Stadsbygd is a former municipality in the old

Sør-Trøndelag Sør-Trøndelag () was a county comprising the southern portion of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. It bordered the old Nord-Trøndelag county as well as the counties of Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, and Hedmark. To the west is the No ...

county,

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. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1964. The municipality existed on the southern part of the

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, along the

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in what is now the municipality of

Indre Fosen Indre Fosen is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Fosen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Årnset. Other villages in Indre Fosen include Askjem, Dalbygda, Ha ...

Trøndelag Trøndelag (; sma, Trööndelage) is a county in the central part of Norway. It was created in 1687, then named Trondhjem County ( no, Trondhjems Amt); in 1804 the county was split into Nord-Trøndelag and Sør-Trøndelag by the King of Denmar ...

county. The

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was the village of

Stadsbygd Stadsbygd is a village in Indre Fosen municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is located at the southern end of the Fosen peninsula in a wide, flat valley, just east of the village of Askjem, along the north side of the Trondheim ...

, just north of the Stadsbygd Church.

History

The municipality of Stadsbygd was established 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 ...

). In 1860, the northwestern district of Stadsbygd (population: 3,733) was separated to form a municipality the new municipality of Rissa. The split left Stadsbygd with a population of 1,828. During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the

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. On 1 January 1964, the

Ingdalen Ingdalen is a village in the municipality of Orkland in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village lies along the western shore of the Trondheimsfjord about south of the villages of Lensvik and Selbekken. Ingdal Chapel is located in the village. T ...

district south of the

Trondheimsfjord The Trondheim Fjord or Trondheimsfjorden (), an inlet of the Norwegian Sea, is Norway's third-longest fjord at long. It is located in the west-central part of the country in Trøndelag county, and it stretches from the municipality of Ørland in ...

(population: 171) was merged into the municipality of

Agdenes Agdenes is a former municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1896 until its dissolution in 2020 when it became part of Orkland Municipality. It was part of the Fosen region. The administrative centre was the vil ...

. The rest of Stadsbygd, north of the Trondheimsfjord, (population: 1,616) was merged with the neighboring municipalities of Rissa (population: 3,264) and the southern part of the municipality of

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(population: 1,868).

Government

All municipalities in Norway, including Stadsbygd, are responsible for

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(through 10th grade), outpatient health services,

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

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breakdown of the final municipal council was as follows:

References

{{Authority control Indre Fosen Former municipalities of Norway 1838 establishments in Norway 1964 disestablishments in Norway