Udøy is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway . The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1960. It was located in the southern and central parts of the present-day Smøla Municipality . The old municipality originally encompassed all the islands surrounding the Edøyfjorden . This included the islands of Smøla , Tustna , Stabblandet , and the many smaller islands between the larger ones. The island of Edøya lies between the two and that was the center of the old municipality. Over time, parts of Edøy were split off to form other municipalities. At the time it was dissolved, Edøy municipality was 149 square kilometres (58 sq mi). The Old Edøy Church and later the (new) Edøy Church were the main churches for the municipality.
17-447: The parish of Edø (later spelled Edøy ) was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt law). A royal resolution of 3 May 1873 directed that the southern Tustern parish be removed from Edøy to create the new municipality of Tustern effective on 1 January 1874. This left Edøy with 2,166 inhabitants. On 1 January 1915, the municipality was divided into three. The northeastern district (population: 1,050)
34-416: A lading place or a market town prior to export. This incentive ensured that local trading went through local merchants, a technique which was so effective in limiting smuggling that customs revenues increased from less than 30% of the total tax revenues in 1600 to more than 50% of the total taxes by 1700. During the last half of the 20th century, the distinction between the different types of municipalities
51-471: The Church of Norway ( Den Norske Kirke ) roughly equivalent to a parish . This traditional designation was in use for centuries to divide 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
68-577: The Merovingian or Viking period. The group planned to conduct additional searches in the area. A similar burial was found previously by NIKU archaeologists in 2018, in Gjellestad. The municipality (originally the parish ) is named after the old Edøy farm ( Old Norse : Æðey ) since the Old Edøy Church was built there. The first element is æðr which means " eider ", a common type of sea bird for
85-518: The area. The last element is ey which means " island ". Historically, the name of the municipality was spelled Edø . On 3 November 1917, a royal resolution changed the spelling of the name of the municipality to Edøy . While it existed, this municipality was responsible for primary education (through 10th grade), outpatient health services , senior citizen services, unemployment , social services , zoning , economic development , and municipal roads . During its existence, this municipality
102-419: The land registration law superseded the formannsskapsdistrikt by introduction of a new designation, the municipality ( Norwegian : herred ). Two forms of municipality were created: "rural municipality" and "city" (or " market town "). Each district was to elect a body of selectmen of no less than 12 and no more than 48 members. This body selected a quarter of their members as a committee, which together with
119-523: The law was changed so that each diocese employed the priests within its areas. Between 2004 and 2012, the prestegjeld 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
136-419: The local magistrate, established taxes to be levied and improvements to be performed in the district. The local chairman also represented the municipality at the county level. Almost one century later in 1936, a local self-government district law was enacted which created 682 rural municipalities ( landkommuner ) and 65 city municipalities ( bykommuner ) in Norway. Among the city municipalities, 43 had
153-441: The municipality. The municipal church councils are part of a deanery and the deaneries are part of a diocese. Also in this reform, priests are now employed by the deaneries. Formannskapsdistrikt Formannskapsdistrikt ( Urban East Norwegian: [ˈfɔ̂rmɑnskɑːpsdɪˌstrɪkt] ) is the name for Norwegian local self-government districts that were legally enacted on 1 January 1838. This system of municipalities
170-522: The new municipality of Smøla . Prior to the merger, Edøy had a population of 1,135. In 2019, archaeologists from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research using large-scale high-resolution georadar technology, determined that a 17 meter long Viking ship was buried near the Edøy Church . Traces of a small settlement were also found. They estimate the ship's age as over 1,000 years: from
187-523: The status of market town ( kjøpstad ) and 22 were recognized harbors for export/import ( ladested ). Norway included a subordinate category to the market town, the "small seaport" ( lossested or ladested ), which was a port or harbor with a monopoly to import and export goods and materials in both the port and for a surrounding outlying district. Typically, these were locations for exporting timber and importing grain and goods. Local farm goods and timber sales were all required to pass through merchants at either
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#1733114645999204-440: Was a major political change. The Norwegian farm culture ( bondekultur ) that emerged came to serve as a symbol of nationalistic resistance to the forced union with Sweden . The legislation of 1837 gave both the towns and the rural areas the same institutions: a minor change for the town, but a major advance for the rural communities. The significance of this legislation is hailed by a nationalistic historian, Ernst Sars : In 1853,
221-821: Was created in a bill approved by the Parliament of Norway and signed into law by King Carl Johan on 14 January 1837. The formannskaps law, which fulfilled an express requirement of the Constitution of Norway , required that every parish ( Norwegian : prestegjeld ) form a formannsskapsdistrikt (municipality) on 1 January 1838. In this way, the parishes of the state Church of Norway became worldly, administrative districts as well. (Although some parishes were divided into two or three municipalities.) In total, 396 formannsskapsdistrikts were created under this law, and different types of formannskapsdistrikts were created, also: The introduction of self government in rural districts
238-425: Was further divided into deaneries ( prosti ). Each of those deaneries were divided into several parishes ( prestegjeld ). Each parish 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
255-439: 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 Edøy was made up of 17 representatives that were elected to four year terms. The party breakdown of the final municipal council was as follows: Prestegjeld A prestegjeld was a geographic and administrative area within
272-438: Was passed in Norway and it created civil municipalities that corresponded to the same borders as the ecclesiastical prestegjelds . Prior to that time there 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,
289-457: Was separated to become Hopen Municipality and the northwestern area (population: 1,462) became the new Brattvær Municipality. This split left Edøy with a population of 973. During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee . On 1 January 1960, the 1915 partition was reversed, reuniting the municipalities Brattvær , Edøy, and Hopen as
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