Flå, Sør-Trøndelag

Flå Municipality
Flå herred
Former municipality
Flaa herred  (historic name)
Sør-Trøndelag within Norway
Sør-Trøndelag within Norway
Flå within Sør-Trøndelag
Flå within Sør-Trøndelag
Coordinates: 63°11′51″N 10°18′11″E / 63.19750°N 10.30306°E / 63.19750; 10.30306
CountryNorway
CountySør-Trøndelag
DistrictGauldalen
Established1 Jan 1880
 • Preceded byMelhus Municipality
Disestablished1 Jan 1964
 • Succeeded byMelhus Municipality
Administrative centreLer
Population
 (1964)
 • Total
843
DemonymFlåbygg[1]
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 codeNO-1652[2]
Data from Statistics Norway

Flå is a former municipality in the old Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The approximately 110-square-kilometre (42 sq mi) municipality existed from 1880 until its dissolution in 1964. Flå was located in the eastern part of what is now the municipality of Melhus in Trøndelag county. The administrative centre was the village of Ler. The main church for the area is Flå Church.[3]

History

View of Ler in 1906

The municipality of Flaa was established in 1880 when the municipality of Melhus was divided into two. The new municipality of Flaa had an initial population of 614. The spelling was later changed to Flå. During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1964, the neighboring municipalities of Hølonda (population: 1,428), Horg (population: 2,560), Flå (population: 843), Melhus (population: 3,978), and the Langørgen farm (population: 11) in Buvik were all merged to form a new, larger municipality of Melhus.[4]

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Flå farm (Old Norse: Flár) since the first Flå Church was built there. The name is the plural form of flá which means "a flat ledge on a mountainside".[5] On 21 December 1917, a royal resolution enacted the 1917 Norwegian language reforms. Prior to this change, the name was spelled Flaa with the digraph "aa", and after this reform, the name was spelled Flå, using the letter å instead.[6][7]

Government

During its existence, this municipality was governed by a municipal council of elected representatives, which in turn elected a mayor.[8]

Mayors

The mayors of Flå:[9]

  • 1880–1894: Erik Andersen Kirkflaa (MV)
  • 1895–1898: Ole J. Bolland (MV)
  • 1899–1901: Lars Busklein (H)
  • 1902–1910: Nils Johnsen Borten (H)
  • 1911–1913: Henrik Larsen Reitan (H)
  • 1914–1916: O.K. Solstad (V)
  • 1917–1919: Ole A. Flaarønning (H)
  • 1920–1922: O.K. Solstad (V)
  • 1923–1925: Henrik Larsen Reitan (Bp)
  • 1926–1941: Eyvind Borten (Bp)
  • 1941–1945: Erik Engan (NS)
  • 1945-1945: Anders Krigsvoll (V)
  • 1946–1955: Per Borten (Bp)
  • 1956–1959: Håkon Dahl(Bp)
  • 1960–1963: Ingebrigt Bjørseth (Sp)

Municipal council

The municipal council (Herredsstyre) of Flå was made up of representatives that were elected to four year terms. The party breakdown of the final municipal council was as follows:

Flå herredsstyre 1960–1963 [10]  
Party name (in Norwegian) Number of
representatives
  Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet) 5
  Communist Party (Kommunistiske Parti) 1
  Centre Party (Senterpartiet) 6
  Liberal Party (Venstre) 1
Total number of members:13
Flå herredsstyre 1956–1959 [11]  
Party name (in Norwegian) Number of
representatives
  Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet) 5
  Communist Party (Kommunistiske Parti) 1
  Farmers' Party (Bondepartiet) 6
  Liberal Party (Venstre) 1
Total number of members:13
Flå herredsstyre 1952–1955 [12]  
Party name (in Norwegian) Number of
representatives
  Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet) 4
  Communist Party (Kommunistiske Parti) 1
  Farmers' Party (Bondepartiet) 6
  Liberal Party (Venstre) 1
Total number of members:12
Flå herredsstyre 1948–1951 [13]  
Party name (in Norwegian) Number of
representatives
  Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet) 4
  Communist Party (Kommunistiske Parti) 1
  Christian Democratic Party (Kristelig Folkeparti) 1
  Farmers' Party (Bondepartiet) 5
  Liberal Party (Venstre) 1
Total number of members:12
Flå herredsstyre 1945–1947 [14]  
Party name (in Norwegian) Number of
representatives
  Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet) 4
  Communist Party (Kommunistiske Parti) 1
  Christian Democratic Party (Kristelig Folkeparti) 1
  Liberal Party (Venstre) 2
  Local List(s) (Lokale lister) 4
Total number of members:12
Flå herredsstyre 1938–1941* [15]  
Party name (in Norwegian) Number of
representatives
  Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet) 3
  Communist Party (Kommunistiske Parti) 1
  Farmers' Party (Bondepartiet) 5
  Liberal Party (Venstre) 3
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

See also

References

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  2. ^ Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (26 January 2023). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.
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  7. ^ Den Nye rettskrivning : regler og ordlister (in Norwegian). Kristiania, Norge: Den Mallingske Boktrykkeri. 1918.
  8. ^ Hansen, Tore; Vabo, Signy Irene, eds. (20 September 2022). "kommunestyre". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
  9. ^ Flårønning, Sigurd (1978). "Flå". In Fiskaa, Haakon M.; Myckland, Haakon Falck (eds.). Norges bebyggelse. Nordlige seksjon. Herredsbindet for Sør-Trøndelag. Østre del. I–II (in Norwegian). Trondheim: Faglitteratur. pp. 116–125.
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  12. ^ "Kommunevalgene og Ordførervalgene 1951" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Oslo: Statistisk sentralbyrå. 1952. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  13. ^ "Kommunevalgene og Ordførervalgene 1947" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Oslo: Statistisk sentralbyrå. 1948. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  14. ^ "Kommunevalgene og Ordførervalgene 1945" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Oslo: Statistisk sentralbyrå. 1947. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  15. ^ "Kommunevalgene og Ordførervalgene 1937" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Oslo: Statistisk sentralbyrå. 1938. Retrieved 20 April 2020.