Ottestad Explained

Official Name:Ottestad
Settlement Type:Village
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Mapframe-Zoom:11
Mapframe-Marker:village
Pushpin Map:Innlandet#Norway
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Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Norway
Subdivision Name1:Eastern Norway
Subdivision Name2:Innlandet
Subdivision Type3:District
Subdivision Name3:Hedmarken
Subdivision Type4:Municipality
Subdivision Name4:Stange Municipality
Utc Offset1:+01:00
Utc Offset1 Dst:+02:00
Postal Code Type:Post Code
Postal Code:2312 Ottestad
Coordinates:60.7474°N 11.1366°W
Elevation M:185
Elevation Footnotes:[1]

Ottestad[2] is a village in Stange Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village centre is located about north of the village of Stangebyen and about south of the village of Bekkelaget. The whole northern part of Stange, surrounding the village centre, is often referred to as Ottestad as well. Ottestad Church is located in the village.[3]

Ottestad had a station on the Dovre Line railway until 1983. The station was named "Ottestadbyen". The Migration Museum and Sanderud Psychiatric Hospital are both located in Ottestad.

Surname

Historically, the families who lived on the Ottestad farm took that farm name as their surname. The name is a protected surname in Norway since fewer than 200 people have it. In 2021, there were 197 people living in Norway with Ottestad as their surname.[4]

Notable people with the surname include:

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ottestad, Stange . 2022-03-26 . yr.no.
  2. Web site: Informasjon om stadnamn . 2025-07-02 . Norgeskart . . no.
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  4. Web site: Navnesøk . 2022-03-26 . Statistics Norway . no.