Tretten is a village in

Øyer Municipality Øyer is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Tingberg. The two largest villages in the municipality are Granrudm ...

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county,

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. The village is located on the Losna lake, which is part of the

Gudbrandsdalslågen The Gudbrandsdalslågen (or simply ''Lågen'') is a river which flows through the Gudbrandsdal valley in Innlandet county, Norway. The long river runs through a large valley in Eastern Norway before emptying into Mjøsa, the largest lake in Norw ...

river. Tretten is located in the

Gudbrandsdal Gudbrandsdalen (; en, Gudbrand Valley) is a valley and traditional district in the Norwegian county of Innlandet (formerly Oppland). The valley is oriented in a north-westerly direction from Lillehammer and the lake of Mjøsa, extending toward ...

valley, along the

river in the southern part of the municipality. It is located along the

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highway, about north of the town of Lillehammer. The municipal center of

Tingberg Tingberg or Øyer is the administrative centre of Øyer Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located in the Gudbrandsdal valley, along the Gudbrandsdalslågen river in the southern part of the municipality. It is located along ...

lies about to the southeast of Tretten. The village has a population (2021) of 860 and a

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of . The village had its own sports team ''Tretten IL'' until 1990, when a merger created Øyer-Tretten IF. The village is also the site of Tretten Church which serves the northern part of the municipality. Tretten was the location of the biggest train disaster in Norway's history. The Tretten train disaster occurred on 22 February 1975 when two passenger trains collided head on. The tragedy resulted in 27 people being killed. On 15 August 2022, the Tretten Bridge over the Gudbrandsdalslågen river completely collapsed; it had beams of

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and others of

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. There were no fatalities. One vehicle driver was rescued by helicopter and the driver of a car escaped by himself.

Name

The village (and church parish) is named after the old ''Tretten'' farm ( non, Þrœttin or ) since the first church was built there. This farm is now named ''Prestgarden'' which means 'the vicarage'. The first element of the name is ''þróttr'' which means 'force' or 'power'. The last element is ''vin'' which means 'meadow'. The farm is lying close to the river Moksa, and the first element is probably referring to the stream and the waterfalls in the river here.

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Øyer Villages in Innlandet Populated places on the Gudbrandsdalslågen {{Innlandet-geo-stub

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