Evje
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Evje is a former municipality in the old Aust-Agder county in Norway. The Script error: No such module "convert". municipality[1] existed from 1877 until 1960. It was located in what is now the eastern part of the present-day municipality of Evje og Hornnes in the Setesdal valley of Agder county. The administrative centre was the village of Evje where the Evje Church is located.[2] The lake Høvringsvatnet is located about Script error: No such module "convert". northeast of the village.
History
The municipality of Evje was created on 1 January 1877 when the old municipality of Evje og Vegusdal was divided into Evje (population: 870) and Vegusdal (population: 935). During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1960, Evje (population: 1,646) was merged with the neighboring municipality of Hornnes (population: 1,280) to form the new municipality of Evje og Hornnes.[3]
Name
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Evje farm (Template:Langx) since the first Evje Church was built there. The name is identical to the word Template:Wikt-lang which means "backwater" or "mud" (likely referring to a shallow, backwater part of the local river Otra).[4]
Government
While it existed, this municipality was responsible for primary education (through 10th grade), outpatient health services, senior citizen services, unemployment, social services, zoning, economic development, and municipal roads. During its existence, this municipality was governed by a municipal council of directly elected representatives. The mayor was indirectly elected by a vote of the municipal council.[5]
Municipal council
The municipal council Script error: No such module "Lang". of Evje was made up of 17 representatives that were elected to four year terms. The tables below show the historical composition of the council by political party.
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| Party name (in Norwegian) | Number of representatives | |
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| Labour Party Script error: No such module "Lang". | 11 | |
| Christian Democratic Party Script error: No such module "Lang". | 2 | |
| Farmers' Party Script error: No such module "Lang". | 2 | |
| Liberal Party Script error: No such module "Lang". | 2 | |
| Total number of members: | 17 | |
| Party name (in Norwegian) | Number of representatives | |
|---|---|---|
| Labour Party Script error: No such module "Lang". | 10 | |
| Christian Democratic Party Script error: No such module "Lang". | 2 | |
| Joint List(s) of Non-Socialist Parties Script error: No such module "Lang". | 4 | |
| Total number of members: | 16 | |
| Party name (in Norwegian) | Number of representatives | |
|---|---|---|
| Labour Party Script error: No such module "Lang". | 8 | |
| Communist Party Script error: No such module "Lang". | 2 | |
| Christian Democratic Party Script error: No such module "Lang". | 2 | |
| Joint List(s) of Non-Socialist Parties Script error: No such module "Lang". | 4 | |
| Total number of members: | 16 | |
| Party name (in Norwegian) | Number of representatives | |
|---|---|---|
| Labour Party Script error: No such module "Lang". | 10 | |
| Communist Party Script error: No such module "Lang". | 2 | |
| Farmers' Party Script error: No such module "Lang". | 1 | |
| Joint list of the Liberal Party Script error: No such module "Lang". and the Radical People's Party Script error: No such module "Lang". | 3 | |
| Total number of members: | 16 | |
| Party name (in Norwegian) | Number of representatives | |
|---|---|---|
| Labour Party Script error: No such module "Lang". | 10 | |
| Farmers' Party Script error: No such module "Lang". | 2 | |
| Liberal Party Script error: No such module "Lang". | 4 | |
| Total number of members: | 16 | |
| Note: Due to the German occupation of Norway during World War II, no elections were held for new municipal councils until after the war ended in 1945. | ||
Mayors
The mayors (Template:Langx) of Evje:[11][12]
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- 1877-1877: Salve E. Bjoraa
- 1878-1881: Ola N. Løvland
- 1882-1893: Ola G. Lauvland
- 1894-1901: Ola N. Galteland
- 1902-1910: Ola N. Løvland
- 1910-1919: Eirik S. Bjoraa
- 1920-1922: Nils T. Odde
- 1923-1925: Ola N. Galteland
- 1926-1928: John A. Syrtveit
- 1928-1940: Torvald Haavardstad
- 1945-1959: Torvald Haavardstad
Notable people
- Torvald Haavardstad (1893–1965), a Norwegian politician
- Helena Iren Michaelsen (born 1977), a Norwegian rock singer
See also
References
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External links
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