Tonstad (municipality)
Tonstad is a former municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway. The 361-square-kilometre (139 sq mi) municipality existed from 1905 until 1960. It encompassed the southern part of the present-day municipality of Sirdal. The administrative center of the municipality was the village of Tonstad where Tonstad Church is located.[1]
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.jpg) View of Tonstad in 1948 | |
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| Coordinates: 58°39′51″N 06°42′59″E | |
| Country | Norway |
| Region | Southern Norway |
| County | Vest-Agder |
| District | Lister |
| Municipality ID | NO-1046 |
| Adm. Center | Tonstad |
| Area | |
| • Total | 361 km2 (139 sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Split from | Sirdal in 1905 |
| Merged into | Sirdal in 1960 |
History
The municipality of Tonstad was established on 1 January 1905 when the old municipality of Sirdal was divided into two municipalities: Tonstad (population: 828) and Øvre Sirdal (population: 753). On 1 January 1960, Tonstad (population: 651) was merged with Øvre Sirdal and the Øksendal area of Bakke to form a new municipality of Sirdal.[2]
Name
The municipality of Tonstad was named after the old Tonstad farm (Old Norse: Þornýjarstaðir ), since the church is located there. The first element of the name comes from the female name Tone (Old Norse: Þorný) and the last element is staðir which means "homestead" or "farm".[3]
References
- Store norske leksikon. "Tonstad – kommune" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2016-08-11.
- 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. 348.