Rygge

Rygge

Infobox_Kommune
name=Rygge
idnumber=0136
county=Østfold
landscape=
capital=Rygge
governor=Inger-Lise Skartlien (Ap)
governor_as_of=2007
arearank=400
area=74
arealand=70
areapercent=0.02
population_as_of=2004
populationrank=76
population=13,753
populationpercent=0.30
populationdensity=197
populationincrease=12.8
language=Bokmål
lat_deg=59| lat_min=22| lat_sec=29| lon_deg=10| lon_min=42| lon_sec=53
utm_zone=32V| utm_northing=6583034 |utm_easting=0597449| geo_cat=adm2nd




munwebpage=www.rygge.kommune.no

Rygge is a municipality in the county of Østfold, Norway.

Rygge was established as a municipality January 1, 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt).

Rygge Air Force station, replaced a temporary airfield constructed by German forces during World War II. The contemporary airfield, NE of the highway and main railway is situated in Rygge and its neighbouring municipality Råde. Constructed from 1952-54 and until recently it was one of the largest establishments of the Royal Norwegian Air Force. The military use of the airfield is now much reduced. A civilian air terminal Moss Airport, Rygge, was opened in early 2008.

The emblem of Rygge is the Pasque flower.Rygge is connected to Oslo by double-tracked railway, and 4-lane motorway.

The name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old farm Rygge, since the first church was built there. The Norse form of the name is not known (the oldest manuscripts from the period 1353-1528 use the form "Ryg(g)jof"). A possible (but uncertain!) reconstruction is "*Rýgjuhof". The first element would then be the genitive case of "*rýgja" f, a sideform of "rýgr" f 'lady'. (Like "ylgja" to "ylgr", both forms with the meaning 'she-wolf'.) The last element is probably "hof" n 'temple'.

If this is correct, then the word "*rýgja" most probably is referring to the goddess Freyja, since the meaning of the word "freyja" also is 'lady'.

An alternative explanation is that the word is derived from "rygg", which means "ridge", and related to place names like "Ryen" further east. The 'ridge' in question would be the end moraine that runs across the landscape here, from the other side of the fjord and stretching east through Sweden and into the Baltic. In Østfold, this moraine is referred to as the "Ra".

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times (1984). It shows a golden spur from the Viking Age, found in the municipality.


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