Øysand or Øysanden is a small village area in the northern part of

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county,

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. The village sits on the south side of the mouth of the Gaula River, at the head of the Gaulosen, an arm off the main

Trondheim Fjord The Trondheim Fjord or Trondheimsfjorden (), an inlet of the Norwegian Sea, is Norway's third-longest fjord at long. It is located in the west-central part of the country in Trøndelag county, and it stretches from Ørland Municipality in th ...

Geography

The Øysand area measures about . The Gaula River borders Øysanden to the north and east, separating it from

Trondheim Municipality Trondheim ( , , ; ), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros, and Trondhjem (), is a city and List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2022, it had a population of 212,660. Trondheim is the third most populou ...

to the northeast. To the west there is a shallow sandy beach on the shore of Gaulosen, a branch of

. To the south, the section of

European route E39 European route E39 is the designation of a north–south road in Norway and Denmark from Klett, just south of Trondheim (city), Trondheim, to Aalborg via Bergen, Stavanger and Kristiansand. In total, there are nine ferries, more than any other ...

from Klett to Orkanger crosses the area. Øysanden is a flat plain and most of the land is used for growing grain. There is also some industry there and a campground along the beach. The best-known native of the area is the musician, composer, and actor Ivar Gafseth, who is known from the television series '' The Julekalender'' and the Trøndelag Theater.

Name

The name of the area was originally simply which means 'island'. More recently, the name has been spelled ''Øysand'', which is commonly used, but ''Øysandan'' and ''Øysandan'' are also seen, but these forms are hardly ever used in speech. The

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form of ''Øysand'' in the local dialect is ''på Øysaɲɲa''. The Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority has sought to standardize the spelling of the beach area as ''Øysand'' and the village area as ''Øysanden''.

Nordstern

During the

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, the Germans developed plans to create a new German metropolis in Øysand called Nordstern.

References

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