Åsskard is a former municipality 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 1895 until its dissolution in 1965. It was located in what is now the northern part of

Surnadal Municipality Surnadal () is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Nordmøre region. The administrative centre is the village of Skei. Other villages in Surnadal include Glærem, Mo, Stangvik, Surnadalsøra, Sylte, Todalsøra, ...

. The former municipality of Åsskard (historically spelled ''Aasgaard'') included the area around the Åsskardfjorden, north of the

Hamnesfjorden Hamnesfjord or Hamnesfjorden is a fjord in Surnadal Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The long fjord begins at the mouth of the Bøvra River at the village of Bøverfjorden, just east of the village of Åsskard, about northwest ...

, and east of the

Trongfjorden Trongfjorden is a fjord between Surnadal Municipality and Tingvoll Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The fjord is approximately long and is a continuation of the Halsafjorden on the north end near the village of Torjulvågen in Tin ...

. The

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was the village of

Åsskard Åsskard is a village in Surnadal Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The village is located in the western part of the municipality, at the innermost part of the Åsskardfjorden which is a branch off the main Trongfjorden. The vi ...

where the Åsskard Church is located.

History

The municipality of ''Aasgaard'' was established on 1 May 1895 when it was separated from the large Stangvik Municipality. It had an initial population of 629. On 1 July 1915, a southern district of

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 ...

(population: 114) was transferred to Aasgaard. The spelling was later changed to Åsskard. 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, Åsskard Municipality (population: 1,014) was merged with most of Stangvik Municipality (population: 1,386) and

(population: 3,534) to form a new municipality called Surnadal.

Government

All municipalities in Norway, including Åsskard, 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 Åsskard was made up of 13 representatives that were elected to four year terms. The

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breakdown of the final municipal council was as follows:

References

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