Hof is a former municipality in the old Hedmark county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until 1963 when it was merged into

Åsnes Municipality Åsnes is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Solør. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Flisa, which is also the largest village in the municipality with around ...

. In 1963 when it was dissolved, the municipality encompassed . The

administrative centre An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located. In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lu ...

was the village of Hof where the old

Hof Church Hof Church ( no, Hof kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Åsnes Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the village of Hof. It is the church for the Hof parish which is part of the Solør, Vinger og Odal prosti ...

is located. Hof kirke

Hof was located in the traditional district of Solør. Hof was bordered by Grue municipality to the south, Asnes municipality to the north, Våler, Nord-Odal, and

Stange is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Hedemarken. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Stangebye ...

municipalities to the west, and the Kingdom of

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to the east. The eastern part of the municipality was part of the Finnskogen area.

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) was named after the old ( non, Hof), since the first

was built on its ground. The name is identical with the word '' hof'' which means "temple" (as in a temple of the old Norse gods).

History

Historically, the

prestegjeld A ''prestegjeld'' was a geographic and administrative area within the Church of Norway (''Den Norske Kirke'') roughly equivalent to a parish. This traditional designation was in use for centuries to divide the kingdom into ecclesiastical areas tha ...

of Hof included the main parish plus the sub-parishes of Åsnes and Våler. The whole parish of Hof 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). In 1849, the two northern areas of Hof were separated to form the new municipality of

Åsnes og Våler Åsnes og Våler is a former municipality in the old Hedmark county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1849 until 1854 when it was divided into the present-day municipalities of Åsnes and Våler. The administrative centre of the municipali ...

(population: 7,087), which drastically reduced the size of Hof municipality. The split left Hof with a population of 2,913. During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1963, the municipality of Hof (population: 3,222) was merged into the neighboring municipality of Åsnes (population: 6,750). On 1 January 1969 the

Rotberget Rotberget is a village in Grue Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located in the Finnskogen district, about west of the Swedish border. History Starting on 1 January 1838, Rotberget was administratively a part of the muni ...

area (population: 23), which had been a part of Hof until the 1963 merger, was transferred to the neighboring Grue municipality.

Government

The municipal council of Hof was made up of 19 representatives that were elected to four year terms. The party breakdown of the final municipal council was as follows:

References

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