Hjørundfjord Municipality

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Hjørundfjord is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The Script error: No such module "convert". municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1964. The area is now part of Ørsta Municipality in the traditional district of Sunnmøre. The administrative centre was the village of Sæbø, located on the shores of the Hjørundfjorden. The villages of Bjørke, Leira, and Store Standal were all a part Hjørundfjord Municipality.^[1]

Prior to its dissolution in 1964, the Script error: No such module "convert". municipality was the 204th largest by area out of the 689 municipalities in Norway. Hjørundfjord Municipality was the 480th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of about 1,776. The municipality's population density was Script error: No such module "convert". and its population had decreased by 3.2% over the previous 10-year period.^[2]^[3]

General information

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View of the Hjørundfjord Church (c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".)

The municipality was established on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt law). The original municipality was the same as the prestegjeld (parish) of Hjørundfjord. During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1964, Hjørundfjord Municipality (population: 1,728), Vartdal Municipality (population: 1,315), and Ørsta Municipality (population: 6,209) were merged to form a new, larger Ørsta Municipality.^[4]

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the local Hjørundfjorden (Template:Langx). The first element is the old name of the fjord, Template:Langx. This origin of this name is uncertain, but it may have come from the word Template:Wikt-lang which means "sword". The last element is Template:Wikt-lang which means "fjord".^[5]

Churches

The Church of Norway had one parish (Script error: No such module "Lang".) within Hjørundfjord Municipality. At the time of the municipal dissolution, it was part of the Hjørundfjord prestegjeld and the Søre Sunnmøre prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Bjørgvin.^[3]

**Churches in Hjørundfjord**
Parish (Script error: No such module "Lang".)	Church name	Location of the church	Year built
Hjørundfjord	Hjørundfjord Church	Sæbø	1880

Geography

The municipality encircled both sides of the Hjørundfjorden as well as the Bondalen valley. The highest point in the municipality was the Script error: No such module "convert". tall mountain Smørskredtindane, whose peak was located about Script error: No such module "convert". from the border with Stranda Municipality.^[6] Vartdal Municipality was located to the northwest, Ørsta Municipality was located to the west, Volda Municipality was located to the southwest, Hornindal Municipality was located to the south (in Sogn og Fjordane county), Sunnylven Municipality was located to the southeast, Stranda Municipality was located to the east, and Sykkylven Municipality was located to the northeast.

Government

While it existed, Hjørundfjord Municipality was responsible for primary education (through 10th grade), outpatient health services, senior citizen services, welfare and other social services, zoning, economic development, and municipal roads and utilities. The municipality was governed by a municipal council of directly elected representatives. The mayor was indirectly elected by a vote of the municipal council.^[7] The municipality was under the jurisdiction of the Frostating Court of Appeal.

Municipal council

The municipal council Script error: No such module "Lang". of Hjørundfjord 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.