Osen

 Osen  is a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Fosen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Steinsdalen. Osen is one of two Norwegian municipalities that do not have any non-western immigrants as of 1 January 2008.

General information

The municipality of Osen was established on 1 June 1892 when the old municipality of Bjørnør was split into three municipalities. The initial population of Osen was 1,575. The municipal boundaries have not changed since.

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Osen farm (Old Norse: Óss), since the first church was built there. The name is identical with the word óss which means "mouth of a river" (here Steinselva). Osen ("the Os") is a later finite form of óss.

History

Osen was used as a satellite prison camp during the World War Two, mainly for Yugoslavian population.

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 27 March 1987, and is a copy of an old petroglyph. The arms show a part of a fishing net placed over the shield. The arms simply indicate the importance of fishing for the community. Several different arms were designed, all with fisheries as the main theme, but the council finally chose this one, which is unique among civic heraldry.

Osen (disambiguation)

Osen may refer to:

Osen is also a surname and may be:

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