Vegusdal

Vegusdal herred
Vegusdal herred
	Former Municipality
	Vegusdal herred Location of the municipality Vegusdal herred Vegusdal herred (Norway)
	Coordinates: 58°34′45″N 08°08′44″E
Country	Norway
Region	Southern Norway
County	Aust-Agder
Municipality ID	NO-0934
Adm. Center	Engesland
Area [1]
• Total	325 km2 (125 sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Created from	Evje og Vegusdal in 1877
Merged into	Birkenes in 1967

Vegusdal is a former municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway. The 325-square-kilometre (125 sq mi) municipality existed from 1877 until its dissolution in 1967. It was located in the northwestern part of the present-day municipality of Birkenes. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Engesland where Vegusdal Church is located. The Norwegian County Road 405 (Fv 405) runs through Vegusdal south to the village of Mosby in Vennesla.[1]

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) of Vegusdal is named after the old Vegusdal farm (Old Norse: Veikolfsdalr). It is derived from the old male name, Veikolfr meaning "weak Ullfr" and the second part is the word dalr which means "valley" or "dale".[2]

History

The municipality was established on 1 January 1877 when the old municipality of Evje og Vegusdal was divided into Vegusdal (population: 935) in the east and Evje (population: 870) in the west. In 1900, the municipality had 985 inhabitants distributed among 141 farms. During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1967, Vegusdal (population: 582) was merged with the neighboring municipalities of Birkenes (population: 1,883) and Herefoss (population: 585).[3]

References

Thorsnæs, Geir, ed. (2014-11-21). "Vegusdal – tidligere kommune". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 2017-06-09.
Rygh, Oluf (1905). Norske gaardnavne: Nedenes amt (in Norwegian) (8 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. p. 169.
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
Map of the old municipality (in Norwegian)

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[snl-1] Thorsnæs, Geir, ed. (2014-11-21). "Vegusdal – tidligere kommune". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 2017-06-09.

[2] Rygh, Oluf (1905). Norske gaardnavne: Nedenes amt (in Norwegian) (8 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. p. 169.

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