Tveit

The district (originally the parish) was named after the old Tveit farm (), since the Tveit Church was built there. The name is identical with the word which means 'a piece of cleared land cut from a forest'. The name spelled differently over the centuries: Tved, Thvet, and Tveid. ==Sports==

In 2010, the Kristiansand City Council had a vote on which district should have a new sports hall. The 2 finalists were Tveit and Randesund. In a final bid to win the facility, the people from Tveit launched a supporters meeting outside the council offices with about 300 attendees. Randesund supporters were also there numbering about 10. The same day it was announced that Tveit had won the bid. Therefore, a new Tveit sports hall will be built in the coming years with a budget of . Currently there is a small sports hall in Tveit at the Ve School which is used by various organisations. The Tveit Skisenter is also the largest ski resort in Kristiansand. It even has ski escalators. ==Transportation==

The 10 largest political parties in Tveit == Neighbourhoods ==

• Boen • Bjørndalen • Brattvollsheia • Drangsholt • Dønnestad • Foss • Grødum • Hamre • Hamreheia • Hamresanden • Kjevik • Kråkebumoen • Ryen • Solsletta • Topdalen • Ve ==Media gallery==

File:Tveit-kirke.JPG|Tveit Church from the 12th century File:Hamre-5.jpg|Hamre File:Hamre-1.jpg|Hamreheia File:Hamre-2.jpg|Hamreheia File:Tveit-1.jpg|Ryen File:Tveit-5.jpg|Kilåsen File:Tveit-7.jpg|Solsletta File:Tveit-8.JPG|Ve File:Kjevik-Hamresanden.jpg|Kjevik Airport seen from Hamresanden File:Tovdalselva 01.jpg|Topdalselva with Kristiansand Airport, Kjevik in the background ==Notable residents==

• Bernt Balchen (1899–1973), a Norwegian American aviator • Marcus Gjøe Rosenkrantz, the First Minister of Norway from 1814 to 1815 • Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard (born 1968). Notable visitor • Former Vice President of the United States, Hubert Humphrey (1911–1978), had family ties to the area, and visited relatives here in 1951 and 1969, and is honored by a memorial stone near Tveit Church. ==References==