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Edøy
Edøy is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1960. It was located in the southern and central parts of the present-day Smøla Municipality. The old municipality originally encompassed all the islands surrounding the Edøyfjorden. This included the islands of Smøla, Tustna, Stabblandet, and the many smaller islands between the larger ones. The island of Edøya lies between the two and that was the center of the old municipality. Over time, parts of Edøy were split off to form other municipalities. At the time it was dissolved, Edøy municipality was . The Old Edøy Church and later the (new) Edøy Church were the main churches for the municipality. History The parish of ''Edø'' (later spelled ''Edøy'') was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). A royal resolution of 3 May 1873 directed that the southern Tustern parish be removed from Edøy to create ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Edøy Church
Old Edøy Church ( no, Edøy gamle kirke) is a historic parish church of the Church of Norway in Smøla Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located on the southwestern end of the small island of Edøya, just south of the larger island of Smøla (island), Smøla. Prior to the construction of the new Edøy Church in 1885, it was the main church for the Edøy parish which is part of the Ytre Nordmøre prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Møre. The stone church was built in a long church style around the year 1190 by an unknown architect. The church seats about 120 people. History The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1533, but the church was not new that year. The church in Edøy was first established during the middle of the 12th century. The stone church originally had a rectangular nave that measured about with a narrower, rectangular chancel measuring about . Interestingly, the chancel is a little crooked in relation to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edøy Church
Edøy Church ( no, Edøy kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Smøla Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the village of Edøy on the southern coast of the island of Smøla. It is the main church for the Edøy parish which is part of the Ytre Nordmøre prosti ( deanery) in the Diocese of Møre. The white, wooden church was built in a long church style in 1885 by the architects Jacob Digre and Johan Digre. The church seats about 365 people. History The church was built in to replace the medieval Old Edøy Church as the main church for the municipality of Edøy. The old church was on the island of Edøya, but this new church was built on the main island of Smøla to be closer to the majority of the parish's population. The church was completed on 21 August 1885 and on 18 September 1885 the church was consecrated. The new wooden long church has a rectangular nave and a smaller, rectangular chancel. There is a small sacristy o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edøya
Edøya is an island in Smøla Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The island lies in the Edøyfjorden between the larger islands of Smøla (to the north) and Ertvågsøya and Tustna (to the south). The island played an important political role during the Viking Age. More recently, it was the center of the old municipality of Edøy and the historic Old Edøy Church is located on the island. In 2019, archaeologists from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research, using large-scale high-resolution georadar technology, determined that a 17 meter long Viking ship was buried near Edøy Church. They estimate the ship's age as over 1,000 years: from the Merovingian or Viking period; the group planned to conduct additional searches in the area. A similar burial was found previously by a NIKU team in 2018, in Gjellestad. The island has a road connection to the island of Smøla and there is a ferry connection from Edøya to Tustna to the south. This is the only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smøla Municipality
Smøla is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Nordmøre region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Hopen, other villages include Dyrnes, Råket, and Veiholmen. The municipality is the 272nd largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Smøla is the 273rd most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,120. The municipality's population density is and its population has decreased by 2.8% over the previous 10-year period. General information The municipality of Smøla was established on 1 January 1960 after the merger of the municipalities of Edøy (population: 1,135), Brattvær (population: 1,361), and Hopen (population: 1,550). The initial population of Smøla was 4,046. The boundaries have not changed since that time. Name The municipality is named after the main island of Smøla ( non, Smyl or ). The name is probably related to the modern Norwegian words ''smule'' and ''smuldre'' whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smøla
Smøla is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Nordmøre region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Hopen, other villages include Dyrnes, Råket, and Veiholmen. The municipality is the 272nd largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Smøla is the 273rd most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,120. The municipality's population density is and its population has decreased by 2.8% over the previous 10-year period. General information The municipality of Smøla was established on 1 January 1960 after the merger of the municipalities of Edøy (population: 1,135), Brattvær (population: 1,361), and Hopen (population: 1,550). The initial population of Smøla was 4,046. The boundaries have not changed since that time. Name The municipality is named after the main island of Smøla ( non, Smyl or ). The name is probably related to the modern Norwegian words ''smule'' and ''smuldre'' w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 largest town. The county is governed by the Møre og Romsdal County Municipality which includes an elected county council and a county mayor. The national government is represented by the county governor. Name The name ''Møre og Romsdal'' was created in 1936. The first element refers to the districts of Nordmøre and Sunnmøre, and the last element refers to Romsdal. Until 1919, the county was called "Romsdalens amt", and from 1919 to 1935 "Møre fylke". For hundreds of years (1660-1919), the region was called ''Romsdalen amt'', after the Romsdalen valley in the present-day Rauma Municipality. The Old Norse form of the name was ''Raumsdalr''. The first element is the genitive case of the name ''Raumr'' derived from the name of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hopen (municipality)
Hopen is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1915 until its dissolution in 1960. It covered the northeastern part of the island of Smøla, plus the small islands to the north such as Veiholmen, Hammarøya, and Haugøya. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Hopen where the Hopen Church is located. History The municipality of Hopen was established on 1 January 1915 when the large municipality of Edøy was split into three to form the new municipalities of Edøy (population: 973), Hopen (population: 1,050), and Brattvær (population: 1,452). During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1960, the 1915 partition was reversed, reuniting the municipalities of Brattvær, Edøy, and Hopen as the new municipality of Smøla. Before the merger, Hopen had a population of 1,550. Name The municipality was named after the village of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tustna
Tustna is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The administrative centre was the village of Gullstein. The municipality is located in the present-day Aure Municipality. The municipality included the main islands of Tustna, Stabblandet, and Solskjelsøya, 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 was built in the village of Gullstein 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brattvær
Brattvær is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1915 until its dissolution in 1960. It was located on the northwestern part of the island of Smøla in the present-day municipality of Smøla. It included the area surrounding the villages of Råket and Dyrnes as well as the surrounding islets. The Brattvær Church was the main church of the municipality. History The municipality of Brattvær was established on 1 January 1915 when the large municipality of Edøy was split into three to form the new municipalities of Edøy (population: 973), Brattvær (population: 1,462), and Hopen (population: 1,050). During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1960, the 1915 partition was reversed, reuniting the municipalities of Brattvær, Edøy, and Hopen as the new municipality of Smøla Smøla is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smøla (island)
Smøla is the 19th largest island in Norway. The island is located in Smøla Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county; the vast majority of the municipality is the island. The island has a good road network across the island that connects it to many of the small surrounding islands, however, it does not have any outside road connections to the rest of Norway. The only regular ferry service is via the small island of Edøya to the south of Smøla which one can drive to from Smøla. The population of the island is mostly employed in the fishing industry or in industries that support the fishing industry. There is also a window factory on the island. There is some dairy and vegetable farming (especially carrots) on the island also. Geography The island lies to the north of the Edøyfjorden and to the west of the Ramsøyfjorden, about north of the town of Kristiansund. The islands of Hitra and Frøya lie to the northeast, Skardsøya and Ertvågsøya to the southeast, Stabbl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edøyfjorden
Edøyfjorden is a fjord (more technically, a strait) in the Nordmøre region of Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The long fjord runs between Smøla Municipality and Aure Municipality with many large and small islands on both sides. Some of the major islands include Smøla, Edøya, and Kuli on the north side and Tustna, Stabblandet, Solskjeløya, Ertvågsøya, and Grisvågøya on the south side. The fjord flows into the Norwegian Sea on its southwestern end and into the Trondheimsleia The Trondheimsleia is a strait in Møre og Romsdal and Trøndelag counties in Norway. The long strait runs between the islands of Smøla and Hitra and the mainland municipalities of Aure, Heim, and Orkland. The strait has several fjords which ... and Ramsøyfjorden on the northeastern end. See also * List of Norwegian fjords References {{DEFAULTSORT:Edoyfjorden Fjords of Møre og Romsdal Smøla Aure, Norway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Former Municipalities Of Norway
This is a list of former municipalities of Norway, i.e. municipalities that no longer exist. When the local council system was introduced in Norway in 1837-38, the country had 392 municipalities. In 1958 the number had grown to a total of 744 rural municipalities, 64 city municipalities as well as a small number of small seaports with '' ladested'' status. A committee led by Nikolai Schei, formed in 1946 to examine the situation, proposed hundreds of mergers to reduce the number of municipalities and improve the quality of local administration. Most of the mergers were carried out, albeit to significant popular protest. As of January 2006 there are 431 municipalities in Norway, and there are plans for further mergers and political pressure to do so. In 2002 Erna Solberg, Minister of Local Government and Regional Development at the time, expressed a wish to reduce the current tally with 100. The Ministry spent approximately 140 million NOK on a project to elucidate the possibilitie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
