Åsane is a former municipality in the old

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county in

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. The municipality existed from 1904 until 1972. The municipality encompassed the northern part of the Bergen Peninsula, roughly corresponding to the present-day borough of

Åsane Åsane is a borough of the city of Bergen in Vestland county, Norway. The borough makes up the northern part of the city, north of the city centre. Åsane is connected to downtown Bergen by the E16/ E39 highway. The E16 highway continues on ...

in the city-municipality of

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. The

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of the municipality was the village of Eidsvåg. The main church for the municipality was Åsane Church. Historically, the area was called ''Aasene'', but with spelling reforms in the Norwegian language, the modern spelling has been ''Åsane'' since about 1920.

History

The large

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existed for many centuries and within the parish existed the annex of ''Aasene''. On 1 January 1904, the annex of Aasene (population: 1,625) was separated from the rest of Hammer to become a separate municipality. The original municipality included the northern part of the Bergen Peninsula, except for the coastal areas along the Salhusfjorden and Sørfjorden. On 1 July 1914, most of the northern coastal part of the Bergen peninsula (population: 644) was transferred to Aasene (except for the far northern tip around Tellevik). On 1 July 1938, the far northern tip of the Bergen peninsula around the villages of Tellevik and Hordvik were transferred from Hamre municipality to Åsane. The new municipality was small, but over the next several decades, there was major population growth due to the growing city of

, located to the southwest, over the mountains. On 1 January 1972, the municipality of Åsane (population: 19,205) was merged into the city of Bergen (the other neighboring municipalities of Arna, Fana, and

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were also merged with Bergen on the same date).

Name

The municipality (originally the

) is named ''Aasene'' after an old name for the area ( or ). The name is the plural form of which means "rocky ridge" or "hill". Thus the name (since it was plural) means something like "the hills" or "the ridges". The whole area has been called ''Aasene'' for centuries. It likely gained that name since many of the local farms in that area had ("hill") in their names, thus the area was known as "the hills". Historically, the name of the municipality was spelled ''Aasene''. On 3 November 1917, a royal resolution changed the spelling of the name of the municipality to ''Aasane''. On 21 December 1917, a royal resolution enacted the 1917 Norwegian language reforms. Prior to this change, the name was spelled ''Aasane'' with the digraph " Aa", and after this reform, the name was spelled ''Åsane'', using the letter Å instead.

Government

During its existence, this municipality was governed by a

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of directly elected representatives. The

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was indirectly elected by a vote of the municipal council.

Mayors

The

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() of Åsane: *1904-1911: Vemund J. Tertnes *1911-1913: Konrad Meyer *1914-1919: Vemund J. Tertnes *1919-1925: Adolf Andersen *1925-1925: Johan Birkeland *1926-1928: Olav Sellevold ( V) *1929-1931: Nils Koltveit ( V) *1932-1935: Olav Sellevold ( V) *1936-1938: Anton Olsen *1939-1941: Olav Sellevold ( V) *1945-1945: Olav Sellevold ( V) *1946-1954: Olav Hordvik ( V) *1954-1955: Steffen J. Toppe ( Ap) *1956-1959: P. Leif Rutle *1960-1965: Kjeld Langeland ( H) *1966-1971: Henry Andreassen

Municipal council

The

of Åsane was made up of 41 representatives that were elected to four year terms. The

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breakdown of the final municipal council was as follows:

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