Hylestad

Hylestad herred
Hylestad herred
	Former Municipality
	View of the local Hylestad Church
	Hylestad herred Location of the municipality Hylestad herred Hylestad herred (Norway)
	Coordinates: 59.0935°N 07.5359°E
Country	Norway
Region	Southern Norway
County	Aust-Agder
District	Setesdal
Municipality ID	NO-0939
Adm. Center	Rysstad
Area [1]
• Total	570 km2 (220 sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Created from	Valle in 1915
Merged into	Valle in 1962

Hylestad is a former municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway. The 570-square-kilometre (220 sq mi) former municipality was located in the southern part of the present-day municipality of Valle in the traditional region of Setesdal. It existed from 1915 until its dissolution in 1962. The administrative centre was the village of Rysstad where the Hylestad Church was located.[1]

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) was named after the old Hylestad farm (Old Norse: Hyljastaðir), since the first Hylestad Church was built there. The first element comes from hylja meaning a "pool" (possibly referring to the pool in the river) and the last element is staðir which means "homestead" or "farm".[2]

History

The parish of Hylestad was established as a municipality on 1 July 1915 when the municipality of Valle was divided into two municipalities: Hylestad (population: 658) in the south and Valle (population: 1,051) in the north. During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1962, Hylestad was reincorporated into Valle. Prior to the merger Hylestad had a population of 662.[3]

Notable residents

Osmund Faremo (1921-1999), a Norwegian politician
Aani Aanisson Rysstad (1894-1965), a Norwegian politician

References

"Hylestad". Store Norske Leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved 12 March 2009.
Rygh, Oluf (1905). Norske gaardnavne: Nedenes amt (in Norwegian) (8 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. p. 224.
Jukvam, Dag (1999). "Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Statistisk sentralbyrå. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

External links

Aust-Agder travel guide from Wikivoyage

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[snl-1] "Hylestad". Store Norske Leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved 12 March 2009.

[2] Rygh, Oluf (1905). Norske gaardnavne: Nedenes amt (in Norwegian) (8 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. p. 224.

[Dag-3] Jukvam, Dag (1999). "Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Statistisk sentralbyrå. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)