Greipstad

Greipstad herred
Greipstad herred
	Former Municipality
	View of the local church in Nodeland
	Greipstad herred Location of the municipality Greipstad herred Greipstad herred (Norway)
	Coordinates: 58°09′14″N 07°49′29″E
Country	Norway
Region	Southern Norway
County	Vest-Agder
District	Sørlandet
Municipality ID	NO-1017
Adm. Center	Nodeland
Area [1]
• Total	104 km2 (40 sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Created from	Søgne in 1913
Merged into	Songdalen in 1964

Greipstad is a former municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway. The 104-square-kilometre (40 sq mi) municipality existed from 1913 until its dissolution in 1964. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Nodeland where the Greipstad Church is located. The municipality encompassed the southeastern part of the present-day municipality of Songdalen.[1]

History

The municipality of Greipstad was established on 1 July 1913 when it was separated from the municipality of Søgne to form a municipality of its own. Initially, the municipality had a population of 822 residents. During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1964, the municipality of Greipstad (population: 2,061) was dissolved and it was merged with most of the neighboring municipality of Finsland, excluding the area around Kleveland bru, (population: 797) and with the Eikeland area of Øvrebø municipality (population: 39) to form the new municipality of Songdalen.[2]

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Greipstad farm (Old Norse: Greipsstaðir), since that was the site of Greipstad Church. The first element of the name comes from the male name, Greipr, and the last element is stad which means "place".[1][3]

References

Store norske leksikon. "Greipstad – tidligere kommune" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2017-01-03.
Jukvam, Dag (1999). "Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Statistisk sentralbyrå.
Rygh, Oluf (1912). Norske gaardnavne: Lister og Mandals amt (in Norwegian) (9 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. p. 58.

External links

Weather information for Greipstad (in Norwegian)

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[snl-1] Store norske leksikon. "Greipstad – tidligere kommune" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2017-01-03.

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

[3] Rygh, Oluf (1912). Norske gaardnavne: Lister og Mandals amt (in Norwegian) (9 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. p. 58.