Eikefjord is a former municipality in the Sunnfjord district in the old Sogn og Fjordane county , Norway . The 145-square-kilometre (56 sq mi) municipality existed from 1923 until 1964 when it joined Flora Municipality (now part of Kinn Municipality in Vestland county). The administrative center of the former municipality was the village of Eikefjord , where Eikefjord Church is located. The municipality of Eikefjord was located at the end of the Eikefjorden , about 30 kilometres (19 mi) east of the town of Florø . The lake Endestadvatnet was part of the municipality. The municipality encompassed the immediate area around the village of Eikefjord and to the east and south of the village.
8-494: The parish of Eikefjord was established as a municipality on 1 January 1923 when the large municipality of Kinn was divided into three: Kinn (population: 2,508) in the west, Bru (population: 1,560) in the centre, and Eikefjord (population: 929) in the east. During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee . On 1 January 1964, Eikefjord Municipality (population: 919)
16-492: 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 was further divided into deaneries ( prosti ). Each of those deaneries were divided into several parishes ( prestegjeld ). Each parish
24-449: The parish ) is named after the old Eikefjord farm ( Old Norse : Eikifjǫrðr ) since the first Eikefjord Church was built there. The farm was named after the local fjord . The first element comes form the word eik which means " oak ". The last element is fjǫrðr which means " fjord " or " firth ". During its existence, this municipality was governed by a municipal council of directly elected representatives. The mayor
32-496: Was indirectly elected by a vote of the municipal council. The mayors of Eikefjord: The municipal council (Heradsstyre) of Eikefjord was made up of 13 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 the Church of Norway ( Den Norske Kirke ) roughly equivalent to
40-498: 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
48-576: Was merged with the town of Florø (population: 2,040), Kinn Municipality (population: 3,567), the parts of Bru Municipality located north of the Førdefjorden (population: 1,155), the Husefest and Breivik areas of Bremanger Municipality (population: 9), and the Steindal area of Vevring Municipality (population: 25) were combined to form the newly created Flora Municipality . The municipality (originally
56-400: 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
64-453: 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
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