Holum

Holum herred
Holum herred; Holme herred
	Former Municipality
	View of Holum Church
	Holum herred Location of the municipality Holum herred Holum herred (Norway)
	Coordinates: 58°05′52″N 07°30′57″E
Country	Norway
Region	Southern Norway
County	Vest-Agder
District	Sørlandet
Municipality ID	NO-1020
Adm. Center	Krossen
Area [1]
• Total	116 km2 (45 sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Created as	Formannskapsdistrikt in 1838
Merged into	Mandal in 1964

Holum is a former municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway. The 116-square-kilometre (45 sq mi) municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1964. The administrative centre was the village of Krossen where Holum Church is located. The municipality was located in the northern part of the present-day municipality of Mandal.[1]

History

The parish of Holme 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 1964, most of Holum (population: 1,127) was merged with the town of Mandal and the municipality of Halse og Harkmark to form a new, larger Mandal municipality. The remainder of Holum (the Stubstad and Svalemyren areas, with a population of 9) was merged into the neighboring municipality of Søgne.[2]

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) was named after the old Holme farm (Old Norse: Holeimr), since that is the location of Holum Church. The name is a combination of the word hol or hull meaning "hole" and the word heimr meaning "home".[3] The spelling of the name was changed from Holme to Holum in 1911.[1]

References

Store norske leksikon. "Holum" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2016-12-17.
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. 85.

External links

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[snl-1] Store norske leksikon. "Holum" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2016-12-17.

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

[3] Rygh, Oluf (1912). Norske gaardnavne: Lister og Mandals amt (in Norwegian) (9 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. p. 85.