Sør-Aurdal

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Sør-Aurdal is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Valdres. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Bagn. Other villages in the municipality include Begna, Hedalen, and Begnadalen.[1]

The Script error: No such module "convert". municipality is the 101st largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Sør-Aurdal is the 233rd most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,866. The municipality's population density is Script error: No such module "convert". and its population has decreased by 8.9% over the previous 10-year period.[2][3]

General information

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View over Bagn from Øystre Bagn, with Vestre Bagn to the left and Reinli in the background. Down by the river is the administrative center Bagn.

The parish of Søndre Aurdal was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt law). On 1 January 1894, the new Etnedal Municipality was established by merging the eastern valley area of Nordre Etnedal (population: 362) from the neighboring Nordre Aurdal municipality and the Søndre Etnedal area (population: 1,331) from the neighboring municipality of Søndre Aurdal. Then on 1 January 1984, the unpopulated northern side of the Makalaus mountain was transferred from Sør-Aurdal to Nord-Aurdal.[4][1]

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the Aurdalen valley (Template:Langx) since it was a central geographic feature of the area. The first word in the name is Template:Wikt-lang which is essentially a prefix that means "south". The second word comes from the local valley name. The first element of that word is the genitive case of the old river name, Script error: No such module "Lang"., now named Script error: No such module "Lang".. The river name comes from the word Template:Wikt-lang which means "gravel". The last element of the second word is Template:Wikt-lang which means "valley" or "dale". Historically, the name of the municipality was spelled Søndre Aurdal. On 3 November 1917, a royal resolution changed the spelling of the name of the municipality to Sør-Aurdal.[5] Both Template:Wikt-lang and Template:Wikt-lang mean "south" (more specifically, "søndre" means "southern"), so the name Sør-Aurdal means "(the) southern (part of) Aurdal". (The Church of Norway parish of Aurdal that had existed for centuries was divided into two in 1805, just over 30 years before the parish borders were used to defin the new municipality that was established in 1838.)[6] Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote".

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was granted by royal decree on 9 February 1990. The official blazon is "Azure, a box reliquary Or" (Template:Langx). This means the arms have a blue field (background) and the charge is a reliquary. The charge has a tincture of Or which means it is commonly colored yellow, but if it is made out of metal, then gold is used. The arms show the silhouette of a gilt-copper medieval reliquary (chasse). It was designed to look like the one found in the Hedal Stave Church, except that this one has five blue arches which are inspired by the arches on a similar medieval chasse from the nearby medieval St. Thomas Church at Filefjell (now in the Bergen Museum) and representing the five Church of Norway parishes of the municipality (Bagn, Reinli, Hedalen, Bruflat, and Begnadalen). It also has two dragon heads in the design since Sør-Aurdal is one of only two municipalities in Norway that have two stave churches that are still in use. The color blue was chosen to represent the two river systems in the municipality that were historically important for the logging industry and sawmills in Sør-Aurdal. The arms were designed by Arvid Sveen. The municipal flag has the same design as the coat of arms.[7][8][9][10]

Churches

The Church of Norway has five parishes (Script error: No such module "Lang".) within the municipality of Sør-Aurdal. It is part of the Valdres prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Hamar.

Churches in Sør-Aurdal
Parish (Script error: No such module "Lang".) Church name Location of the church Year built
Bagn Bagn Church Bagn 1736
Begnadalen Begnadalen Church Begnadalen 1964
Hedalen Hedalen Stave Church Hedalen c. 1165
Leirskogen Leirskogen Church Leirskogen 1924
Reinli Reinli Stave Church Reinli 1326
Reinli Chapel Reinli 1964

Geography

Sør-Aurdal municipality is bordered on the north by the municipalities of Nord-Aurdal and Etnedal, on the northeast by Nordre Land, on the east by Søndre Land (all of which are in Innlandet county). It is also bordered on the south by Ringerike and Flå municipalities, and on the west by Nesbyen and Gol municipalities (all of which are in Buskerud).

Sør-Aurdal is part of the traditional district of Valdres in central, southern Norway, situated between the Gudbrandsdal and Hallingdal valleys. Sør-Aurdal includes parts of several smaller valleys including Begnadalen, Hedalen, Vassfaret, and Vidalen. The river Begna is the main river flowing through the municipality.

History

Number of minorities (1st and 2nd generation) in Sør-Aurdal by country of origin in 2017[11]
Ancestry Number
File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands 28
File:Flag of Romania.svg Romania 20
File:Flag of the Syrian revolution.svg Syria 19
File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany 17
File:Flag of Iraq.svg Iraq 16

Reinli Stave Church (built 1190-1250) is the third church on the same location in Reinli. A new tower was added in 1685 and the building was reconditioned by the Society for Preservation of Ancient Buildings in 1885.[12]

Olaf Haraldsson traveled through Valdres in 1023, and also visited Reinli. It is assumed, then, that there was a pagan temple at the same location before the first church, some time before the year 1000.[12]

Hedal Stave Church was built after 1160 and in 1699 it was rebuilt and changed. An old legend says the valley was abandoned during the Black Death and the church later discovered by a bear hunter. A hide is hanging in the church, although now there is only a small part left as visitors have cut away pieces over the years.[12]

Government

Sør-Aurdal Municipality is 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 is governed by a municipal council of directly elected representatives. The mayor is indirectly elected by a vote of the municipal council.[13] The municipality is under the jurisdiction of the Vestre Innlandet District Court and the Eidsivating Court of Appeal.

Municipal council

The municipal council Script error: No such module "Lang". of Sør-Aurdal is made up of 19 representatives that are elected to four year terms. The tables below show the current and historical composition of the council by political party.

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Sør-Aurdal kommunestyre 2023–2027 [14]  
Party name (in Norwegian) Number of
representatives
  Labour Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 6
  Progress Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 2
  Conservative Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 2
  Centre Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 9
Total number of members:19
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Sør-Aurdal kommunestyre 2019–2023 [15]  
Party name (in Norwegian) Number of
representatives
  Labour Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 6
  Progress Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 1
  Conservative Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 2
  Centre Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 9
 Cross-party municipal list Script error: No such module "Lang".1
Total number of members:19
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Sør-Aurdal kommunestyre 2015–2019 [16][17]  
Party name (in Norwegian) Number of
representatives
  Labour Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 6
  Progress Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 1
  Conservative Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 2
  Christian Democratic Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 2
  Centre Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 12
 Cross-party municipal list Script error: No such module "Lang".2
Total number of members:25
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Sør-Aurdal kommunestyre 2011–2015 [18]  
Party name (in Norwegian) Number of
representatives
  Labour Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 8
  Progress Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 3
  Conservative Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 2
  Christian Democratic Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 1
  Centre Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 8
 Cross-party municipal list Script error: No such module "Lang".3
Total number of members:25
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Sør-Aurdal kommunestyre 2007–2011 [17]  
Party name (in Norwegian) Number of
representatives
  Labour Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 8
  Progress Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 4
  Conservative Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 1
  Christian Democratic Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 1
  Centre Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 8
 Cross-party municipal list Script error: No such module "Lang".3
Total number of members:25
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Sør-Aurdal kommunestyre 2003–2007 [17]  
Party name (in Norwegian) Number of
representatives
  Labour Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 10
  Conservative Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 2
  Christian Democratic Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 2
  Centre Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 5
  Socialist Left Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 2
 Cross-party municipal list Script error: No such module "Lang".4
Total number of members:25
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Sør-Aurdal kommunestyre 1999–2003 [17][19]  
Party name (in Norwegian) Number of
representatives
  Labour Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 11
  Conservative Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 3
  Christian Democratic Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 2
  Centre Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 3
 Cross-party municipal list Script error: No such module "Lang".6
Total number of members:25
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Sør-Aurdal kommunestyre 1995–1999 [20]  
Party name (in Norwegian) Number of
representatives
  Labour Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 10
  Conservative Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 3
  Socialist Left Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 1
  Joint list of the Centre Party Script error: No such module "Lang". and the Christian Democratic Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 9
 Cross-party municipal list Script error: No such module "Lang".2
Total number of members:25
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Sør-Aurdal kommunestyre 1991–1995 [21]  
Party name (in Norwegian) Number of
representatives
  Labour Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 9
  Christian Democratic Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 1
  Socialist Left Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 2
  Joint list of the Conservative Party Script error: No such module "Lang"., Centre Party Script error: No such module "Lang"., and Liberal Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 13
Total number of members:25
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Sør-Aurdal kommunestyre 1987–1991 [22]  
Party name (in Norwegian) Number of
representatives
  Labour Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 13
  Conservative Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 3
  Christian Democratic Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 2
  Centre Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 6
  Socialist Left Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 1
Total number of members:25
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Sør-Aurdal kommunestyre 1983–1987 [23]  
Party name (in Norwegian) Number of
representatives
  Labour Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 14
  Conservative Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 3
  Christian Democratic Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 2
  Centre Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 5
  Liberal Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 1
Total number of members:25
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Sør-Aurdal kommunestyre 1979–1983 [24]  
Party name (in Norwegian) Number of
representatives
  Labour Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 13
  Conservative Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 4
  Christian Democratic Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 2
  Centre Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 5
  Liberal Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 1
Total number of members:25
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Sør-Aurdal kommunestyre 1975–1979 [25]  
Party name (in Norwegian) Number of
representatives
  Labour Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 13
  Conservative Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 1
  Christian Democratic Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 3
  Centre Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 6
  Socialist Left Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 1
  Liberal Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 1
Total number of members:25
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Sør-Aurdal kommunestyre 1971–1975 [26]  
Party name (in Norwegian) Number of
representatives
  Labour Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 14
  Christian Democratic Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 2
  Liberal Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 1
  Joint List(s) of Non-Socialist Parties Script error: No such module "Lang". 8
Total number of members:25
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Sør-Aurdal kommunestyre 1967–1971 [27]  
Party name (in Norwegian) Number of
representatives
  Labour Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 15
  Christian Democratic Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 1
  Joint List(s) of Non-Socialist Parties Script error: No such module "Lang". 9
Total number of members:25
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Sør-Aurdal kommunestyre 1963–1967 [28]  
Party name (in Norwegian) Number of
representatives
  Labour Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 15
  Christian Democratic Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 1
  Joint List(s) of Non-Socialist Parties Script error: No such module "Lang". 8
  Local List(s) Script error: No such module "Lang". 1
Total number of members:25
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Sør-Aurdal herredsstyre 1959–1963 [29]  
Party name (in Norwegian) Number of
representatives
  Labour Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 14
  Christian Democratic Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 2
  Joint List(s) of Non-Socialist Parties Script error: No such module "Lang". 8
  Local List(s) Script error: No such module "Lang". 1
Total number of members:25
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Sør-Aurdal herredsstyre 1955–1959 [30]  
Party name (in Norwegian) Number of
representatives
  Labour Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 14
  Christian Democratic Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 2
  Joint List(s) of Non-Socialist Parties Script error: No such module "Lang". 9
Total number of members:25
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Sør-Aurdal herredsstyre 1951–1955 [31]  
Party name (in Norwegian) Number of
representatives
  Labour Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 18
  Joint List(s) of Non-Socialist Parties Script error: No such module "Lang". 14
Total number of members:32
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Sør-Aurdal herredsstyre 1947–1951 [32]  
Party name (in Norwegian) Number of
representatives
  Labour Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 14
  Communist Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 3
  Farmers' Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 4
  Joint list of the Liberal Party Script error: No such module "Lang". and the Radical People's Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 2
  Joint List(s) of Non-Socialist Parties Script error: No such module "Lang". 9
Total number of members:32
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Sør-Aurdal herredsstyre 1945–1947 [33]  
Party name (in Norwegian) Number of
representatives
  Labour Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 13
  Communist Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 3
  Joint List(s) of Non-Socialist Parties Script error: No such module "Lang". 7
  Local List(s) Script error: No such module "Lang". 9
Total number of members:32
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Sør-Aurdal herredsstyre 1937–1940* [34]  
Party name (in Norwegian) Number of
representatives
  Labour Party Script error: No such module "Lang". 14
  Joint List(s) of Non-Socialist Parties Script error: No such module "Lang". 14
  Local List(s) Script error: No such module "Lang". 4
Total number of members:32
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.
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Mayors

The mayors (Template:Langx) of Sør-Aurdal:[35]

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  • 1838-1842: Ole Ellingsen Østvold
  • 1842-1845: Christoffer Juckam
  • 1846-1849: Johan H. Corneliussen
  • 1850-1851: Lars K. Kirkeberg
  • 1852-1859: Erik Tidemandsen Wold
  • 1860-1860: John Nilsen Fjeld
  • 1860-1863: Lars K. Kirkeberg
  • 1864-1871: Mikkel Sörböen
  • 1872-1881: Erling Wold
  • 1882-1883: Ole G. Nerbye
  • 1884-1891: Erling Wold
  • 1892-1893: Ole M. Øvergaard
  • 1894-1898: Erling Wold
  • 1899-1904: Arne Fönhus, Jr.
  • 1905-1907: Erling Wold
  • 1908-1913: Ole M. Øvergaard
  • 1914-1919: Ole O. Tronrud
  • 1920-1925: Arne H. Grøv
  • 1926-1927: Kristoffer Eid
  • 1928-1931: Eirik Klemmetsrud
  • 1932-1940: Arne H. Grøv (V)
  • 1941-1944: Kristoffer Eid (NS)
  • 1945-1945: Arne H. Grøv (V)
  • 1946-1963: Harald Bakken (Ap)
  • 1964-1981: Hallgrim Tronrud (Ap)
  • 1982-1991: Kristoffer Storruste (Ap)
  • 1992-1999: Svein Thorsrud (Sp)
  • 1999-2007: Knut Torgersen (Ap)
  • 2007–2019: Kåre Helland (Sp)
  • 2019–present: Marit Hougsrud (Sp)

Media gallery

Attractions

  • Bagn Bygdesamling is a museum that is associated with Valdres Folkemuseum. It is located Script error: No such module "convert". south of Bagn. It consists of twelve log houses and a building for permanent displays. A part of the museum is at Sandviken and the farm is Bagnsbergatn.
  • Bautahaugen Samlinger is another museum that is also associated with Valdres Folkemuseum. It is located in the middle of Hedalen. It consists of a collection of houses and items from Hedalen. The Hedal Stave Church is located just nearby.

Notable residents

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Rolf Otto Andvord, 1909

References

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