Vigmostad (municipality)
Vigmostad is a former municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1911 until its dissolution in 1964. The old municipality roughly covered the northern part of the present-day municipality of Lindesnes. The administrative centre was the village of Vigmostad where Vigmostad Church is located.[1]
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 View of Vigmostad Church in the early 1900s | |
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| Coordinates: 58°12′10″N 07°20′02″E | |
| Country | Norway |
| Region | Southern Norway |
| County | Vest-Agder |
| District | Sørlandet |
| Municipality ID | NO-1028 |
| Adm. Center | Vigmostad |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Created from | Nord-Audnedal in 1911 |
| Merged into | Lindesnes in 1964 |
History
The municipality of Vigmostad was established on 1 January 1911, when the old municipality of Nord-Audnedal was divided into Vigmostad (population: 923) and Konsmo (population: 782). During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1964, Vigmostad municipality was dissolved, and its area was merged with the neighboring municipalities of Sør-Audnedal and Spangereid to create the new municipality of Lindesnes. Prior to the merger, Vigmostad had a population of 589.[2]
Name
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Vigmostad farm (Old Norse: Vígmundarstaðir), since that is the location of Vigmostad Church. The first element of the name is the old male name Vígmundar (river-mouth) or Vígmarr (river-mare(sea)), and the last element is staðir, which means "homestead" or "farm".[3]
References
- Store norske leksikon. "Vigmostad" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2016-12-07.
- 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. p. 148.