is a municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Lister. The

administrative centre An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located. In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lu ...

of the municipality is the town of Flekkefjord. The villages of Sira,

Gyland Gyland is a village in the municipality of Flekkefjord in Agder county in Norway. It is located in the northeastern part of Flekkefjord along the river Gylandselva, just a short distance north of the lake Kumlevollvatnet. The Sørlandet Line runs ...

, Rasvåg, Kirkehavn, and

Åna-Sira Åna-Sira is a village in southwestern Norway, sitting mostly in Sokndal municipality in Rogaland county, but a small portion lies in Flekkefjord municipality in Agder county. The village is located at the mouth of the river Sira where it flows ...

are located in Flekkefjord. Flekkefjord is the westernmost municipality of the geographical region of

Sørlandet Southern Norway ( no, Sørlandet; lit. "The Southland") is the geographical List of regions of Norway, region (''landsdel'') along the Skagerrak coast of southern Norway. The region is an informal description since it does not have any govern ...

. Flekkefjord is approximately midway between the cities of Kristiansand and

Stavanger Stavanger (, , American English, US usually , ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Norway. It is the fourth largest city and third largest metropolitan area in Norway (through conurbation with neighboring Sandnes) and the a ...

, located along

European route E39 European route E39 is the designation of a north–south road in Norway and Denmark from Klett, just south of Trondheim, to Aalborg via Bergen, Stavanger and Kristiansand. In total, there are nine ferries, more than any other single road in Eu ...

and the Sørlandet Line. The municipality is the 198th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Flekkefjord is the 121st most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 9,048. The municipality's population density is and its population has increased by 0% over the previous 10-year period.

General information

The small town of Flekkefjord was established as a municipality 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). In 1942, a part of the municipality of Nes (population: 377) was transferred to the town of Flekkefjord. On 1 January 1965, there was a major municipal merger due to the work of the Schei Committee. On that date, the rural municipalities of Bakke (except the Øksendal area),

, Hidra, and Nes were merged with the town of Flekkefjord, creating a new, much larger municipality of Flekkefjord with about 8,800 people. On 1 January 1987, the Virak and Espetveit areas of northern Flekkefjord (population: 41) were transferred to Sirdal municipality.

Name

The municipality (and town) is named after the local fjord called the ''Flekkefjorden''. The fjord is named after the old ''Flikka'' farm ( non, Flikkar) that is located near the fjord. The meaning of the name is unknown.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms for Flekkefjord are rather old (compared with most Norwegian municipal arms). They were granted around the year 1855. The arms were originally proposed in 1855 and they were described as a pilot boat on the

sea The sea, connected as the world ocean or simply the ocean, is the body of salty water that covers approximately 71% of the Earth's surface. The word sea is also used to denote second-order sections of the sea, such as the Mediterranean Sea, ...

. The original proposal showed a boat on a very natural sea, all in natural colours. The present shape of the boat and the more heraldically correct arms date from 1899.

Churches

The

Church of Norway The Church of Norway ( nb, Den norske kirke, nn, Den norske kyrkja, se, Norgga girku, sma, Nöörjen gærhkoe) is an evangelical Lutheran denomination of Protestant Christianity and by far the largest Christian church in Norway. The church b ...

has four parishes () within the municipality of Flekkefjord. It is part of the

Lister og Mandal prosti This list of churches in Agder og Telemark is a list of the Church of Norway churches in the Diocese of Agder og Telemark in Agder and Vestfold og Telemark counties in southern Norway. The diocese is based at the Kristiansand Cathedral in the cit ...

(

deanery A deanery (or decanate) is an ecclesiastical entity in the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Anglican Communion, the Evangelical Church in Germany, and the Church of Norway. A deanery is either the jurisdiction or residenc ...

) in the

Diocese of Agder og Telemark The Diocese of Agder og Telemark ( no, Agder og Telemark bispedømme) is a diocese of the Church of Norway, covering all of Agder county and most of Vestfold og Telemark county in Norway. The cathedral city is Kristiansand, Norway's fifth larges ...

Geography

The municipality is located in southwestern Agder county, along the border with

Rogaland Rogaland () is a Counties of Norway, county in Western Norway, bordering the North Sea to the west and the counties of Vestland to the north, Vestfold og Telemark to the east and Agder to the east and southeast. In 2020, it had a population of 47 ...

county and the North Sea to the southwest. It is bounded by Sokndal and

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municipalities (in

county) to the west across the river Sira, by Sirdal municipality to the north, and by Kvinesdal municipality to the east. The town of Flekkefjord is located near the southern coast of the municipality in a fjord. It straddles the narrow sound which connects the Flekkefjorden to Grisefjorden. The port is ideal due to the tiny difference in tides experienced here. This is a result of its close proximity to the amphidromic point outside

Eigersund Eigersund is a municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is in the traditional district of Dalane. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Egersund. The town was known for its pottery factory (closed in 1979) and it is amo ...

. The lakes

Kumlevollvatnet Kumlevollvatnet or Kongevollvatnet is a lake in the municipality of Flekkefjord in Agder county, Norway. The lake lies along the river Fedaelva, just south of Gyland and about northeast of the town of Flekkefjord. See also *List of lakes i ...

Lundevatn Lundevatn, or Lundevatnet,The suffix "''-et''" is a form of the Norwegian language definite article and means "the". Hence ''Lundevatnet'' is equivalent to "the Lundevatn." Both forms can be found in English language text. is a lake on the borders ...

Selura Selura is a lake in the municipality of Flekkefjord in Agder county, Norway. Location The lake is located at an elevation of above sea level and it is about at its deepest. The lake lies immediately northeast of the town of Flekkefjord (t ...

, and

Sirdalsvatnet Sirdalsvatnet is a lake in the municipalities of Sirdal and Flekkefjord in Agder county, Norway. The lake is about long running from the village of Tonstad Tonstad is the administrative centre of the municipality of Sirdal in Agder county, N ...

are located in Flekkefjord. The southern coast is dominated by the Listafjorden and

Fedafjorden Fedafjorden is a fjord in Agder county, Norway. The is located in the municipalities of Kvinesdal, Flekkefjord, and Farsund. The long, narrow fjord runs south from the mouth of the river Kvina to the Listafjorden. The fjord is long and only ...

with the large inhabited islands of Hidra and Andabeløyna lying in the Listafjorden.

Climate

History

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Flekkefjord was a landing place from early times. It was mentioned as a town as early as 1580. In 1589,

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landed there before travelling overland via Tønsberg to Oslo, where he married Princess Anne of Denmark, daughter of Frederick II. When Kristiansand was founded in 1641, Christian IV wanted to assure the economic survival of his new city by moving Flekkefjord residents there. Twice it was sentenced to extinction by royal decree. But many of the Flekkefjord inhabitants remained and continued to trade. Norway's plentiful stone was a Flekkefjord commodity. In 1736 over 300 Dutch ships are reported to have carried paving stones from Flekkefjord. By 1750 the

herring Herring are forage fish, mostly belonging to the family of Clupeidae. Herring often move in large schools around fishing banks and near the coast, found particularly in shallow, temperate waters of the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans, i ...

fishery began in earnest, such that herring and timber dominated the trade. In the 1750s Flekkefjord was the most important Norwegian herring export harbor. In 1760 Flekkefjord petitioned Frederik V to grant a town charter. At that time several ships were home ported there and both sailors and herring fishermen had their homes in this small town that was not officially recognized.

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making (

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) was also an important local trade that served the fishing fleet. During the Napoleonic Wars Flekkefjord found a new life as a smugglers port, exporting oak to the

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-occupied Netherlands during the period prior to 1807. The unusual tidal condition, the local timber abundance, and a long-term relationship with the Dutch were the reasons behind Flekkefjord's then serving as a smuggler's headquarters. They specialized in the lucrative oak trade, the warship timber in those days. Ships could come and leave Flekkefjord at any hour of the day, without concern for the tides. Prior to 1807, Denmark-Norway had followed a policy of armed neutrality, using its naval forces only to protect trade flowing within, into, and out of Danish and Norwegian waters. But this changed for the last phase of the Napoleonic Wars when, in the Battle of Copenhagen in 1807, the British preemptively captured large portions of the Danish naval fleet to prevent the French from doing the same. As a result, the

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government declared war and built small gunboats in large numbers to attack the British. The Gunboat War (1807–1814) was the title given to naval conflict between Denmark-Norway against the British navy. It was natural for Flekkefjord to move from a smuggler's haven to blockade runner's headquarters. The unusual tides there were unknown to the British warships that were blockading the Norwegian coast against Napoleon-supporting ships and this provided the blockade runners a considerable advantage. After the war the Dutch maintained a strong presence in Flekkefjord, and continued exporting oak and pine. The pine was used mainly to make foundations for the boom in Amsterdam house construction; as a result most of Amsterdam's houses from the 19th century are constructed of pines from Flekkefjord exporters. A section of Flekkefjord called ‘Hollenderbyen’ (town of the Dutch) dates from the 18th century.

Xenotime Xenotime is a rare-earth phosphate mineral, the major component of which is yttrium orthophosphate ( Y P O4). It forms a solid solution series with chernovite-(Y) ( Y As O4) and therefore may contain trace impurities of arsenic, as well as sili ...

, a rare yttrium phosphate mineral whose chemical formula is YPO₄, was discovered in 1832 at Hidra (Hitterø), Flekkefjord. The herring fisheries deserted the coast in 1838, depriving Flekkefjord residents of their main export. Tanning replaced fishing and by 1866 five tanneries were operating in Flekkefjord. The Flekkefjord Line railway ran between Sira and Flekkefjord from 1904 to 1990. Flekkefjord and nearby areas are served by

Sørlandet Hospital Flekkefjord Sørlandet Hospital Flekkefjord is a local hospital in Flekkefjord in the far West of Vest-Agder County in Norway. It is one of the three main hospitals in southern Norway. Today' the hospital is embodied as a department within the Hospital of ...

that covers population needs for surgery, orthopedics, oncology, gynecology and obstetrics.

Government

All municipalities in Norway, including Flekkefjord, are responsible for

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(through 10th grade), outpatient

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, senior citizen services, unemployment and other

social services Social services are a range of public services intended to provide support and assistance towards particular groups, which commonly include the disadvantaged. They may be provided by individuals, private and independent organisations, or administe ...

, zoning, economic development, and municipal roads. The municipality is governed by a municipal council of elected representatives, which in turn elect a mayor. The municipality falls under the

Agder District Court Agder District Court ( no, Agder tingrett) is a district court located in Agder county, Norway. This court is based at three different courthouses which are located in Farsund, Kristiansand, and Arendal. The court serves most of Agder county and ...

and the Agder Court of Appeal.

Municipal council

The municipal council () of Flekkefjord is made up of 35 representatives that are elected to four year terms. Currently, the party breakdown is as follows:

Parliamentary representation

After Flekkefjord acquired market town status in 1842, it also became a constituency for elections to the

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. The first representative was elected in 1845:

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. He served for three years before

Nils Elias Børresen Nils Elias Børresen (1812–1863) was a Norwegian politician. He was elected to the Parliament of Norway in 1848, 1851, 1854, 1857, 1859 and 1862, representing the constituency of Flekkefjord is a municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is ...

was elected. He served until 1863, when deputy

Johan Andreas Kraft Johan Andreas Kraft (25 March 1808 – 1896) was a Norwegian physician and politician. He served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway in the term 1862–1864, representing the urban constituency of Flekkefjord. He sat through on ...

took over for one year.

Knud Geelmuyden Fleischer Maartmann Knud Geelmuyden Fleischer Maartmann (1821–1888) was a Norwegian politician. Biografia He was elected to the Parliament of Norway in 1865, representing the urban constituency of Flekkefjord. He worked as a merchant in the city. He was re-elected ...

served from 1865 to 1866 and 1868 to 1869, and

Elias Didrichsen Elias Didrichsen (12 January 1824 – 18 April 1888) was a Norwegian politician. He was elected to the Parliament of Norway in 1871, representing the urban constituency of Flekkefjord. He was re-elected in 1871, 1874, 1880, 1883 and 1886. He rep ...

served from 1871 to 1888, interrupted by

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who served from 1877 through 1879. Niels Eyde,

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Sivert Hanssen-Sunde Sivert Hanssen-Sunde (1842 – ??) was a Norwegian politician. He was elected to the Parliament of Norway in 1895, representing the urban constituency of Flekkefjord. He worked as a merchant there. He sat through only one term. He was mayor of Fle ...

and

Hans Sivert Jacobsen Hans Syvert Jacobsen (3 August 1836 – 28 June 1901) was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party of Norway, Liberal Party. He was elected to the Parliament of Norway in 1898, representing the constituency of Flekkefjord. He worked as a merch ...

served one three-year term each between 1889 and 1900. Then,

Cornelius Bernhard Hanssen Cornelius Bernhard Hanssen (25 February 1864 – 16 April 1939) was a Norwegian teacher, shipowner and politician for the Liberal Party. He was born in Feda in Vest-Agder, Norway. He was the son of a farmer, and younger brother of politician An ...

served from 1900 to 1921, interrupted by

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in the years 1916 through 1918. A law change in 1919 repelled Flekkefjord as a constituency of its own; from then it was a part of the combined constituency Market towns of Vest-Agder and Rogaland counties.

Mayors

Mayors in Flekkefjord typically served for one year from the start of local government in 1837. Of the notable early mayors were

Jens Henrik Beer Jens Henrik Beer (11 June 1799 – 22 June 1881) was a Norwegian businessperson, farmer and politician. He was born in Flekkefjord as a son of ship-owner and consul Christopher Beer (1770–1839) and Anne Malene Tjørsvaag (1772–1820). He was a ...

(Parliament member before Flekkefjord became its own constituency) in 1840 and Anders Beer in 1843. Many of the parliamentarians served as mayors: J. A. Kraft in 1842, 1858 and 1859; Børresen in 1846, 1849, 1850, 1852 and 1862; Didrichsen from 1853 to 1857, 1863 to 1870, 1878 to 1879 and 1883 to 1888; Jacobsen in 1889; Hanssen-Sunde from 1893 to 1899; Sannerud from 1906 to 1909 and in 1917; and C. B. Hanssen in 1933, 1936 and 1937.

Twin towns – sister cities

Flekkefjord is twinned with: * Bollnäs, Sweden (1950) *

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, Scotland, UK (1946) * Elbow Lake, United States (1973) * Kankaanpää, Finland (1950) * Misburg-Anderten (Hanover), Germany (1971) *

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, Denmark (1950)

Notable residents

Jens Henrik Beer Sr. Jens Henrik Beer (1731 – 7 August 1808) was a Norwegian businessperson. He was born in Flekkefjord as a son of merchant and sawmill owner Nils Henriksen Beer (1690–1746) and his wife Anna M. C. Eide. His father acquired burghership in 1736, a ...

(1731–1808) a ship-owner, sawmill owner and merchant *

(1799–1881), ship-owner, sawmill owner, farmer and politician * Anders Beer (1801–1863) a Norwegian ship-owner, tanner and agriculturalist *

Marie Aarestrup Marie Helene Aarestrup (1826–1919) was a Norwegian artist who specialized in genre and portrait painting. A fine example of her work is a portrait of the Swedish singer Kristina Nilsson which she exhibited in 1865 at the Paris Salon. In later lif ...

(1826–1919), painter, specialized in genre and portrait painting * Peter Waage (1833–1900), chemist and academic, developed the law of mass action *

Anders Beer Wilse Anders Beer Wilse (12 June 1865 – 21 February 1949) was a Norway, Norwegian photographer who documented Norway in the early to mid-20th century and also worked in the United States. Wilse was born in Flekkefjord, but grew up in Kragerø and dec ...

(1865–1949), photographer of natural sceneries and people at work * Marta Steinsvik (1877–1950), author, promoted women's rights, Nynorsk and theology *

Gudmund Seland Gudmund Seland (11 November 1907 – 1996) was a Norwegian resistance member and newspaper editor. Seland was born in Flekkefjord. He worked as a book printer before the Second World War, but together with his brother Johannes Seland he was involv ...

(1907–1996) a

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member and Mayor of Nes *

Nils Fuglesang Nils Jørgen Fuglesang (7 October 1918 – 29 March 1944), was a Norwegian Supermarine Spitfire pilot who was taken prisoner during the Second World War. He is notable for the part he took in the 'Great Escape' from Stalag Luft III in March 1944 ...

(1918–1944) a Norwegian

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pilot, escaped from

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, recaptured and shot *

Gunvald Tomstad Gunvald Jørg Tomstad (2 August 1918 – 12 May 1970) was a major agent of the British SIS, and a Norwegian resistance member during World War II. From 1941 to 1943, he was a mole or double agent while also operating a clandestine radio transmit ...

(1918–1970) a major agent of the British SIS and resistance member * Bitten Modal, (Norwegian Wiki) (1940–2008), journalist, writer and feminist * Kåre Drangsholt (1941–1983), boat designer and major boat manufacturer, Draco boats *

Sverre Anker Ousdal Sverre Anker Ousdal (born 18 July 1944) is a Norwegian actor born in Flekkefjord, Norway. Biography Ousdal made his debut in 1965 at Den Nationale Scene in Bergen. He worked at the Oslo Nye Teater between 1967 and 1970, and is since 1970 part ...

(born 1944), actor IMDb Database
retrieved 03 January 2021 * Eva Lundgren (born 1947) a Norwegian-Swedish sociologist, re. violence against women *

Arnfinn Moland Arnfinn Moland (born 25 August 1951) is a Norwegian historian. He was born in Kvinesdal. He finished his secondary education in Flekkefjord in 1970, served in His Majesty the King's Guard from 1973 to 1974, and graduated from the University of Os ...

(born 1951) a Norwegian historian, long jumper and triple jumper *

Tove Pettersen Tove Pettersen (born 1962 at the island of Hidra) is a Norwegian feminist philosopher. She is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo (UiO), Norway. Pettersen specializes in feminist ethics, the philosophy of Simone de Beauv ...

(born 1962 on Hidra) a Norwegian feminist philosopher *

Boye Brogeland Boye Brogeland (born 1973) is a Norwegian professional bridge player. After a successful junior career, he won three Bermuda Bowl medals with the Norwegian team, including the gold in Shanghai 2007, and several North American Bridge Championships. ...

(born 1973) a Norwegian professional bridge player

Sport

Olaf Søyland Olaf Søyland (born 28 July 1952) is a Norwegian sprint canoer who competed in the mid to late 1970s. He was born in Flekkefjord. He won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m: 1979, K-4 100 ...

(born 1952) a sprint canoer, competed at the

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* Einar Rasmussen (born 1956) a sprint canoeist, medallist at several World Championships *

Svein Egil Solvang Svein Egil Solvang (born 1 May 1968) is a Norway, Norwegian Canoe racing, sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s. He finished eighth in the Canoeing at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's K-2 1000 metres, K-2 1000 m event at the 1988 Summer Ol ...

(born 1968) a sprint canoer, competed at the

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Anne Tønnessen Anne Tønnessen (born 18 March 1974 in Flekkefjord) is a Norwegian footballer and Olympic champion. She received a gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most ...

(born 1974) a footballer, team gold medallist at the

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Eirik Verås Larsen Eirik Verås Larsen (born 26 March 1976 in Flekkefjord) is a Norwegian sprint kayaker who has competed internationally since the early 1990s. He has participated in three Summer Olympics, and has won a complete set of medals (gold: 2004 K-1 ...

(born 1976) a Norwegian sprint kayaker, medallist at three Olympics

References

External links

*
Municipal fact sheet
from

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Municipal website

Map of Flekkefjord
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