Øvrebø is a former municipality that was located in the old Vest-Agder county in Norway. The municipality existed twice during the 19th and 20th centuries. Originally, from 1838 until 1865, the municipality encompassed roughly the same boundaries as the present-day municipality of Vennesla. The second iteration of the municipality was only and it corresponded to the central part of present-day Vennesla municipality. The municipal centre was the village of Skarpengland. The small village of

Øvrebø Øvrebø is a rural district and village in Vennesla municipality in Agder county, Norway. The village is located about north-northwest of the city of Kristiansand. The village of Skarpengland lies about east of Øvrebø. The district of ...

is located about west of Skarpengland, and this is where the

Øvrebø Church Øvrebø Church ( no, Øvrebø kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Vennesla Municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the village of Øvrebø, a short distance west of the village of Skarpengland. It is the church for ...

is located.

History

The parish of Øvrebø was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see

formannskapsdistrikt () is the name for Norwegian local self-government districts that were legally enacted on 1 January 1838. This system of municipalities was created in a bill approved by the Parliament of Norway and signed into law by King Carl Johan on 14 January ...

law). It existed as a municipality until 1865, when it was dissolved and split into two: the southeastern part of the municipality (population: 1,103) became the new municipality of Vennesla and the remainder of the municipality became

Øvrebø og Hægeland Øvrebø og Hægeland is a former municipality that was located in the old Vest-Agder county in Norway. The municipality existed from 1865 until its dissolution in 1896. It was located in the northern part of the present-day municipality of V ...

(population: 1,829). On 1 July 1896 the municipality of Øvrebø was re-created when the municipality of

was divided into two separate municipalities: Øvrebø (population: 888) and Hægeland (population: 843). During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1964, the Eikeland area (population: 39) of Øvrebø was transferred to neighboring Songdalen municipality, while the rest of Øvrebø (population: 925) was merged with Hægeland and Vennesla to form a new, larger municipality of Vennesla.

Name

Øvrebø municipality was named after the old ''Øvrebø'' farm ( non, Øfribœr), since the first

was built there. The first part of the name means "upper" and second part of the name is identical with the word ''bœr'' which means "farm" and it is

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with the

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word ''"boer"'' which means "farmer". The name therefore means "the upper farm".

Government

All municipalities in Norway, including Øvrebø, are responsible for

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(through 10th grade), outpatient

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, senior citizen services, unemployment and other

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, zoning, economic development, and municipal roads. The municipality was governed by a municipal council of elected representatives, which in turn elected a mayor.

Municipal council

The municipal council of Øvrebø was made up of representatives that were elected to four year terms. The party breakdown of the final municipal council was as follows:

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ovrebo Vennesla Former municipalities of Norway 1838 establishments in Norway 1865 disestablishments in Norway 1896 establishments in Norway 1964 disestablishments in Norway

History

Name

Government

Municipal council

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