Eide, Aust-Agder

This article is about the former municipality in Aust-Agder, Norway. For other uses, see Eide (disambiguation).

Eide is a former municipality in the old Aust-Agder county in Norway. It is currently located within the municipality of Grimstad in Agder county. The municipality of Eide existed from 1838 until 1962. The 32.4-square-kilometre (12.5 sq mi) municipality included 29.2 square kilometres (11.3 sq mi) of land on the mainland and the rest being nearly 70 small islands off the Skaggerak coast. The larger islands include Auseøya, Homborøya, and Ålesøya.^[1] The administrative centre was the village of Eide where the Eide Church is located. Other villages in Eide included Jortveit and Homborsund.

Eide Municipality Eide herred
Former municipality
View of Eide Church
Aust-Agder within Norway
Eide within Aust-Agder
Coordinates: 58°16′11″N 08°28′41″E
Country	Norway
County	Aust-Agder
District	Østre Agder
Established	1 Jan 1838
• Created as	Formannskapsdistrikt
Disestablished	1 Jan 1964
• Succeeded by	Landvik Municipality
Administrative centre	Eide
Area  (upon dissolution)[1]
• Total	32.4 km2 (12.5 sq mi)
Population  (1962)
• Total	504
• Density	16/km2 (40/sq mi)
Demonym	Eidesokning[2]
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	NO-0925[3]
Data from Statistics Norway

History

Map of the old Eide municipality.

The municipality of Eide was created on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt law). During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1962, the area of Gitmarkgårdene, with 22 inhabitants, was incorporated into the neighboring municipality of Lillesand. The rest of the municipality of Eide, with 504 inhabitants, was merged into the neighboring municipality of Landvik. Later, in 1971, Landvik was incorporated into the municipality of Grimstad.^[4]

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Eide farm (Old Norse: Eiði) since the first Eide Church was built there. The name is the dative case of the word eið which means "isthmus". Tis is because the farm (and church) is located between two bodies of water: the Fosdalskilen and Engekilen.^[1][5]

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.^[6]

Municipal council

The municipal council (Herredsstyre) of Eide was made up of 13 representatives that were elected to four year terms. The tables below show the historical composition of the council by political party.

Eide herredsstyre 1960–1963 ^[7]  

Party name (in Norwegian)		Number of representatives
	Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet)	2
	Conservative Party (Høyre)	4
	Centre Party (Senterpartiet)	7
Total number of members:		13

Eide herredsstyre 1956–1959 ^[8]  

Party name (in Norwegian)		Number of representatives
	Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet)	2
	Conservative Party (Høyre)	4
	Farmers' Party (Bondepartiet)	6
	Liberal Party (Venstre)	1
Total number of members:		13

Eide herredsstyre 1952–1955 ^[9]  

Party name (in Norwegian)		Number of representatives
	Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet)	2
	Joint List(s) of Non-Socialist Parties (Borgerlige Felleslister)	10
Total number of members:		12

Eide herredsstyre 1948–1951 ^[10]  

Party name (in Norwegian)		Number of representatives
	Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet)	2
	Joint List(s) of Non-Socialist Parties (Borgerlige Felleslister)	10
Total number of members:		12

Eide herredsstyre 1945–1947 ^[11]  

Party name (in Norwegian)		Number of representatives
	Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet)	2
	Joint List(s) of Non-Socialist Parties (Borgerlige Felleslister)	10
Total number of members:		12

Eide herredsstyre 1938–1941* ^[12]  

Party name (in Norwegian)		Number of representatives
	Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet)	2
	Joint List(s) of Non-Socialist Parties (Borgerlige Felleslister)	10
Total number of members:		12
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.

Notable people

• Reidar Haave Olsen (1923-1944), a pilot

See also

• List of former municipalities of Norway