Fron Municipality
Fron herred | |
|---|---|
 View of the Fron area | |
 Oppland within Norway | |
 Fron within Oppland | |
| Coordinates: 61°35′24″N 9°46′35″E / 61.5901°N 9.7764°E | |
| Country | Norway |
| County | Oppland |
| District | Gudbrandsdal |
| Established | 1 Jan 1838 |
| • Created as | Formannskapsdistrikt |
| Disestablished | 1 Jan 1851 |
| • Succeeded by | Nord-Fron and Sør-Fron municipalities |
| Re-established | 1 Jan 1966 |
| • Preceded by | Nord-Fron and Sør-Fron municipalities |
| Disestablished | 1 Jan 1977 |
| • Succeeded by | Nord-Fron and Sør-Fron municipalities |
| Administrative centre | Hundorp |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (1976-1977) | Asbjørn Myrvang (Ap) |
| Area (upon dissolution) | |
• Total | 2,388.90 km2 (922.36 sq mi) |
| • Land | 1,803.37 km2 (696.29 sq mi) |
| • Water | 80.16 km2 (30.95 sq mi) 3.4% |
| Population (1977) | |
• Total | 9,640 |
| • Density | 4.0/km2 (10/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Frøning[1] |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| ISO 3166 code | NO-0518[2] |
Fron is a former municipality in the old Oppland county, Norway. The 2,389-square-kilometre (922 sq mi) municipality has existed twice: from 1838-1851 and again from 1966-1977. The municipality was dissolved in 1977 and split up into the present-day municipalities of Nord-Fron and Sør-Fron which are both part of Innlandet county. The administrative centre of Fron was the village of Hundorp where the Sør-Fron Church is located.[3]
- ^ "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
- ^ Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (26 January 2023). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.
- ^ Thorsnæs, Geir, ed. (12 August 2019). "Fron". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 8 June 2022.