Nes og Hidra Municipality

Nes og Hitterø Municipality
Nes og Hitterø herred
Hitterø og Nes herred
Nes og Hidra Municipality (modern spelling)
Former municipality
Flekkefjord landdistrikt  (historic name)
View on Hidra
View on Hidra
Vest-Agder within Norway
Vest-Agder within Norway
Nes og Hitterø within Vest-Agder
Nes og Hitterø within Vest-Agder
Coordinates: 58°13′28″N 06°34′43″E / 58.22444°N 6.57861°E / 58.22444; 6.57861
CountryNorway
CountyVest-Agder
DistrictLister
Established1 Jan 1838
 • Created asFormannskapsdistrikt
Disestablished8 Oct 1893
 • Succeeded byNes Municipality and Hitterø Municipality
Administrative centreNes
Area
 (upon dissolution)
 • Total
237.8 km2 (91.8 sq mi)
Highest elevation
[1]
453 m (1,486 ft)
Population
 (1893)
 • Total
3,779
 • Density15.89/km2 (41.16/sq mi)
DemonymNessokning[2]
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 codeNO-1042[3]
Data from Statistics Norway

Nes og Hitterø or Hitterø og Nes is a former municipality in the old Vest-Agder county, Norway. The 237.8-square-kilometre (91.8 sq mi) municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1893. The area is now part of Flekkefjord Municipality in the traditional district of Lister in Agder county. The administrative centre of the municipality was the small village of Sunde in Nes parish, located just outside the town of Flekkefjord (which was its own separate municipality).[4]

General information

The municipality of Flekkefjord landdistrikt was established on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt law). According to the 1835 census, the municipality had a population of 3,155.[5] The name was changed to Nes og Hitterø Municipality in 1864 (it was also written as Hitterø og Nes Municipality). On 8 October 1893, Nes og Hitterø Municipality was divided to create two new municipalities: Nes Municipality (population: 1,704) in the north and Hitterø Municipality (population: 2,075) in the south. These two municipalities were later merged into Flekkefjord Municipality during the 1960s.[6][4]

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) was originally named Flekkefjord landdistrikt since it was the rural area surrounding the town of Flekkefjord. In 1864, the municipal name was changed to Nes og Hitterø, a compound name literally meaning "Nes and Hitterø". Records show that the name compound name was also sometimes reversed to Hitterø og Nes.[4] After the municipality was dissolved, the name Hitterø was modernized to Hidra in 1917. Since then, the former municipality is sometimes referred to as Nes og Hidra, using the updated name (even though it was never called this during its existence).[7]

The parish of Nes is named after the old Nes farm (Old Norse: Nes) since the first local church (now called Flekkefjord Church) was built at that location. The name is identical to the word nes which means "peninsula", since the farm is located on a peninsula.[8]

The parish of Hitterø is named after the island of Hidra (Old Norse: Hitrar) since the first Hidra Church was built there. The name is the plural form of hitr which means "split" or "cleft" (referring to the fact that the island is almost split in two by the Rasvåg fjord).[4][9]

Churches

The Church of Norway had one parish (sokn) within Nes og Hitterø Municipality. At the time of the municipal dissolution, it was part of the Flekkefjord prestegjeld and the Flekkefjord prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Agder.[10]

Churches in Nes og Hitterø Municipality
Parish (sokn)Church nameLocation of the churchYear built
HidraHidra ChurchKirkehamn1854
NesFlekkefjord ChurchFlekkefjord1859

Geography

The municipality encompassed the Nes peninsula and the island of Hidra (formerly called Hitterø). The highest point in the municipality was the 453-metre (1,486 ft) tall mountain Solandsvarden.[1]

Government

While it existed, Nes og Hitterø Municipality was governed by a municipal council of directly elected representatives. The mayor was indirectly elected by a vote of the municipal council.[11] The municipality was under the jurisdiction of the Flekkefjord District Court and the Agder Court of Appeal.

Mayors

The mayor (Norwegian: ordfører) of Nes og Hitterø Municipality was the political leader of the municipality and the chairperson of the municipal council. The following people have held this position:[12][13]

  • 1838–1843: Kristian Tønnessen Omland
  • 1844–1847: Jakob T. Olsen Allestad
  • 1848–1849: Axel Sveiga
  • 1850–1853: Knud Johnsen Vaage
  • 1854–1855: Asser Ueland
  • 1856–1857: Torjus Nilsen Sveiga
  • 1858–1861: Hans Birkeland
  • 1862–1869: Ole Daastøl
  • 1870–1871: Søren Korneliussen Tjersland
  • 1872–1873: Gjert Sand
  • 1874–1876: Søren Korneliussen Tjersland
  • 1876–1877: Ole Sivertsen Kirkehavn
  • 1878–1879: Johannes Jensen Loge
  • 1880–1881: Ole Sivertsen Kirkehavn
  • 1882–1883: Tobias D. Tjørsvaag
  • 1884–1887: Adolf S. Jacobsen
  • 1888–1891: Ole Fuglestvedt
  • 1892–1893: Johannes Jensen Loge

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Kart over Norge" (in Norwegian). Kartverket.
  2. ↑ "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
  3. ↑ Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (9 January 2024). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Foreningen Store norske leksikon.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Thorsnæs, Geir, ed. (26 November 2024). "Hidra og Nes". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Foreningen Store norske leksikon. Retrieved 21 May 2026.
  5. ↑ Registreringssentral for historiske data. "Hjemmehørende folkemengde Vest-Agder 1801-1960" (in Norwegian). University of Tromsø. Archived from the original on 23 August 2012. Retrieved 14 October 2006.
  6. ↑ Jukvam, Dag (1999). "Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Statistisk sentralbyrå. ISBN 9788253746845.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link)
  7. ↑ "Norsk Lovtidende. 2den Afdeling. 1917. Samling af Love, Resolutioner m.m". Norsk Lovtidend (in Norwegian). Kristiania, Norge: Grøndahl og Søns Boktrykkeri: 1057–1065. 1917.
  8. ↑ Rygh, Oluf (1912). Norske gaardnavne: Lister og Mandals amt (in Norwegian) (9 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. p. 315.
  9. ↑ Rygh, Oluf (1912). Norske gaardnavne: Lister og Mandals amt (in Norwegian) (9 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. p. 303.
  10. ↑ Statistisk sentralbyrå (1 January 1951). Norges Sivile, Geistlige, Rettslige og Militære Inndeling 1. Januar 1951 (PDF). Norges Offisielle Statistikk (in Norwegian). Oslo, Norge: H. Aschehoug & Co.
  11. ↑ Hansen, Tore; Vabo, Signy Irene, eds. (25 November 2024). "kommunestyre". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Foreningen Store norske leksikon. Retrieved 31 December 2024.
  12. ↑ Vest-Agder fylke 1837-1937 (in Norwegian). Kristiansand: Landmarks bokhandel. 1937. p. 265.
  13. ↑ Seland, Johannes (1983). Bygdebok for Nes Herred : Kulturhistorie (in Norwegian). Vol. III. Flekkefjord: Nes Bygdeboknemnd.

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