister and Member of Parliament. Biography Marcus Gjøe Rosenkrantz was born at Vigvoll, Tveit near Kristiansand, Norway. His father, Otto Christian Rosenkrantz ...

, the First Minister of

from 1814–1815 *Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard (born 1968).

Notable visitor

*Former

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(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.