Official Name: | Atrå |
Other Name: | Atraa (historic) |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Telemark#Norway |
Pushpin Label Position: | top |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the village |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Norway |
Subdivision Name1: | Eastern Norway |
Subdivision Name2: | Telemark |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name3: | Aust-Telemark |
Subdivision Type4: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name4: | Tinn Municipality |
Utc Offset1: | +01:00 |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | +02:00 |
Postal Code Type: | Post Code |
Postal Code: | 3656 Atrå |
Coordinates: | 59.9881°N 8.7353°W |
Elevation M: | 235 |
Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
Atrå is a village in Tinn Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. The village is located at the northwestern end of the large lake Tinnsjå, about to the west of the village of Tinn Austbygd and about to the north of the village of Miland. The village lies along the river Gøyst in the Gøystdalen valley which heads to the northwest from the shore of the lake.
The village has been a church site since the first Atrå Church was built as a stave church there before the year 1200. The present church building was completed on the same site in 1836.[2]