Hafslo is a former municipality in the old

Sogn og Fjordane Sogn og Fjordane (; English: "Sogn and Fjordane") was, up to 1 January 2020, a county in western Norway, when it was merged to become part of Vestland county. Bordering previous counties Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, Buskerud, and Hordaland, the c ...

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. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1963. It is located in the present-day Luster Municipality (in

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county) in the traditional district of

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. The former municipality included the villages of Kinsedalen, Ornes, and Kroken on the east side of the Lustrafjorden. It also included the villages of Solvorn, Hafslo, Joranger, and the whole

Veitastrond Veitastrond is a small village in the western part of the municipality of Luster in Vestland county, Norway. It is located near the Jostedalsbreen glacier, and Jostedalsbreen National Park surrounds the village on three sides. Veitastrond is l ...

valley on the west side of the Lustrafjorden. The municipality surrounded the lakes Hafslovatnet and Veitastrondvatnet. The

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of the municipality was the village of Hafslo, where Hafslo Church was located.

Name

The name comes from the old ''Hafslo'' farm ( non, Hafrsló), since Hafslo Church is located there. The first element of the name comes from the old male name ''Hafr'' or from the word for "

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" (also ''hafr''). The second element of the name comes from the old word ''ló'' meaning "

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", probably due to the excellent farming areas nearby.

History

Hafslo was established as a

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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 Janua ...

law). During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the

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. On 1 January 1963, the municipality of Hafslo (population: 2,384) was merged with the neighboring municipalities of Luster (population: 2,674) and

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(population: 796) to form the new, larger municipality of Luster.

Government

Municipal council

The

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of Hafslo was made up of 21 representatives that were elected to four year terms. The

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breakdown of the final municipal council was as follows:

Notable residents

* Sylfest Lomheim (born 1945) – Norwegian

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Jens Sterri Jens K. Sterri (13 July 1923 – 1 September 2008) was a Norwegian civil servant. Born in Hafslo as the fourth of ten children, he decided to study law. He graduated from the University of Oslo as cand.jur. in 1949,civil servant The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil servants hired on professional merit rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leaders ...

Kjellfred Weum Kjellfred Weum (30 July 1940, Hafslo – 7 August 2017) was a Norwegian hurdler. He finished seventh at the 1969 European Championships. He also participated at the 1968 Summer Olympics as well as the European Indoor Games in 1966, 1967 and 196 ...

(born 1940) – hurdler

Media gallery

File:Hafslovatnet Norway.jpg, The Hafslo village area in the central part of the municipality File:Urnes ornes lustrafjorden sognefjord norway.jpg, The Ornes area in eastern Hafslo municipality File:Veitastrondsvatnet og Jostedalsbreen (0395).jpg, The Veitastrondsvatnet lake and the Jostedalsbreen glacier (northern end of the municipality File:Hafslo kirke, Sogn og Fjordane - Riksantikvaren-T284 01 0602.jpg, Hafslo Church

References

External links

* {{Authority control Luster, Norway Former municipalities of Norway 1838 establishments in Norway 1963 disestablishments in Norway