Harestua is a town in Lunner kommune, Akershus 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 has 2318 inhabitants. Harestua is located 46 kilometeres north of

Oslo Oslo ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of 1,064,235 in 2022 ...

, and functions as a

commuter town A commuter town is a populated area that is primarily residential rather than commercial or industrial. Routine travel from home to work and back is called commuting, which is where the term comes from. A commuter town may be called by many o ...

to the capital. It is served by

Harestua Station Harestua Station () is a railway station on the Gjøvik Line at Harestua in Lunner, Norway. Situated at from Oslo Central Station (Oslo S), it consists of a side platform along a section of single track. It is served by line L1 of the Osl ...

on the

Gjøvik Line The Gjøvik Line () is a Norwegian railway line between Oslo and Gjøvik. It was originally named the North Line (''Nordbanen'') and ran between Grefsen and Røykenvik. The line was completed to Gjøvik in 1902. The Gjøvik Line was one of t ...

. Harestua maintains 6 neighbourhoods; Gamlefeltet, Nyfeltet, Vestbygda, Bjørgeseter, Haneknemoen, Haganskogen and Stryken. Harestua has a small town centre with services such as a petrol station, grocery stores and fast food outlets.

History

During the 1940 German invasion of Norway, Harestua was the location of several skirmishes between German and Norwegian forces.

Education

Harestua also has a combined elementary- and junior high school. The school has approximately 400 pupils.

Buildings

The

Harestua Solar Observatory Harestua Solar Observatory () is a solar observatory near Harestua in the municipality of Lunner, Oppland, Norway. It was used for solar research purposes from 1954 to 1986, and was subordinated the University of Oslo. From 1987 it has been a ded ...

is located nearby.

Sport

The Lunner Motorsport on Hadelandsvegen 11, to the south of the town, is a prominent motor sport venue. It includes a

motorcycle speedway Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to simply as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four clockwise, anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that ...

track that held the final of the

Norwegian Individual Speedway Championship The Individual Speedway Norwegian Championship is an annual speedway event held each year organised by the Norges Motorsportforbund (NMF). The first championship was held in 1938 in Trondheim and saw Ragnar C. Erichsen as winner. History ...

in 1998, 2000, 2009, 2018 and 2020.

References

Villages in Akershus Lunner {{Akershus-geo-stub