Gimle is a neighbourhood in the city of

Kristiansand Kristiansand is a city and Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Agder county, Norway. The city is the fifth-largest and the municipality is the sixth-largest in Norway, with a population of around 116,000 as of January 2020, following th ...

Agder Agder is a counties of Norway, county () and districts of Norway, traditional region in the southern part of Norway and is coextensive with the Southern Norway region. The county was established on 1 January 2020, when the old Vest-Agder and Au ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...

. It's located in the borough of

Lund Lund (, ;"Lund"
(US) and ) is a city in the provinces of Sweden, province of Scania, southern Swed ...

. It is located near the neighborhoods of Oddemarka and

Presteheia Presteheia is a neighborhood in the city of Kristiansand (town) which lies in the municipality of Kristiansand in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the borough of Lund in the district of Gimlekollen. It is located to the west of Bjørndalssl ...

. The neighborhood of Kjøita lies to the southwest and the neighborhood of

Marvika Marvika or Marvik is a neighbourhood in the city of Kristiansand in Agder county, Norway. The neighbourhood is located in the southeast part of the borough of Lund and the district of Gimlekollen. The neighborhood of Oddemarka lies to the northw ...

lies to the southeast. The oldest building in Kristiansand,

Oddernes Church Oddernes Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Kristiansand Municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the district of Lund in the borough of Lund in the city of Kristiansand. It is one of the churches for the Oddern ...

, as well as the

Agder Natural History Museum and Botanical Garden Natural History Museum and Botanical Garden, University of Agder ( Norwegian :''Naturmuseum og botanisk hage, Universitetet i Agder'', formerly Kristiansand Museum and Agder Natural History Museum) is the only natural history museum on the South ...

, the Kristiansand campus of the

University of Agder The University of Agder (), formerly known as Agder College and Agder University College, is a public university with campuses in Kristiansand and Grimstad, Norway. The institution was established as a university college (Scandinavia), univer ...

, the

Kristiansand Cathedral School Kristiansand Cathedral School (''Kristiansand katedralskole Gimle''), known in Latin as ''Schola Christiansandensis'', is a high school in Kristiansand, Agder, Norway. It is the oldest high school on the southern coast of Norway, having been f ...

, the ''Gimle videregående skole'' (high school), and the Gimle sports hall are located within the neighborhood of Gimle. The

European Route E18 European route E18 runs between Craigavon, County Armagh, Craigavon in Northern Ireland and Saint Petersburg in Russia, passing through Scotland, England, Norway, Sweden and Finland. It is about in length. Although the designation implies the ...

passes through Gimle, for the most part in a shallow tunnel under the neighbourhood. Gimle was the location for the E18's toll plaza of the Kristiansand Toll Ring until this was removed in 2007. Norwegian County Road 1 follows the

Otra The Otra is the largest river in the Sørlandet region of Norway. It begins in Setesdalsheiene mountains at the lake Breidvatnet in Bykle municipality in Agder county, just south of the border with Vinje municipality in Telemark county. The r ...

River along the western edge of Gimle.

Media gallery

Gimlevang.jpg, Gimlevang Oddernes kirke B.JPG,

Agder naturmuseum.jpg, Part of the Agder Nature Museum

References

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