Bjørnør

Bjørnør is a former municipality in the old Sør-Trøndelag county in Norway. The 865-square-kilometre (334 sq mi) municipality existed from 1838 until 1892 in what was at that time the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway.[1] It encompassed the area of what is now the municipality of Osen along with the Roan and Stoksund areas in the present day municipality of Åfjord, all in the western part of the Fosen peninsula in Trøndelag county. Bjørnør bordered the municipality of Aafjord to the south and Nordre Trondhjem county to the north and west. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Roan where the Roan Church is located.[2][3]

Bjørnør herred
Former municipality
View of the Osenstrømmen
View of the Osenstrømmen
Official logo of Bjørnør herred
Sør-Trøndelag within
Norway
Bjørnør within Sør-Trøndelag
Bjørnør within Sør-Trøndelag
Coordinates: 64°10′21″N 10°32′15″E
CountryNorway
CountySør-Trøndelag
DistrictFosen
Established1 Jan 1838
 • Created asFormannskapsdistrikt
Disestablished1 June 1892
 • Succeeded byRoan, Stoksund, and Osen in 1892
Administrative centreRoan
Area
 (upon dissolution)
 • Total865 km2 (334 sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 codeNO-1632
Data from Statistics Norway

History

The municipality of Bjørnør was established on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). On 15 January 1892, the King approved a royal resolution to split up the municipality of Bjørør. It went into effect on 1 June 1892 when Bjørnør ceased to exist, and it was split into three new municipalities: Osen (population: 1,575), Roan (population: 2,069), and Stoksund (population: 1,122).[4]

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named Bjørnør after the historic name for the area (Old Norse: Bjarnaurar). The first element plural genitive case of the word bjǫrn which means "bear". The last element is aurr which means "gravel" or "coarse sand".[5]

Government

During its existence, this municipality was governed by a municipal council of elected representatives, which in turn elected a mayor.[6]

Mayors

The mayors of Bjørnør:[7]

  • 1838–1839: Tarald Eide
  • 1840–1841: Mathias Eide
  • 1842–1845: Christian Severin Houge
  • 1846–1851: Mathias Eide
  • 1852–1864: Peder Pedersen
  • 1864–1865: Ole Wilmann
  • 1866–1883: Fredrik Berg (H)
  • 1883-1883: Jakob Kristian Sørmelan (V)
  • 1884–1885: Johan Moses Møller (H)
  • 1886–1888: Harald Kjeldsberg
  • 1888–1889: Jens Larsen Hopstad
  • 1890–1891: Johan Moses Møller (H)
  • 1892-1892: John Hopstad (MV)

See also

References
  1. Helland, Amund T. (1898). "Osen, Roan og Stoksund herreder". Norges land og folk: Søndre Trondhjems amt (in Norwegian). Vol. XVI (2). Kristiania, Norway: H. Aschehoug & Company. p. 3. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  2. "Stoksund herred" (in Norwegian). Åfjord Historie. Archived from the original on 11 March 2018. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  3. Haugen, Morten, ed. (18 July 2017). "Bjørnør – tidligere kommune". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Archived from the original on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  4. Jukvam, Dag (1999). Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen (PDF) (in Norwegian). Statistisk sentralbyrå. ISBN 9788253746845.
  5. Rygh, Oluf (1901). Norske gaardnavne: Søndre Trondhjems amt (in Norwegian) (14 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. p. 1.
  6. Hansen, Tore; Vabo, Signy Irene, eds. (20 September 2022). "kommunestyre". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
  7. Guttelvik, Henrik (1973). Bjørnør: Osen, Roan, Stoksund : kommunejubileet 1837-1937 (in Norwegian). Orkanger: Bjørnør historielag. p. 30. ISBN 8252304001.

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