Eide, Aust-Agder

Eide is a former municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway. It is currently located within the municipality of Grimstad in the traditional district of Sørlandet. The municipality of Eide existed from 1838 until 1962. The 32.4-square-kilometre (12.5 sq mi) municipality was made up of 29.2 square kilometres (11.3 sq mi) on the mainland and the rest being nearly 70 small islands off the Skaggerak coast. The larger islands include Auseøya, Homborøya, and Ålesøya.[1] The administrative centre was the village of Eide where the Eide Church is located. Other villages in Eide included Jortveit and Homborsund.

This article is about the former municipality in Aust-Agder, Norway. For other uses, see Eide (disambiguation).
Eide kommune
Former Municipality
View of Eide Church
Eide kommune
Location of the municipality
Eide kommune
Eide kommune (Norway)
Coordinates: 58°16′11″N 08°28′41″E
CountryNorway
RegionSouthern Norway
CountyAust-Agder
DistrictØstre Agder
Municipality IDNO-0925
Adm. CenterEide
Area
 • Total32.4 km2 (12.5 sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Created asFormannskapsdistrikt in 1838
Merged intoLandvik in 1962

History
Map of the old Eide municipality.

The municipality of Eide was created 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 1962, the area of Gitmarkgårdene, with 22 inhabitants, was incorporated into the neighboring municipality of Lillesand. The rest of the municipality of Eide, with 504 inhabitants, was merged into the neighboring municipality of Landvik. Later, in 1971, Landvik was incorporated into the municipality of Grimstad.[2]

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Eide farm (Old Norse: Eiði), since the first Eide Church was built there. The name is identical to the word eid which means "isthmus" because the farm (and church) is located between two bodies of water: the Fosdalskilen and Engekilen.[1][3]

Notable residents

References
  1. Kiær, Anders Nicolai; Helland, Amund; Vibe, Johan; Strøm, Boye (1904). Norges land og folk: Nedenes amt (in Norwegian). Norway: H. Aschehoug & Company. p. 368. Retrieved 2017-11-06.
  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. 139.
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