Tanem is a village in the municipality of

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county,

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. It is located between

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river and Vassfjellet approximately west of the village of

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which sits on the other side of the river. The village has a population (2018) of 1,273 and a

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of . Tanem's population has been growing rapidly. The Tanem village itself and surrounding areas provides few employment opportunities and most of the residents of Tanem commute to

to work.

Location

The village of Tanem lies at the foot of Vassfjellet and stretches westwards almost down to the river

. Vassfjellet and the forested areas around the village provides ample room for outdoors activities, like

hiking Hiking is a long, vigorous walk, usually on trails or footpaths in the countryside. Walking for pleasure developed in Europe during the eighteenth century.AMATO, JOSEPH A. "Mind over Foot: Romantic Walking and Rambling." In ''On Foot: A His ...

, mountain biking, and foraging for berries. The local

skiing Skiing is the use of skis to glide on snow. Variations of purpose include basic transport, a recreational activity, or a competitive winter sport. Many types of competitive skiing events are recognized by the International Olympic Committee ...

clubs include Freidig Alpin and Vassfjellet SK. The local Motorcycle Club Sprengstart MC was founded here in 1983.

Industries

Tanem and the areas along the Vassfjellet mountain has been a large source of naturally occurring sand and

gravel Gravel is a loose aggregation of rock fragments. Gravel occurs naturally throughout the world as a result of sedimentary and erosive geologic processes; it is also produced in large quantities commercially as crushed stone. Gravel is classif ...

and during the last 30 years has seen the establishment of several large

gravel pit A gravel pit is an open-pit mine for the extraction of gravel. Gravel pits often lie in river valleys where the water table is high, so they may naturally fill with water to form ponds or lakes. Old, abandoned gravel pits are normally used eithe ...

s. This is because Tanem has been below sea level during various

ice age An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. Earth's climate alternates between ice ages and gre ...

s, and large amounts of glacifluvial residue were piled up here. Other industries in the vicinity of Tanem include logging and a water-powered electrical plant.

History

The village of Tanem dates back to before the

Viking era The Viking Age () was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonizing, conquest, and trading throughout Europe and reached North America. It followed the Migration Period and the Ge ...

. The hill today known as ''Tanemsåsen'' was fortified in ancient times, the remnants of this still exist and have been excavated. This hill gave its name to the municipality ''Klæbu'' in which Tanem lies, the name Klæbu being derived from the old ''Klæppabu'', which means "the place where people live under the hill with a fort on it".

Runestones A runestone is typically a raised stone with a runic inscription, but the term can also be applied to inscriptions on boulders and on bedrock. The tradition began in the 4th century and lasted into the 12th century, but most of the runestones d ...

have been found from this and later ages in the whole area, and one of these is the Tanem Runestone, which is listed as N KJ89 U in the

Rundata The Scandinavian Runic-text Data Base ( sv, Samnordisk runtextdatabas) is a project involving the creation and maintenance of a database of runic inscriptions. The project's goal is to comprehensively catalog runestones in a machine-readable way f ...

catalog.

References

External links

Klæbu MunicipalitySprengStart.com - motorcycle club
{{Authority control Villages in Trøndelag Klæbu