Valsøyfjord is a former municipality that was located in

Møre og Romsdal Møre og Romsdal (; en, Møre and Romsdal) is a county in the northernmost part of Western Norway. It borders the counties of Trøndelag, Innlandet, and Vestland. The county administration is located in the town of Molde, while Ålesund is the ...

county,

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. The municipality existed from 1894 until 1965. The municipality included the land surrounding the

Valsøyfjorden Valsøyfjorden is a fjord in Heim Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is a fjord arm off of the Arasvikfjord and it runs south past the island of Valsøya. The villages along the fjord include Engan, Hjellnes, and Valsøybotnen. Th ...

and its entrance at the

Arasvikfjorden Arasvikfjord or Arasvikfjorden ( en, Arasvik Fjord) is a fjord in Møre og Romsdal and Trøndelag counties in Norway. The fjord is located between Aure Municipality (in Møre og Romsdal ...

in the present-day municipalities of Aure (in

county) and

Heim Heim is the German, Norwegian, Icelandic and Faroese equivalent of the English word ''home''. It is a common German and Norwegian suffix in place names such as Mannheim and Trondheim. In Norwegian place names, the suffix is often weakened to just ...

(now 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 ...

county). It included a small part of island of Ertvågøya and the whole island of Valsøya as well on the mainland. The main church for the municipality, Valsøyfjord Church was located in the village of

Valsøyfjord Valsøyfjord is a village in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is located along the Arasvikfjorden, just west of the Valsøyfjorden. The European route E39 highway runs through the village, just west of the Valsøy Bridge. There are about ...

. The

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was the village of Engan. Other villages in the municipality included Arasvika,

Valsøybotnen Valsøybotnen is a village in Heim Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is located at the end of the Valsøyfjorden, about south of the village of Hjellnes and about southeast of the village of Liabøen. The area was once par ...

, and Hjellnes.

History

The municipality of Valsøyfjord was established on 1 January 1894 when the larger

Aure Municipality Aure is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the region of Nordmøre. The administrative centre is the village of Aure. Other villages in Aure include Gullstein, Stemshaug, Todalen, Tjeldbergodden, Arasvika, and ...

was divided into two municipalities: Aure (population: 3,245) in the north and Valsøyfjord (population: 942) in the south. 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, Valsøyfjord municipality was abolished and its land was divided between two neighboring municipalities. The parts of Valsøyfjord on the island of Ertvågøya (population: 141) was merged with

and the rest of Valsøyfjord (population: 1,104) was merged with

Halsa Municipality Halsa is a List of former municipalities of Norway, former municipality in Møre og Romsdal Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until 2020 when it became part of Heim Municipality in Trondelag county. It was par ...

Government

All municipalities in Norway, including Valsøyfjord, are responsible for

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(through 10th grade), outpatient

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services,

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and other

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, and municipal

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s. The municipality is governed by a

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representatives, which in turn elects a

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Municipal council

The

of Valsøyfjord was made up of 17 representatives that were elected to four year terms. The

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breakdown of the final municipal council was as follows:

Media gallery

Enge i Valsøyfjord - Det gamle kommunehuset.jpg, Old municipal government house in Engan Valøyfjord i Halsa.jpg, View of the

Valsoyfjord-Halsa-norway.JPG, Valsøyfjord Church Valsøyfjord kirke.jpg, Valsøyfjord Church Valsøyfjord kraftverk.JPG, Valsøyfjord power station

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Valsoyfjord (municipality) Aure, Norway Former municipalities of Norway 1894 establishments in Norway 1965 disestablishments in Norway Heim, Norway