Øvrebø

For the football referee, see Tom Henning Øvrebø.
Øvrebø herred
Former Municipality
Coordinates: 58°21′58″N 07°46′39″E / 58.36611°N 7.77750°E / 58.36611; 7.77750Coordinates: 58°21′58″N 07°46′39″E / 58.36611°N 7.77750°E / 58.36611; 7.77750
Country Norway
County Vest-Agder
District Sørlandet
Municipality ID NO-1016
Adm. Center Skarpengland
Created as Formannskapsdistrikt in 1838
Merged into Vennesla in 1964

Øvrebø is a rural district, a village, and a former municipality in Vest-Agder county in Norway. It is located in the present-day municipality of Vennesla, situated about 25 km (16 mi) north-northwest of Kristiansand.

Øvrebø's centre is the settlement of Skarpengland, which houses, amongst other facilities, a bank, a post office, several stores, a motor repair shop, and a school. Øvrebø is known for the "Øvrebø ski", found at Mushom and considered for many years to be Norway's oldest preserved ski. It can be seen in the Holmenkollen Ski Museum in Oslo.

Name

Øvrebø is named after the old Øvrebø farm (Old Norse: Øfribœr), since the first church was built there. The first part of the name means "upper" and second part of the name is identical with the word bœr which means "farm" and it is cognate with the Dutch language word "boer" which means "farmer". The name therefore means "the upper farm".[1]

History

The parish of Øvrebø was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). It existed as a municipality until 1865, when the area of Vennesla (population: 1,103) was separated to form a separate municipality. The remainder of the municipality became Øvrebø og Hægeland. On 1 July 1896, Øvrebø og Hægeland was divided into two separate municipalities: Øvrebø (population: 888) and Hægeland (population: 843). On 1 January 1964, the Eikeland area (population: 39) of Øvrebø was transferred to neighboring Songdalen municipality, while the rest of Øvrebø (population: 925) was merged with Hægeland and Vennesla to form a new, larger municipality of Vennesla.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Rygh, Oluf (1912). Norske gaardnavne: Lister og Mandals amt (in Norwegian) (9 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. p. 36.
  2. ↑ Jukvam, Dag (1999). "Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Statistisk sentralbyrå.

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