Søndeled is a former municipality in the old Aust-Agder

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. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1964 when it was merged into the municipality of

Risør is a municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located on the Skagerrak coast in the traditional region of Sørlandet. The administrative centre of Risør municipality is the town of Risør. There are many villages in Risør such as Akland, ...

in what is now

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county. The municipality encompassed the land around the

Søndeledfjorden Søndeledfjorden is a fjord in Risør municipality in Agder county, Norway. The long fjord begins at the village of Søndeled and flows east into the Skaggerak. The large island of Barmen sits in the middle of the fjord, effectively separating i ...

. The

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of Søndeled was the village of

Søndeled Søndeled is a former municipality in the old Aust-Agder county in Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1964 when it was merged into the municipality of Risør in what is now Agder county. The municipality enco ...

at the innermost part of the

. Other villages in Søndeled included

Stamsø Stamsø or Stamsøy is a village in Risør municipality in Agder county, Norway. The village is located along the north shore of the Søndeledfjordne, about east of the village of Søndeled and about west of the village of Sivik Sivik is a v ...

Akland Akland is a village in Risør municipality in Agder county, Norway. The village is located at the southwestern end of the Søndeledfjorden. The village sits at the junction of the European route E18 highway, the Norwegian County Road 416, and the ...

, Moen,

Bossvika Bossvika is a village in Risør municipality in Agder county, Norway. The village is located along the southern shore of the Søndeledfjorden. The village lies at the junction of the Norwegian County Road 416 Norwegian county road 416 (Fv41 ...

, and

Sivik Sivik is a village in Risør municipality in Agder county, Norway. The village is located along the northern shore of the Søndeledfjorden Søndeledfjorden is a fjord in Risør municipality in Agder county, Norway. The long fjord begins at the ...

. The main churches for Søndeled municipality were Indre Søndeled Church in the village of

and Ytre Søndeled Church in the east, just outside of the town of Risør.

History

The municipality of ''Østerrisør landdistrikt'' was created 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). It was called ''Østerrisør'' (East Risør) to distinguish itself from the municipality of ''Vesterrisør'' ("West Risør" in

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) and the neighboring town of Østerrisør. In 1865, the name was changed to ''Søndeled''. On 1 January 1867, an uninhabited part of Søndeled was transferred to the neighboring municipality of Dybvaag. Later, on 1 January 1901, a small urban area of eastern Søndeled (population: 658) was transferred to the neighboring town of Risør. 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 municipality of Søndeled (population: 3,134) was merged with the town of Risør (population: 3,002) to become the municipality of

Name

The municipality (originally the

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) is named after the local

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( non, Sundaleiðr, now called the

). The first element comes from the word ''sundene'' which means "

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s" and the last element is ''led'' ( non, leið) which means "path" or "way". Hence the name is the "path between the straits".

Government

The

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of Søndeled was made up of 25 representatives that were elected to four year terms. The

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breakdown of the final municipal council was as follows:

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