Trysil is a municipality in Østerdalen in the Inland with just
under 7,000 inhabitants. It borders in the north to Engerdal, in the
northwest to Rendalen, in the west to Åmot, and in the southwest to
Elverum and Våler. To the south and east, the municipality borders
Sweden. Together with Engerdal in the north, the municipality
constitutes a "bulge" on the map so that Sweden surrounds the
municipality on almost three sides. The municipality has two
settlements - Innbygda in the north and Nybergsund further south,
both by Trysilelva. The inn has a town hall, culture house,
secondary school and upper secondary school.
The municipality
is very sparsely populated where agriculture and forestry have
traditionally been the most important industries, and the
municipality has several wood processing companies. The Trysilelva
was one of the last rivers in Norway to have timber floating, this
business was closed down in 1991 - decades after most other places
in the country. Moelven Trysil (Trysil Skog) is still located with a
large sawmill by the river north of the settlement Innbygda, and
close by Coop has a building materials market. Trysil is otherwise
Norway's largest moose municipality, with 1,050 moose killed in
2004.
Winter tourism is a growth industry in the
municipality, and Trysil has Norway's largest ski resort,
Trysilfjellet. From the beginning, the facility was a cooperative
with affected landowners, and in 2005 was sold to the Swedish
company Skistar for NOK 241 million. Skistar owns cabin cabins,
lifts and accommodation under Trysilfjellet, and can thus
cross-subsidize the services and ensure high occupancy during the
tourist seasons in a way that previous owners could not. There are
31 ski lifts at Trysilfjellet (1132 masl), including six children's
lifts. The largest cottage hamlets are Håvi and Trysilfjell south of
the mountain, and Fageråsen north of Trysilffjellet.
The
inland's first development of wind power on a larger scale, the
Raskiftet wind power plant, is located on the ridges west of Lake
Osensjøen and was taken into use in 2018.
Trysil is known for
its authors (Einar Skjæraasen) and skiers (Trysil-Knut).
Trysilgutten, founded in 1861, is the world's oldest ski club, and a
civilian ski race was arranged as early as 1855, but it was not the
world's first. The municipality's motto is "Stave roof in front".
In the city center Innbygda (2,478 inhabitants), is one of the
country's oldest rural museums, Trysil bygdetun, founded in 1901.
The museum today includes farmhouses, farm buildings and
outbuildings - a total of 21 buildings that show how people in
Trysil lived in the 1700s and 1800s . The oldest building is from
approx. 1650. Bygdetunet is part of Trysil / Engerdal museum. Trysil
/ Engerdal museum is a foundation, established in 1994 by Trysil
municipality, Engerdal municipality, Trysil History and Museum
Association, and Engerdal Museum.
Trysil had direct mayoral
elections in 1999, 2003 and 2007, in 2003 Ole Martin Norderhaug
(Labor Party) received 59.9% of the votes. Norderhaug was re-elected
in the 2011 election.
The town of Nybergsund (371
inhabitants) was bombed by German planes during the attack on Norway
on April 11, 1940, when King Haakon VII and Crown Prince Olav stayed
here.