Heim, Norway

Heim kommune
Municipality
Heim kommune
Heim within Trøndelag
Heim kommune
Heim kommune (Norway)
Coordinates: 63°17′26″N 9°05′21″E / 63.2906°N 09.0891°E / 63.2906; 09.0891Coordinates: 63°17′26″N 9°05′21″E / 63.2906°N 09.0891°E / 63.2906; 09.0891
Country Norway
County Trøndelag
District Fosen
Established 1 Jan 2020
Administrative centre Kyrksæterøra
Demonym(s) Heimsbygg[1]
Time zone UTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code NO-5055
Official language form Neutral
Data from Statistics Norway

Heim is new municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway that will be established on 1 January 2020. It is going to be located in the traditional district of Fosen. The administrative centre of the municipality will be the village of Kyrksæterøra.

The municipality will be formed by the merger of the neighboring municipalities of Hemne and Halsa as well as the Ytre Snillfjord area in the municipality of Snillfjord. The municipality of Halsa will leave Møre og Romsdal county and switch to Trøndelag county when the merger occurs.[2][3]

Name

The parish of Heim was established in 1884. It is named after the old Heim farm (Old Norse: Heimr), since the church is built on its ground. The name is identical with the word heimr which means "home", "homestead", or "farm".[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet. Retrieved 2015-12-01.
  2. ↑ "Ny kommune - Halsa, Snillfjord og Hemne" (in Norwegian). Hemne kommune. Retrieved 2018-02-11.
  3. ↑ "Endringer i kommunestrukturen". Prop. 96 S (2016-2017), Innst. 386 S (2016-2017) (in Norwegian). Stortinget. Retrieved 2018-02-11.
  4. ↑ Rygh, Oluf (1901). Norske gaardnavne: Søndre Trondhjems amt (in Norwegian) (14 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. p. 85.


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