Dypvåg

Dypvåg kommune
Dybvaag herred
Dypvåg kommune; Dybvaag herred
	Former Municipality
	View of the local church
	Dypvåg kommune; Dybvaag herred Location of the municipality Dypvåg kommune; Dybvaag herred Dypvåg kommune; Dybvaag herred (Norway)
	Coordinates: 58°37′34″N 09°03′08″E
Country	Norway
Region	Southern Norway
County	Aust-Agder
District	Østre Agder
Municipality ID	NO-0915
Adm. Center	Dypvåg
Area [1]
• Total	15 km2 (6 sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Created as	Formannskapsdistrikt in 1838
Merged into	Tvedestrand in 1960

Dypvåg is a former municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway. The 15-square-kilometre (5.8 sq mi) municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1960 when it was merged into the present-day municipality of Tvedestrand. The small municipality included the coastal area about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) east of the town of Tvedestrand and several islands located just offshore. The administrative centre was the village of Dypvåg where the Dypvåg Church is located.[1]

History

The parish of Dybvaag (later spelled "Dypvåg") was established as a civil municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). On 1 January 1881, a part of the municipality of Holt (population: 52) was transferred to Dypvåg. Then later, on 1 January 1887, an uninhabited part of neighboring Søndeled municipality was transferred to Dypvåg. On 1 January 1902, the western half of Dypvåg (population: 1,892) was separated from the rest of Dypvåg (population: 3,235) to form the new municipality of Flosta.

During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1960, the municipality of Dypvåg (population: 1,805) was merged with the neighboring municipality of Holt and the town of Tvedestrand to form a new, enlarged municipality of Tvedestrand which had a population of 6,432.[2]

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Dybvaag farm (Old Norse: Djúpvágr or Djúpivágr) in what is now the village of Dypvåg, since the first Dypvåg Church was built there. The first element comes from dype which means "deep" and the last element is våg which means "water" or "harbor". The spelling of the name was changed from Dybvaag to Dypvåg around the beginning of the 20th century.[3]

Notable residents

Jens Marcussen (1926-2007), a politician
Kristian Vilhelm Koren Schjelderup, Jr. (1894-1980), a theologian
Peter Olrog Schjøtt (1833-1926), a philologist

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References

Thorsnæs, Geir, ed. (2015-07-24). "Dypvåg – tidligere kommune". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 2018-01-01.
Jukvam, Dag (1999). "Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Statistisk sentralbyrå.
Rygh, Oluf (1905). Norske gaardnavne: Nedenes amt (in Norwegian) (8 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. p. 36.

External links

Aust-Agder travel guide from Wikivoyage

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[snl-1] Thorsnæs, Geir, ed. (2015-07-24). "Dypvåg – tidligere kommune". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 2018-01-01.

[Dag-2] Jukvam, Dag (1999). "Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Statistisk sentralbyrå.

[3] Rygh, Oluf (1905). Norske gaardnavne: Nedenes amt (in Norwegian) (8 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. p. 36.