Official Name: | Vingelen |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Innlandet#Norway |
Pushpin Label Position: | top |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the village |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Norway |
Subdivision Name1: | Eastern Norway |
Subdivision Name2: | Innlandet |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name3: | Østerdalen |
Subdivision Type4: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name4: | Tolga Municipality |
Utc Offset1: | +01:00 |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | +02:00 |
Postal Code Type: | Post Code |
Postal Code: | 2542 Vingelen |
Coordinates: | 62.4172°N 10.8619°W |
Elevation M: | 693 |
Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
Vingelen is a village in Tolga Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located in the northwestern part of the municipality, about to the west of the village of Tolga. The Forollhogna National Park lies about north of the village.[2]
Vingelen Church has been located in the village for centuries. This village was the main village in the Tolga area until the 1600s when the village of Tolga grew up around a smelter that was built along the river Glåma. The people of Vingelen have historically worked in the agriculture and forestry industries.