Askim

Askim is a metropolis and a municipality in Ostfold. It borders west and north to Spydeberg, inside the northeast to Trogstad and southeast to Eidsberg and inside the south to Skiptvet. The city acquired town repute in 1996 and has 14 402 population as of 1 January 2018. The town has an lively cultural building built in a purposeful style that changed into renovated a few years in the past. Askim has movie theaters, one among which is a certified THX cinema. The water park Ostfoldbadet is centrally placed within the city, and the doorway area is hooked up with the Kulturhuset in a quietly adapted new constructing.

The Cultural Festival the Kraftfestivalen brings collectively individuals every month from a ways and close to, a way of life for that purpose is the hole concert within the old turbine hall at Kraftverket at Kykkelsrud. Viking-Askim becomes, till the closure in 1992, the cornerstone agency within the small community, which has due to the fact largely evolved the provider industries. Glava is now the cornerstone commercial enterprise in Askim. Glomma paperwork a natural municipality border in the west, and waterfalls have been utilized for energy manufacturing. Askim consequently has 3 massive energy vegetation inside its borders.