Tveit (municipality)

Tveit is a former municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway. The 107-square-kilometre (41 sq mi) municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1965. The municipality was located in the northeastern part of the present-day municipality of Kristiansand along the river Topdalselva. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Tveit where Tveit Church is located.[1]

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Former Municipality
Aerial view of Tveit (northeast of the fjord)
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Location of the municipality
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Tveit herred (Norway)
Coordinates: 58.2279°N 08.1204°E / 58.2279; 08.1204
CountryNorway
RegionSouthern Norway
CountyVest-Agder
DistrictSørlandet
Municipality IDNO-1013
Adm. CenterTveit
Area
 • Total107 km2 (41 sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Created asFormannskapsdistrikt in 1838
Merged intoKristiansand in 1965

History

The parish of Tveit was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1965, the municipalities of Tveit (population: 2,802), Oddernes (population: 18,668), and Randesund (population: 1,672) were merged with the town of Kristiansand (population: 27,100) to form a new, larger municipality of Kristiansand.[2]

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) was named after the old Tveit farm (Old Norse: Þveit), since the first Tveit Church was built there. The name is identical with the word þveit which means "a piece of cleared land cut from a forest".[3] The name spelled differently over the centuries: Tved, Thvet, and Tveid.[4]

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See also

References
  1. Store norske leksikon. "Tveit – tidligere kommune" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2017-01-26.
  2. Jukvam, Dag (1999). "Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Statistisk sentralbyrå. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. Harper, Douglas (November 2001). "Thwaite". Online Etymology Dictionary.
  4. Rygh, Oluf (1912). Norske gaardnavne: Lister og Mandals amt (in Norwegian) (9 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. p. 1.
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