Hopen (municipality)

Hopen is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The 50-square-kilometre (19 sq mi) municipality existed from 1915 until its dissolution in 1960. It covered the northeastern part of the island of Smøla, plus the small islands to the north such as Veiholmen, Hammarøya, and Haugøya. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Hopen where the Hopen Church is located.[2]

Hopen herred
Former municipality
Møre og Romsdal within
Norway
Hopen within Møre og Romsdal
Coordinates: 63°27′48″N 08°00′50″E
CountryNorway
CountyMøre og Romsdal
DistrictNordmøre
Established1 Jan 1915
Disestablished1 Jan 1960
Administrative centreHopen
Area
 • Total50 km2 (20 sq mi)
 *Area at municipal dissolution.
Population
 (1960)
 • Total1,550
 • Density31/km2 (80/sq mi)
Demonym(s)hopaværing[1]
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 codeNO-1575
Preceded byEdøy
Succeeded bySmøla
Data from Statistics Norway

History

The municipality of Hopen was established on 1 January 1915 when the large municipality of Edøy was split into three to form the new municipalities of Edøy (population: 973), Hopen (population: 1,050), and Brattvær (population: 1,452). During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1960, the 1915 partition was reversed, reuniting the municipalities of Brattvær, Edøy, and Hopen as the new municipality of Smøla. Before the merger, Hopen had a population of 1,550.[3]

Name

The municipality was named after the village of Hopen which was the location of the local church. The name comes from the Old Norse word hópr which means "bay".[2]

See also

References
  1. "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
  2. Thorsnæs, Geir, ed. (2015-12-14). "Hopen – Møre og Romsdal". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
  3. Jukvam, Dag (1999). "Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Statistisk sentralbyrå.
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