Bolsøy is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway . The 290-square-kilometre (110 sq mi) municipality of Bolsøy encompassed the area around the Fannefjorden including most of the present-day Molde Municipality , excluding the town of Molde . The municipality also included the Molde Archipelago and the island of Bolsøya . The administrative center of the municipality was located on the island of Bolsøya near the location of the main church for the parish, Bolsøy Church .
9-486: The parish of Bolsøy was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt law). According to the 1835 census, Bolsøy had a population of 2,391. On 1 January 1877, the Sotnakken farm (population: 19) was added to Bolsøy Municipality from Nesset Municipality . In 1915, a part of Bolsøy with 183 inhabitants was transferred to the town of Molde . Again in 1952, another part of Bolsøy (population: 1,913)
18-416: The kingdom into ecclesiastical areas that were led by a parish priest. Prestegjelds began in the 1400s and were officially discontinued in 2012. Prior to the discontinuation of the prestegjeld , Norway was geographically divided into 11 dioceses ( bispedømme ). Each diocese was further divided into deaneries ( prosti ). Each of those deaneries were divided into several parishes ( prestegjeld ). Each parish
27-404: The name of the municipality was spelled Bolsø . On 3 November 1917, a royal resolution changed the spelling of the name of the municipality to Bolsøy . During its existence, this municipality was governed by a municipal council of directly elected representatives. The mayor was indirectly elected by a vote of the municipal council. The municipal council (Herredsstyre) of Bolsøy
36-411: The new Molde Municipality . The municipality (originally the parish ) is named after the island of Bolsøya ( Old Norse : Bylingsøy ) since the first Bolsøy Church was built there. The first element comes from the old name for the island. The island's name is uncertain, but it may come from the word boli which means " bull ". The last element is øy which means " island ". Historically,
45-451: Was made up of 35 representatives that were elected to four year terms. The party breakdown of the final municipal council was as follows: The mayors of Bolsøy: Prestegjeld A prestegjeld was a geographic and administrative area within the Church of Norway ( Den Norske Kirke ) roughly equivalent to a parish . This traditional designation was in use for centuries to divide
54-498: Was made up of one or more sub-parishes or congregations ( sogn or sokn ). Within a prestegjeld , there were usually one or more clerical positions ( chaplains ) serving under the administration of a head minister ( sogneprest or sokneprest ). In 1838, the formannskapsdistrikt law was passed in Norway and it created civil municipalities that corresponded to the same borders as the ecclesiastical prestegjelds . Prior to that time there
63-400: Was no local government in Norway apart from the church's parishes. Today's municipalities have changed some, but their roots are all based on the prestegjeld. Historically, the government employed all the priests working in all of the prestegjelds across Norway. In 1989, the law was changed so that each diocese employed the priests within its areas. Between 2004 and 2012, the prestegjeld
72-453: Was phased out of the Church of Norway. The new structure replaced the prestegjeld with the already-existing deanery ( prosti ). The sokn (sub-parishes or congregations) are the basic units of the church and all of the sokn within each municipality in Norway forms a governing church council for the municipality. The municipal church councils are part of a deanery and the deaneries are part of
81-529: Was transferred to the town of Molde. During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee . On 1 January 1964, Bolsøy Municipality (population: 7,996) ceased to exist when it was merged with the town of Molde (population: 8,239), the northern part of Veøy Municipality (population: 756), and the Mordal area (population: 77) from Nord-Aukra Municipality to form
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