Nærøy () is a former municipality in

Trøndelag Trøndelag (; sma, Trööndelage) is a county in the central part of Norway. It was created in 1687, then named Trondhjem County ( no, Trondhjems Amt); in 1804 the county was split into Nord-Trøndelag and Sør-Trøndelag by the King of Denmar ...

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. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 2020 when it joined

Nærøysund Municipality Nærøysund is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Namdalen. The municipality was established on 1 January 2020 after the merger of the old municipalities of Vikna and Nærøy. The municipali ...

. It was part of the Namdalen

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. Norway's smallest

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Kolvereid Kolvereid is a town in the municipality of Nærøysund in Trøndelag county, Norway. The town of Kolvereid is located at the west end of the Kolvereidvågen bay, off of the inner part of the Foldafjord. The Norwegian County Road 770 runs through ...

, was the

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of the municipality. Some villages in Nærøy included

Abelvær Abelvær is a fishing village in Nærøysund municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is located on the small island of Store Kalvøy at the mouth of the Folda Folda may refer to: Places * Folda, Angus, a hamlet in Angus, Scotland ...

Foldereid Foldereid is a village in Nærøysund municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is located near the inner part of the Folda fjord, the ''Innerfolda'', just south of the border with Nordland county. The Norwegian County Road 770 and ...

Gravvik Gravvik or Gravvika is a village in the municipality of Nærøysund in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is located on an isthmus between the Årsetfjorden and the Eiterfjorden. Gravvika is about north of the town of Kolvereid. Gravvik Ch ...

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, Ottersøy,

Salsbruket Salsbruket is a village in Nærøysund municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is located at the end of the Oppløyfjorden, at the mouth of the river Oppløyelva. A sawmill lies in the eastern part of the village, the Oplø area in ...

, Steine, and

Torstad Torstad is a village in Nærøysund municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is located on the Kvingra peninsula, along the Nærøysundet, about north of the village of Ottersøya. The Torstad Chapel Torstad Chapel ( no, Torstad k ...

. At the time of its dissolution in 2020, the municipality was the 96th largest by area out of the 422 municipalities in Norway. Nærøy was the 200th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 5,117. The municipality's

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was and its population had increased by 2% over the previous decade.

General information

Nærøy 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 ...

). On 1 July 1869, the western island district was separated from Nærøy to become the new municipality of Vikten. This left Nærøy with 1,477 residents. On 1 January 1902, an unpopulated area of

was transferred to Nærøy municipality. During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the

Schei Committee The Schei Committee ( no, Schei-komitéen) was a committee named by the Government of Norway to look into the organization of municipalities in Norway post-World War II. It convened in 1946, and its formal name was (The 1946 Committee on Municip ...

. On 1 January 1964, the neighboring municipalities of

(population: 2,426), Nærøy (population: 2,182),

(population: 816), and the western two-thirds of

were merged to form the new, larger municipality of Nærøy. On 1 January 2018, the municipality of Nærøy switched from the old

Nord-Trøndelag Nord-Trøndelag (; "North Trøndelag") was a county constituting the northern part of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. The county was established in 1804 when the old Trondhjems amt was divided into two: Nordre Trondhjems amt and S ...

county to the new

county. On 1 January 2020, the municipality of Nærøy was merged with most of the neighboring municipality of Vikna to form the new

. The

area in Nærøy was not part of the merger. It became part of the newly enlarged

Namsos Municipality ( sma, Nåavmesjenjaelmie) is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Namdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Namsos. Some of the villages in the municipality include Bangsund, Kl ...

on the same date.

Name

The

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form of the name was ''Njarðøy''. The first element is maybe the stem form of the name of the

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Njord (but it is suspicious that it is not in the

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). The last element is ''øy'' which means "

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". Historically, the name has had varying spellings such as ''Nærø'' or ''Nærøen''.

Coat of arms

The

coat of arms A coat of arms is a heraldry, heraldic communication design, visual design on an escutcheon (heraldry), escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the latter two being outer garments). The coat of arms on an escutcheon forms the central ele ...

was granted on 22 May 1987. The arms are based on the seal of King Håkon Magnusson from 1344, on a document in which the King granted several rights to the local farmers. The seal shows the

St. Mary Mary; arc, ܡܪܝܡ, translit=Mariam; ar, مريم, translit=Maryam; grc, Μαρία, translit=María; la, Maria; cop, Ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ, translit=Maria was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of ...

in a portal decorated with fleur-de-lis, the symbol of the St. Mary. The arms show a combination of three fleur-de-lis on a gold background. The fleur-de-lis design is red, since the local water lilies generally have a red color.

Churches

The

Church of Norway The Church of Norway ( nb, Den norske kirke, nn, Den norske kyrkja, se, Norgga girku, sma, Nöörjen gærhkoe) is an evangelical Lutheran denomination of Protestant Christianity and by far the largest Christian church in Norway. The church b ...

had four parishes () within the municipality of Nærøy. It is part of the

Namdal prosti This list of churches in Nidaros is a list of the Church of Norway churches in the Diocese of Nidaros which covers all of Trøndelag county in Norway. The list is divided into several sections, one for each deanery in the diocese. Administrat ...

(

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) in the

Diocese of Nidaros Nidaros is a diocese in the Lutheran Church of Norway. It covers Trøndelag county in Central Norway and its cathedral city is Trondheim, which houses the well-known Nidaros Cathedral. Since 10 September 2017, the Bishop of Nidaros is Herborg ...

Geography

The municipality was located in the northwestern part of

county, along the

Folda Folda may refer to: Places * Folda, Angus, a hamlet in Angus, Scotland * Folda, Nordland, a fjord in Nordland county, Norway * Folda (Rindal), a river in Møre og Romsdal and Trøndelag counties in Norway * Folda, Trøndelag, a firth and fjord in T ...

fjord. It included the islands of Austra and Gjerdinga and the

Kvingra Kvingra or Kvingla is a peninsula in the municipality of Nærøysund in Trøndelag county, Norway. Kvingla is surrounded by the Sørsalten fjord to the south, the Nærøysundet strait in the northwest, and the Nordsalten fjord in the northeast ...

peninsula. Several large lakes were located in the municipality including

Mjosundvatnet Mjosundvatnet is a lake in the municipalities of Namsos and Nærøysund in Trøndelag county, Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the west ...

Salvatnet Salvatnet is a lake in the List of municipalities of Norway, municipalities of Namsos and Nærøysund in Trøndelag counties of Norway, county, Norway. With its deepest depth of , it is Norway's and Europe's Lakes in Norway#Deepest lakes, second- ...

, and Storvatnet.

Government

All municipalities in Norway, including Nærøy, are responsible for

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(through 10th grade), outpatient

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, senior citizen services,

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and other

social services Social services are a range of public services intended to provide support and assistance towards particular groups, which commonly include the disadvantaged. They may be provided by individuals, private and independent organisations, or administe ...

zoning Zoning is a method of urban planning in which a municipality or other tier of government divides land into areas called zones, each of which has a set of regulations for new development that differs from other zones. Zones may be defined for a si ...

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, and municipal

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s. The municipality is governed by a

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of elected representatives, which in turn elect a

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. The municipality falls under the

Namdal District Court Namdal District Court ( no, Namdal tingrett) was a district court in Trøndelag county, Norway. The court was based in the town of Namsos in Namsos municipality. The court existed until 2021. It served the municipalities of Flatanger, Fosnes, Gr ...

and the Frostating Court of Appeal.

Municipal council

The

() of Nærøy is made up of 27 representatives that are elected to four year terms. The

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breakdown of the final municipal council was as follows:

Transportation

Norwegian County Road 17 crosses the northeastern part of the municipality. There is a large network of bridges in the municipality that connect islands and cross fjords. Most notably is the

Marøysund Bridge The Marøysund Bridge ( no, Marøysund bru) is a cantilever bridge in the municipality of Nærøysund in Trøndelag county, Norway. The bridge crosses the Marøysundet strait and the island of Buskholmen to connect the mainland to the island of ...

and

Nærøysund Bridge The Nærøysund Bridge ( no, Nærøysund bru) is a suspension bridge that crosses the Nærøysundet strait between the islands of Marøya and Nærøysund in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located about south of the village of Rørvik. Togeth ...

which connect Nærøy to Vikna to the west. Also

Hestøy Bridge The Hestøy Bridge ( no, Hestøybrua) is a cantilever bridge in the northeastern part of the municipality of Namsos in Trøndelag county, Norway. The bridge is long and has a main span of . The bridge, together with Smines Bridge form a link ac ...

and

Smines Bridge The Smines Bridge ( no, Sminesbrua) is a cantilever bridge in the southern part of the municipality of Namsos in Trøndelag county, Norway. The bridge is long and has a main span of . Together with the Hestøy Bridge, they form a link over the ...

connect the village of

Fosnes Fosnes is a former municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 2020 when it was merged into Namsos Municipality. It was part of the Namdalen region. The administrative centre of the muni ...

municipality to the south.

Media gallery

Skrøyvstadfossen.jpg, Skrøyvstad waterfall in Nærøy Mjøsund.jpg, View of Mjøsund Torfjellet.jpg, Torfjellet; pine clad hills and narrow bays and fjords are typical here Langnes small craft harbor.jpg, Panorama of the Langnes area in Salsbruket Nærøysund bridge.jpg, View of the

References

External links

*
Municipal fact sheet
from

Statistics Norway Statistics Norway ( no, Statistisk sentralbyrå, abbreviated to ''SSB'') is the Norwegian statistics bureau. It was established in 1876. Relying on a staff of about 1,000, Statistics Norway publish about 1,000 new statistical releases every yea ...

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