Øymark is a former municipality now located in Marker municipality in

Østfold Østfold is a traditional region, a former county and a current electoral district in southeastern Norway. It borders Akershus and southwestern Sweden (Västra Götaland County and Värmland), while Buskerud and Vestfold are on the other side o ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. Øymark was originally a part of

Aremark Aremark is a municipality in Viken county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Fosby. Aremark was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The new municipality of Øymark was ...

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 ...

(from 1837), but on 1 July 1903 Øymark was separated from Aremark to form a separate municipality. At that point Øymark had a population of 1,832. On 1 January 1964 Øymark was merged with

Rødenes Rødenes is a former municipality in the former Østfold county, Norway. The parish of ''Rødenæs'' was established as a municipality January 1, 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The district of Rømskog was separated from Rødenes as a municip ...

to form the new municipality of Marker. Before the merger Øymark had a population of 2,091.

The name

The Norse form of the name was ''Øyjamǫrk''. The first element is (probably) the genitive case of the old name of

Øymarksjøen Øymarksjøen is a lake in the municipalities of Aremark and Marker in Østfold county, Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western an ...

(Norse ''*Øyi''), the last element is ''mǫrk'' 'woodland, borderland'. The old name of the lake is derived from ''øy'' 'flat and fertile land along a waterside'. An older (Danish) spelling of the name was "Ømark", this was changed to ''Øymark'' in 1918.

External links

Øymark Church
Former municipalities of Norway {{Østfold-geo-stub