Mysen

Mysen is the place of business of the municipality of Eidsberg within the county of Ostfold in Norway. The metropolis is called after the antique farm of Mysen, for the reason that city is built on its ground. The first detail is mosi m 'lavatory, marsh', the ultimate detail is vin m 'meadow, pasture'. Between 1920 and 1961, it become a separate municipality. Mysen have become an unbiased municipality on 1 July 1920 whilst it become spun off from Eidsberg. On 1 January 1961 Mysen was merged again with Eidsberg. As with many other locations in Eastern Norway Mysen has grown up round a railway station, after Ostfold Line's Eastern Line opened in 1882.

Today the station is an cease forestall for maximum neighborhood trains at the jap line. Therefore, Mysen is a communique middle for inner Ostfold, with bus routes to maximum of the encircling vicinity, additionally Tocksfors in Sweden. The village had 6,084 population as of one January 2011. During the Second World War. There was a Nazi awareness camp at Mysen. One camp commandant was Hans Aumeier, who became later attempted and convicted on the Auschwitz Trial.