Solør District Court was the district court serving the municipalities Våler

Våler, Hedmark

Våler is a municipality in Hedmark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Solør. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Våler i Hedmark.-Name:...

, Åsnes

Åsnes

Åsnes is a municipality in Hedmark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Solør. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Flisa, which is also the largest town in the municipality with around 2,100 people.-Name:...

 and Grue

Grue, Norway

Grue is a municipality in Hedmark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Solør. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Kirkenær ....

 in Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

.

It was created in 1847 when Solør og Odalen District Court was split in two; Solør and Vinger and Odal. The headquarters were at Flisa

Flisa

Flisa is a small town in south-eastern Norway, and the administrative centre of Åsnes municipality. Its population as of 1 January 2009 is 1,561....

. In 2006 Solør District Court ceased to exist. Grue was transferred to Vinger and Odal, which was renamed Glåmdal District Court

Glåmdal District Court

Glåmdal District Court is the district court serving the municipalities Kongsvinger, Eidskog, Sør-Odal, Nord-Odal, and Grue in Norway.Kongsvinger and Eidskog belong to the district Vinger, and Sør-Odal and Nord-Odal to the district Odal...

, whereas Våler and Åsnes were transferred to Sør-Østerdal District Court.

District stipendiary magistrates

The district stipendiary magistrate is the chief justice in a district court. The district stipendiary magistrates of Solør were:

• 1847–1869 : Wilhelm J. B. Fietzentz
• 1859–1878 : Philip Henrik Hansteen
  Philip Henrik Hansteen
  Philip Henrik Hansteen was a Norwegian judge.He was born in Moss, and graduated as cand.jur. in 1840. From 1840 to 1842 he was a deputy judge in Moss District Court. Notably, he participated in what was probably Norway's last sentencing to pillory...
  
  
• 1879–1899 : Fredrik V. V. Norgrenn
• 1899–1917 : Johann Bernt Krohg
• 1917–1922 : Johan Georg Gulbranson
• 1922–1928 : Johannes Nielsen Omsted
• 1928–1932 : Søren Kristian Sætre
• 1932–1952 : Jens Roll-Hansen
• 1952–1973 : Finn Palmstrøm
• 1973–1977 : Johannes Risting
• 1977–1993 : Otto Weng
• 1993–2006 : Einar Thomesen