Rødven is a village in

Rauma Municipality Rauma is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Romsdal. The administrative centre is the town of Åndalsnes. Other settlements in Rauma include the villages of Måndalen, Innfjorden, Vebl ...

Møre og Romsdal Møre og Romsdal (; en, Møre and Romsdal) is a county in the northernmost part of Western Norway. It borders the counties of Trøndelag, Innlandet, and Vestland. The county administration is located in the town of Molde, while Ålesund is the ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. The village is located along the Rødvenfjorden, just south of where the fjord empties into

Romsdal Fjord Romsdalsfjord or Romsdal Fjord ( no, Romsdalsfjorden) is the ninth-longest fjord in Norway. It is long and located in the Romsdal district of Møre og Romsdal county. It flows through the municipalities of Molde, Ålesund, Vestnes, and Rauma. T ...

. The village of

Eidsbygda Eidsbygda is a village in Rauma Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located northwest of the town of Åndalsnes, on an isthmus of land between the Rødvenfjorden and Romsdal Fjord. This village was the administrative center o ...

lies about south of Rødven. The village is notable for the 12th century

Rødven Stave Church Rødven Stave Church ( no, Rødven stavkyrkje) is a former parish church (now a museum) of the Church of Norway in Rauma Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The stave church is located in the village of Rødven. It was a church in the ...

. The church is now a museum and the much newer

Rødven Church Rødven Church ( no, Rødven kyrkje) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Rauma Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the village of Rødven. It is one of the churches for the ''Eid og Holm'' parish which is pa ...

sits across the road from the historic stave church.

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Villages in Møre og Romsdal Rauma, Norway {{MøreRomsdal-geo-stub