Sandnes is a village in
Bygland
Bygland is a municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Setesdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Bygland. Other villages in the municipality include Åraksbø, Austad, ...
municipality in
Agder
Agder is a county (''fylke'') and traditional region in the southern part of Norway. The county was established on 1 January 2020, when the old Vest-Agder and Aust-Agder counties were merged. Since the early 1900s, the term Sørlandet ("south ...
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 the ...
. The village is located on a small flat area between the lake
Åraksfjorden to the west and the steep mountainside to the east. The county road 323 runs through the village on its way to the larger village of
Åraksbø, about to the north. The small village had about 80 residents in 1845, but in 2009, there were only 12 residents living here. The village of
Skåmedal lies about to the southwest, across the lake.
Historically, the
Sandnes Church was located in this village, right on the shore of the lake, but in 1935, the church was taken down and moved to the nearby village of Åraksbø, where more of the parish's residents lived. This led to some hard feelings among the people in Sandnes, which later led to the building of a small chapel on the site of the old church.
References
Villages in Agder
Bygland
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