page_title: Holtålen
section_title: General information
hierarchical_section_title: Holtålen / General information
caption_attribution_description: Norsk bokmål: Bildet er hentet fra Arkivverket. Hessdalen, fjellgrend med forlatte gårder, vinter, mosehenting. NÅ nr. 2 Arkivinstitusjon&#160;: Riksarkivet Arkivnavn&#160;: Billedbladet NÅ Sted&#160;: Norge, Sør-Trøndelag, Holtålen, Emneord: Eksteriør, Gårder, Vinter, Fjell Avbildet:
context_page_description: Holtålen is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Gauldalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is located in the Ålen area of the village of Renbygda. Other villages in the municipality include Hessdalen, Aunegrenda, and Haltdalen.
  The 1,209.5-square-kilometre municipality is the 89th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Holtålen is the 282nd most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 1,981. The municipality's population density is 1.7 inhabitants per square kilometre and its population has decreased by 4% over the previous 10-year period.
context_section_description: The municipality of Holtaalen was established on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt).  In 1841, the western part of the municipality was separated to become the municipality of Singsaas.  This left Holtaalen with 1,885 residents.  Then in 1855, the southeastern part of Holtaalen was separated to become the municipality of Aalen, leaving Holtaalen with 809 residents.  The spelling of the name was changed to Holtålen in 1921.  In 1937, the name was changed from Holtålen to Haltdalen. On 1 January 1972, the municipality of Haltdalen was merged with the neighboring municipality of Ålen to form the new (present-day) municipality of Holtålen (resurrecting an old name for the area as the name of the new municipality).  Prior to the merger, Haltdalen had 778 residents.  On 21 April 1989, a small unpopulated part of the neighboring municipality of Røros was transferred to Holtålen. On 1 January 2018, the municipality switched from the old Sør-Trøndelag county to the new Trøndelag county.
caption: Farm in the Hessdalen valley (c. 1950s)
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