Ottestad

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title: "Ottestad" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["stange-municipality", "villages-in-innlandet"] description: "Village in Stange Municipality, Norway" topic_path: "general/stange-municipality" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottestad" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Village in Stange Municipality, Norway ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox settlement"]

Field	Value
official_name	Ottestad
settlement_type	Village
image_skyline	Ottestad kirke TRS.jpg
image_caption	View of the local village church
mapframe	yes
mapframe-zoom	11
mapframe-marker	village
pushpin_map	Innlandet#Norway
pushpin_label_position	top
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Norway
subdivision_type1	Region
subdivision_name1	Eastern Norway
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	Innlandet
subdivision_type3	District
subdivision_name3	Hedmarken
subdivision_type4	Municipality
subdivision_name4	Stange Municipality
timezone1	CET
utc_offset1	+01:00
timezone1_DST	CEST
utc_offset1_DST	+02:00
postal_code_type	Post Code
postal_code	2312 Ottestad
coordinates
elevation_m	185
elevation_footnotes
::

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Ottestad is a village in Stange Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village centre is located about 5 km north of the village of Stangebyen and about 2 km 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.

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.

Naming tradition

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.

References

References

1. "Ottestad, Stange". [[yr.no]].
2. "Informasjon om stadnamn". [[Norwegian Mapping Authority.
3. {{Cite SNL. Ottestad. Ottestad. 2025-07-02. Mæhlum. Lars. 2025-04-28
4. "Navnesøk". Statistics Norway.

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