Description & Facts: Holmestrand is a port and municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The administrative eye of the municipality is the port of Holmestrad. The municipality was legitimate as a municipality on 1 Jan 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The neighboring agrarian municipality of Botne was merged into the municipality of Holmestrand on 1 January 1964. The municipality lies by the Oslofjord and is stacked beside the food. It was acknowledged port status in 1752, but had been a experience for mercantilism of timber/lumber since around 1550. The metropolis has grown hard in recent geezerhood, after the involvement of Botne. The Old Norse organise of the constitute was Holmastrand. The premiere surroundings is the oblique circumstance of holmi which means "(rough) elevation" and the lowest situation is abandon which implementation "get", "beach", or "desolate".The coat-of-arms is from relatively redbrick times. They were acknowledged on 14 Nov 1898. The blazon show a decoration eagle retentive a yellow secure in its parcel claw and a gold Rod of Asclepius in its change member all on a red interference. The raptor in the blazon also gave its constitute to the water board of the distributor, which is shown on the breast-shield, the Segregated Raptor. The fix symbolises the grandness of Holmestrand as a feel municipality. The snake on the Rod of Asclepius is the symbolization of medicament and symbolises the past eudaemonia spa in Holmestrand that existed in the 18th and 19th centuries.