Sparbu is a village in

Steinkjer Municipality or is a municipality in Trøndelag Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Innherad Districts of Norway, region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Steinkjer (town), town of Steinkjer which is located on the inne ...

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county,

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. The village is located about south of the town of Steinkjer. The

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highway runs through the village as does the Nordlandsbanen railway line which stops at the Sparbu Station. The village of Mære lies about to the north, the village of

Røra Røra is a village in Inderøy Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is located on a small peninsula between the Trondheimsfjorden and the Børgin fjord. The village is located about north of the town of Verdalsøra and abou ...

(in neighboring

Inderøy Municipality Inderøy is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Trøndelag Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Innherad Districts of Norway, region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Straumen, Trøn ...

) lies about to the south, and the lake Leksdalsvatnet lies about to the east. The village has a population (2024) of 595 and a

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of . The village was the

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of the old Sparbu Municipality from 1838 until the dissolution of the municipality in 1964.

Notable residents

* Hans Ystgaard (1882–1953), a farmer, politician, and Mayor of Sparbu * Peder E. Vorum (1884 in Steinnes – 1970), an educator and politician for the Labour Democrats &

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* Kristen Eik-Nes (1922 in Sparbu – 1992), a medical scientist, academic, and art collector * Jarle Benum (born 1928 in Sparbu), a Norwegian politician * Torgeir Brandtzæg (born 1941), a ski jumper, two bronze medals in the

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then became a farmer in Sparbu * Mona Juul (born 1959 in Sparbu), a

Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( Norwegian or ''Utenriksdepartementet''; or ''Utanriksdepartementet''; UD) is the foreign ministry of the Kingdom of Norway. It was established on June 7, 1905, the same day the Parliament of ...

and former politician * Sigrid Ekran, (Norwegian Wiki) (born 1980 in Sparbu), the 11th-place winner of the 2012 Iditarod * Karl Morten Eek (born 1988 in Sparbu), a Norwegian footballer

References

External links

Sparbu Rail Station
{{authority control Villages in Trøndelag Steinkjer