Flå, Sør-Trøndelag

Flå herad
Flaa
Former municipality

Coat of arms
Flå herad
Flå within Sør-Trøndelag
Flå herad
Flå herad (Norway)
Coordinates: 63°11′51″N 10°18′11″E / 63.19750°N 10.30306°E / 63.19750; 10.30306Coordinates: 63°11′51″N 10°18′11″E / 63.19750°N 10.30306°E / 63.19750; 10.30306
Country Norway
County Sør-Trøndelag
District Gauldalen
Established 1 Jan 1880
Disestablished 1 Jan 1964
Administrative centre Ler
Population (1964)
 • Total 843
Demonym(s) Flåbygg[1]
Time zone UTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code NO-1652
Preceded by Melhus in 1880
Succeeded by Melhus in 1964
Data from Statistics Norway

Flå is a former municipality in the old Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The approximately 110-square-kilometre (42 sq mi) municipality existed from 1880 until its dissolution in 1964. Flå was located in the eastern part of what is now the municipality of Melhus in Trøndelag county. The administrative centre was the village of Ler. The main church for the area is Flå Church.[2]

View of Ler in 1906

History

The municipality of Flaa was established in 1880 when the municipality of Melhus was divided into two. The new municipality of Flaa had an initial population of 614. The spelling was later changed to Flå. During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1964, the neighboring municipalities of Hølonda (population: 1,428), Horg (population: 2,560), Flå (population: 843), Melhus (population: 3,978), and the Langørgen farm (population: 11) in Buvik were all merged to form a new, larger municipality of Melhus.[3]

Notable residents

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet. Retrieved 2015-12-01.
  2. ↑ Store norske leksikon. "Flå – sogn og tidl. kommune i Sør-Trøndelag" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2011-03-17.
  3. ↑ Jukvam, Dag (1999). "Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Statistisk sentralbyrå.
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