Village story
Åkrestrømmen – where the waterways meet
A living village shaped by Lake Storsjøen, the Mistra river, travel, fishing, trade, local food and the people who have created a centre for everyday life and visitors.
Explore Åkrestrømmen →Stories from Rendalen
Fourteen villages. Fourteen places with their own history, landscape and people.
Rendalen stretches across a long and varied landscape. The stories you find around Lake Storsjøen are different from those along the Glomma river. The villages have different landscapes, meeting places, workplaces, traditions and ways of life.
That is why we tell Rendalen through the places that make up the municipality. Here you can get to know the villages – what makes each one distinctive, who lives there, what has happened there and what is happening today.
A landscape of contrasts
The villages lie in different landscapes and have developed in different ways. Some are closely connected to the lakes. Others are shaped by farming, forests, mountains, rivers, roads or the railway. Several have strong meeting places and community life. Others are smaller and more scattered.
Sjølisand, Åkrestrømmen, Lomnessjøen Øst, Fiskviklia and Åkre lie in the southern part of the municipality, where Lake Storsjøen, farming and local business are important parts of the area's identity.
Otnes, Hornset and the area around Bergset contain much of Rendalen's historical and administrative centre.
Elvål, Midtskogen, Unset, Unsetbrenna and Finstad lie in the northern and eastern parts of the municipality, where forests, mountains, outfields and long distances have a stronger influence on everyday life.
Along the Glomma and the Røros Railway lies Hanestad – a village shaped by the river, the railway, the road and the people who still care about the place.
Each village will eventually have its own story and fact page. Four are now complete. The others will be developed one by one.
What makes a village a village?
It is not only about where the houses are. A village can be connected by history, schools, churches, farms, workplaces, associations, community halls, sport, volunteer work – or simply by people who know one another.
That is why our village pages are not simply geographical descriptions. They are stories about life in each place – what came before, what exists today and what may come next.
Explore the places
Village story
A living village shaped by Lake Storsjøen, the Mistra river, travel, fishing, trade, local food and the people who have created a centre for everyday life and visitors.
Explore Åkrestrømmen →
Village story
A small village shaped by the Glomma, the Røros Railway, the road and the people who still care about the place.
Explore Hanestad →
Village story
A historic centre of Rendalen, with cultural heritage, people, meeting places and the road onwards towards the mountains and Fiskevollen.
Explore Bergset →
Village story
An old farming village with roots reaching back to the Iron Age, historic farmsteads, the Unsetåa river, cultural heritage, fishing and mountain landscapes.
Explore Unset →Each village will eventually have its own page. Some will be told through history, others through people, landscape, local business, culture and everyday life. The goal is not to make them all alike – but to show what makes each one different.
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