Øymark is a former municipality now located in Marker municipality in

Østfold Østfold () is a county in Eastern Norway, which from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2023 was part of Viken. Østfold borders Akershus and southwestern Sweden (Västra Götaland County and Värmland), while Buskerud and Vestfold are on the other ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...

. Øymark was originally a part of

Aremark Aremark is a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Fosby. Aremark was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The new municipality of Øymar ...

formannskapsdistrikt () was the name of a Norwegian self-governing municipality. The name was used from the establishment these municipalities in 1838 until the name fell out of use in 1863. The municipalities had their legal basis from two laws enacted on 14 Jan ...

(from 1837), but on 1 July 1903 Øymark was separated from Aremark to form a separate municipality. At that point Øymark had a population of 1,832. On 1 January 1964 Øymark was merged with Rødenes to form the new municipality of Marker. Before the merger Øymark had a population of 2,091.

The name

The Norse form of the name was ''Øyjamǫrk''. The first element is (probably) the genitive case of the old name of

Øymarksjøen Øymarksjøen is a lake in the municipalities of Aremark and Marker in Østfold county, Norway. See also *List of lakes in Norway This is a list of lakes and reservoirs in Norway, sorted by Counties of Norway, county. For the geography ...

(Norse ''*Øyi''), the last element is ''mǫrk'' 'woodland, borderland'. The old name of the lake is derived from ''øy'' 'flat and fertile land along a waterside'. An older (Danish) spelling of the name was "Ømark", this was changed to ''Øymark'' in 1918.

References

External links

Øymark Church
Former municipalities of Norway {{Østfold-geo-stub