Tustna is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal 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 administrative centre was the village of

Gullstein Gullstein is a village in Aure Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The village is located on the eastern side of the Tustna (island), island of Tustna. The Soleimsund Bridge connects Gullstein (and the island of Tustna) to the neigh ...

. The municipality is located in the present-day Aure Municipality. The municipality included the main islands of Tustna,

Stabblandet Stabblandet is an island in Aure Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The island lies to the west of the island of Ertvågsøya, south of the smaller island of Solskjelsøya, east of the large island of Tustna, and north of the ma ...

, and

Solskjelsøya Solskjel or Solskjelsøya is an island in Aure Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The island sits just north of the island of Stabblandet, northeast of the larger island of Tustna and west of the island of Ertvågsøya. There is ...

, as well as many smaller, surrounding islets between the Edøyfjorden and the Vinjefjorden. In 2006, when the municipality was merged into Aure, it was .

History

Tustna was originally a part of the municipality of Edøy (see formannskapsdistrikt). A meeting held on 17 March 1863 decided to build a church on the island of Tustern (which was the name of the island at that time) and thereby gain status as a separate parish within the large municipality.

Gullstein Church Gullstein Church ( no, Gullstein kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Aure Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the village of Gullstein, on the western coast of the Tustna (island), island of Tustna. I ...

was built in the village of

on the eastern side of the island in 1864. A royal resolution of 3 May 1873 directed that the parish of Tustern be separated from Edøy Municipalit to create a separate municipality effective on 1 January 1874. The new municipality had an initial population of 1,179. 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 1965, the part of Tustna on the island of Ertvågsøy (population: 85) was transferred to neighboring Aure Municipality to the east. On 1 January 2006, all of Tustna Municipality was merged into Aure Municipality. At its end, Tustna had a population of 1,006.

Coat of arms

The

coat of arms A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the latter two being outer garments). The coat of arms on an escutcheon forms the central element of the full heraldic achievement, which in its ...

for Tustna was blue with a gold

klippfisk Dried and salted cod, sometimes referred to as salt cod or saltfish or salt dolly, is cod which has been preserved by drying after salting. Cod which has been dried without the addition of salt is stockfish. Salt cod was long a major export o ...

in the center. This symbolizes the importance of

fishing Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish. Fish are often caught as wildlife from the natural environment, but may also be caught from stocked bodies of water such as ponds, canals, park wetlands and reservoirs. Fishing techniques inclu ...

for this type of fish in the municipality.

Name

The municipality was named after the island of Tustna, the main island for the municipality. The name of the island was first mentioned, as ''Toester'', on a Dutch map from 1623. It may be derived from the

Old Norse Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian, is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and their overseas settlemen ...

word which means "staff" or "stick", and in that case it is probably referring to the form of one of the mountains on the island.

Government

The

municipal council A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area. Depending on the location and classification of the municipality it may be known as a city council, town council, town board, community council, rural counc ...

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

party A party is a gathering of people who have been invited by a host for the purposes of socializing, conversation, recreation, or as part of a festival or other commemoration or celebration of a special occasion. A party will often featur ...

breakdown of the final municipal council was as follows:

References

{{Authority control Aure, Norway Nordmøre Former municipalities of Norway 1874 establishments in Norway 2006 disestablishments in Norway

History

Coat of arms

Name

Government

See also

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