Aurskog


Aurskog is a former municipality in Akershus county, Norway. The administrative centre was Aursmoen.
Aurskog was the location of the Battle of Toverud. The parish of Urskog was established as a municipality January 1, 1838. On 1 July 1919 the district of Blaker was separated to form a municipality of its own. The split left Aurskog with a population of 3.102.
On 1 January 1966 Aurskog was merged with Nordre Høland, Søndre Høland and Setskog to form the new municipality Aurskog-Høland. Prior to the merger Aurskog had a population of 3.129.

The name

The municipality is named after the old farm Ør, since the first church was built here. The last element is skog 'wood' - and the meaning of the full name is 'the woods around the farm Aurr'. Until 1918 the name was written "Urskog".