Dypvåg



Former Municipality in Southern Norway, Norway























Dypvåg kommune
Dybvaag herred

Former Municipality

View of the local church
View of the local church





Dypvåg kommuneDybvaag herred is located in Aust-Agder

Dypvåg kommuneDybvaag herred

Dypvåg kommune
Dybvaag herred



Location of the municipality

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Dypvåg kommuneDybvaag herred is located in Norway

Dypvåg kommuneDybvaag herred

Dypvåg kommune
Dybvaag herred



Dypvåg kommune
Dybvaag herred (Norway)

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Coordinates: 58°37′34″N 09°03′08″E / 58.62611°N 9.05222°E / 58.62611; 9.05222Coordinates: 58°37′34″N 09°03′08″E / 58.62611°N 9.05222°E / 58.62611; 9.05222
Country
Norway
Region
Southern Norway
County
Aust-Agder
District
Østre Agder
Municipality ID
NO-0915
Adm. Center
Dypvåg
Area[1]
 • Total
15 km2 (6 sq mi)
Time zone
CET (UTC+01:00)
 • Summer (DST)
CEST (UTC+02:00)
Created as
Formannskapsdistrikt in 1838
Merged into
Tvedestrand in 1960

Dypvåg is a former municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway. The 15-square-kilometre (5.8 sq mi) municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1960 when it was merged into the present-day municipality of Tvedestrand. The small municipality included the coastal area about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) east of the town of Tvedestrand and several islands located just offshore. The administrative centre was the village of Dypvåg where the Dypvåg Church is located.[1]




Contents





  • 1 History


  • 2 Name


  • 3 Notable residents


  • 4 References


  • 5 External links




History


The parish of Dybvaag (later spelled "Dypvåg") was established as a civil municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). On 1 January 1881, a part of the municipality of Holt (population: 52) was transferred to Dypvåg. Then later, on 1 January 1887, an uninhabited part of neighboring Søndeled municipality was transferred to Dypvåg. On 1 January 1902, the western half of Dypvåg (population: 1,892) was separated from the rest of Dypvåg (population: 3,235) to form the new municipality of Flosta.


During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1960, the municipality of Dypvåg (population: 1,805) was merged with the neighboring municipality of Holt and the town of Tvedestrand to form a new, enlarged municipality of Tvedestrand which had a population of 6,432.[2]



Name


The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Dybvaag farm (Old Norse: Djúpvágr or Djúpivágr) in what is now the village of Dypvåg, since the first Dypvåg Church was built there. The first element comes from dype which means "deep" and the last element is våg which means "water" or "harbor". The spelling of the name was changed from Dybvaag to Dypvåg around the beginning of the 20th century.[3]



Notable residents



  • Jens Marcussen (1926-2007), a politician


  • Kristian Vilhelm Koren Schjelderup, Jr. (1894-1980), a theologian


  • Peter Olrog Schjøtt (1833-1926), a philologist


References




  1. ^ ab Thorsnæs, Geir, ed. (2015-07-24). "Dypvåg – tidligere kommune". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 2018-01-01. 


  2. ^ Jukvam, Dag (1999). "Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Statistisk sentralbyrå. 


  3. ^ Rygh, Oluf (1905). Norske gaardnavne: Nedenes amt (in Norwegian) (8 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. p. 36. 




External links



  • Aust-Agder travel guide from Wikivoyage

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