Nes og Hidra

Nes og Hitterø or Hitterø og Nes is a former municipality that was located in the old Vest-Agder county in Norway. It was located in the southwestern part of the present-day municipality of Flekkefjord in Agder county. It encompassed the Nes peninsula and the island of Hidra (formerly called Hitterø). The 240-square-kilometre (93 sq mi) municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1893. The administrative centre of the municipality was the small village of Sunde in Nes parish, located just outside the town of Flekkefjord (which was its own separate municipality).[2]

Nes og Hitterø herred
Hitterø og Nes herred (alternate)
Flekkefjord landdistrikt (historic)
Former municipality
View on Hidra
View on Hidra
Official logo of Nes og Hitterø herred
Vest-Agder within
Norway
Nes og Hitterø within Vest-Agder
Nes og Hitterø within Vest-Agder
Coordinates: 58°13′28″N 06°34′43″E
CountryNorway
CountyVest-Agder
DistrictLister
Established1 Jan 1838
 • Created asFormannskapsdistrikt
Disestablished8 Oct 1893
 • Succeeded byNes and Hitterø municipalities
Administrative centreNes
Area
 (upon dissolution)
 • Total240 km2 (90 sq mi)
Population
 (1893)
 • Total3,779
 • Density16/km2 (41/sq mi)
DemonymNessokning[1]
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 codeNO-1042
Data from Statistics Norway

History

The municipality of Flekkefjord landdistrikt was established on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt law). According to the 1835 census, the municipality had a population of 3,155.[3] The name was changed to Nes og Hitterø in 1864. On 8 October 1893, Nes og Hitterø was divided to create two new municipalities: Nes (population: 1,704) and Hitterø (population: 2,075). These two municipalities were later merged into the municipality of Flekkefjord during the 1960s.[4][2]

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) was originally named Flekkefjord landdistrikt since it was the rural area surrounding the town of Flekkefjord. In 1864, the municipal name was changed to Nes og Hitterø, a compound name literally meaning "Nes and Hitterø". Records show that the name compound name was also sometimes reversed to Hitterø og Nes.[2]

The parish of Nes is named after the old Nes farm (Old Norse: Nes) since the first local church (now called Flekkefjord Church) was built at that location. The name is identical to the word nes which means "peninsula", since the farm is located on a peninsula.[5]

The parish of Hitterø is named after the island of Hidra (Old Norse: Hitrar) since the first Hidra Church was built there. The name is the plural form of hitr which means "split" or "cleft" (referring to the fact that the island is almost split in two by the Rasvåg fjord).[2][6]

See also: Name of Hitra municipality

See also

References
  1. "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
  2. Thorsnæs, Geir, ed. (29 March 2022). "Hidra og Nes". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
  3. Registreringssentral for historiske data. "Hjemmehørende folkemengde Vest-Agder 1801-1960" (in Norwegian). University of Tromsø.
  4. Jukvam, Dag (1999). "Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Statistisk sentralbyrå. ISBN 9788253746845.
  5. Rygh, Oluf (1912). Norske gaardnavne: Lister og Mandals amt (in Norwegian) (9 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. p. 315.
  6. Rygh, Oluf (1912). Norske gaardnavne: Lister og Mandals amt (in Norwegian) (9 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. p. 303.

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