Romedal

Historie

Romedal is a former municipality in Hedmark county, NorwayRomedal was established as a municipality January 1, 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). It was merged with Stange January 1, 1964.HistoryBishop Sigurd of Hamar, who died in 1418, was a native of Romedal. He had an excellent reputation, as reported in "The Hamar Chronicle" of 1553.Kristen Steffensen Bang was priest at Romedal in 1643, when he joined with Kjeld Stub to set up the first printing press in Norway, located in Oslo. Pastor Bang wrote copiously to feed his printing press and died a pauper in 1678 at the age of 98. The press is most famous for printing the Aggerhus-Acter which were accounts of the progress of the ongoing Gyldenløve War with Sweden.Priests at Romedal Church–1545 Anders1552 Bernt Paulsen1552–1565 Erik Mogensen1565–1584 Tore Olsen Hummer1584–1618 Kjeld Torgersen1621–1655 Christen Steffensen Bang1657–1665 Nils Christensen Hover1665–1674 Johan Borchardsen Madfeld1674–1724 Isak Andersen Cold... –1825 Peter Grüner Mandall (1749–1829)1826–1852 Ole Christian Sang (1778–1852)1853–1864 August Thorvald Deinboll (f. 1810)1864–1871 Christian Bastholm Heltberg (1809–71)1872– Wilhelm Julius Just Gedde (f. 1818)... –2006 Anne Marie Dahl MustardThe nameThe Norse form of the name was Ruðmudalr. The first element is (probably) the genitive case of an old river name (*Ruðma), the last element is dalr m 'valley, dale'.