Summary
Nes og Hitterø or Hitterø og Nes is a former municipality that was located in the old Vest-Agder county in Norway. It was located in the southwestern part of the present-day municipality of Flekkefjord in Agder county. It encompassed the Nes peninsula and the island of Hidra (formerly called Hitterø). The 240-square-kilometre (93 sq mi) municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1893. 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).[3]
Nes og Hitterø Municipality
Nes og Hitterø herred Hitterø og Nes herred (alternate) | |
|---|---|
| Flekkefjord landdistrikt (historic name) | |
 View on Hidra | |
 Vest-Agder within Norway | |
 Nes og Hitterø within Vest-Agder | |
| Coordinates: 58°13′28″N 06°34′43″E / 58.22444°N 6.57861°E | |
| Country | Norway |
| County | Vest-Agder |
| District | Lister |
| Established | 1 Jan 1838 |
| • Created as | Formannskapsdistrikt |
| Disestablished | 8 Oct 1893 |
| • Succeeded by | Nes and Hitterø municipalities |
| Administrative centre | Nes |
| Area (upon dissolution) | |
| • Total | 240 km2 (90 sq mi) |
| Population (1893) | |
| • Total | 3,779 |
| • Density | 16/km2 (41/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Nessokning[1] |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| ISO 3166 code | NO-1042[2] |
Data from Statistics Norway | |
History edit
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.[4] The name was changed to Nes og Hitterø in 1864. On 8 October 1893, Nes og Hitterø was divided to create two new municipalities: Nes (population: 1,704) and Hitterø (population: 2,075). These two municipalities were later merged into the municipality of Flekkefjord during the 1960s.[5][3]
Name edit
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.[3] 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).[6]
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.[7]
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).[3][8]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
- ^ Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (26 January 2023). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.
- ^ a b c d Thorsnæs, Geir, ed. (29 March 2022). "Hidra og Nes". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Jukvam, Dag (1999). Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen (PDF) (in Norwegian). Statistisk sentralbyrå. ISBN 9788253746845.
- ^ "Norsk Lovtidende. 2den Afdeling. 1917. Samling af Love, Resolutioner m.m". Norsk Lovtidend (in Norwegian). Kristiania, Norge: Grøndahl og Søns Boktrykkeri: 1057–1065. 1917.
- ^ Rygh, Oluf (1912). Norske gaardnavne: Lister og Mandals amt (in Norwegian) (9 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. p. 315.
- ^ Rygh, Oluf (1912). Norske gaardnavne: Lister og Mandals amt (in Norwegian) (9 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. p. 303.
External links edit
Vest-Agder travel guide from Wikivoyage
