Randesund (municipality)
Randesund is a former municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1893 until its dissolution in 1965. The administrative centre was the village of Randesund where Randesund Church is located. The municipality was located in the southeastern part of the present-day municipality of Kristiansand, east of the Topdalsfjorden and south of the old municipality of Tveit. Since 1965, the area of Randesund has been the district of Randesund within the city of Kristiansand.[1]
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| Coordinates: 58.1342°N 08.1176°E | |
| Country | Norway |
| Region | Southern Norway |
| County | Vest-Agder |
| District | Sørlandet |
| Municipality ID | NO-1011 |
| Adm. Center | Randesund |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Created as | Oddernes in 1893 |
| Merged into | Kristiansand in 1965 |
History
The municipality was established on 31 December 1893 when it was split off from the large municipality of Oddernes to form a separate municipality of its own. Initially, Randesund had a population of 1,133. During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1965, the municipality of Randesund (population: 1,672) was merged with the neighboring municipalities of Tveit (population: 2,802) and Oddernes (population: 18,668) and with the town of Kristiansand (population: 27,100) to form a new, much larger municipality of Kristiansand.[2]
Name
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the island, Randøen (now known as Randøya). The first part of the name is rand (Old Norse: rǫnd) which means "boundary" or "edge" and the last part of the name is sund which means "strait". The name was previously spelled Randøsund.[3][1]
References
- Store norske leksikon. "Randesund" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2017-01-28.
- Jukvam, Dag (1999). "Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Statistisk sentralbyrå. Cite journal requires
|journal=(help) - Rygh, Oluf (1912). Norske gaardnavne: Lister og Mandals amt (in Norwegian) (9 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. pp. 20 & 26.