Tveit is a village and surrounding district in

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borough in the city of

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county,

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. The Tveit district is located in the northeastern part of Kristiansand, northeast of the

Topdalsfjorden Topdalsfjorden or Tofdalsfjorden is a fjord in the municipality of Kristiansand in Agder county, Norway. The long fjord runs from the village of Ålefjær south to the city centre of Kristiansand. The river Topdalselva empties into the fjord at ...

along the lower part of the

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river. Tveit is the site of the main airport for

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: Kristiansand Airport, Kjevik. The district was the separate municipality of

Tveit Tveit is a village and surrounding district in Oddernes borough in the city of Kristiansand in Agder county, Norway. The Tveit district is located in the northeastern part of Kristiansand, northeast of the Topdalsfjorden along the lower part of t ...

from 1838 until it was merged into Kristiansand in 1965. The village of Tveit lies along the Tovdalselva river, about northeast of the airport. Tveit Church is located in the village. The stone church was built in the 12th century, and it is the oldest building in the village. The village has a population (2016) of 1,418 which gives the village a

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of .

Name

The district (originally the

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) was named after the old ''Tveit'' farm (), since the Tveit Church was built there. The name is identical with the word which means 'a piece of cleared land cut from a

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'. The name spelled differently over the centuries: ''Tved'', ''Thvet'', and ''Tveid''.

Sports

In 2010, the Kristiansand City Council had a vote on which district should have a new sports hall. The 2 finalists were Tveit and Randesund. In a final bid to win the facility, the people from Tveit launched a supporters meeting outside the council offices with about 300 attendees. Randesund supporters were also there numbering about 10. The same day it was announced that Tveit had won the bid. Therefore, a new Tveit sports hall will be built in the coming years with a budget of . Currently there is a small sports hall in Tveit at the Ve School which is used by various organisations. Th
Tveit Skisenter
is also the largest ski resort in Kristiansand. It even has ski escalators.

Transportation

Politics

The 10 largest political parties in Tveit

Neighbourhoods

* Boen * Bjørndalen * Brattvollsheia * Drangsholt * Dønnestad * Foss * Grødum * Hamre * Hamreheia * Hamresanden * Kjevik * Kråkebumoen * Ryen * Solsletta * Topdalen * Ve

Media gallery

File:Tveit-kirke.JPG, Tveit Church from the 12th century File:Hamre-5.jpg, Hamre File:Hamre-1.jpg, Hamreheia File:Hamre-2.jpg, Hamreheia File:Tveit-1.jpg, Ryen File:Tveit-5.jpg, Kilåsen File:Tveit-7.jpg, Solsletta File:Tveit-8.JPG, Ve File:Kjevik-Hamresanden.jpg, Kjevik Airport seen from Hamresanden File:Tovdalselva 01.jpg, Topdalselva with Kristiansand Airport, Kjevik in the background

Notable residents

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(1899–1973), a

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Marcus Gjøe Rosenkrantz Marcus Gjøe Rosenkrantz (25 January 176211 May 1838) was a Norwegian Government Minister and Member of Parliament. Biography Marcus Gjøe Rosenkrantz was born at Vigvoll, Tveit near Kristiansand, Norway. His father, Otto Christian Rosenkrantz, ...

, the

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from 1814 to 1815 *Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard (born 1968).

Notable visitor

*Former

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(1911–1978), had family ties to the area, and visited relatives here in 1951 and 1969, and is honored by a memorial stone near Tveit Church.