Landvik

Landvik Municipality
Landvik kommune
Landvig herred  (historic name)
Hommedal herred  (historic name)
View of the local church
View of the local church
Aust-Agder within Norway
Aust-Agder within Norway
Landvik within Aust-Agder
Landvik within Aust-Agder
Coordinates: 58°20′24″N 08°31′13″E / 58.34000°N 8.52028°E / 58.34000; 8.52028
CountryNorway
CountyAust-Agder
DistrictØstre Agder
Established1 Jan 1838
 • Created asFormannskapsdistrikt
Disestablished1 Jan 1971
 • Succeeded byGrimstad Municipality
Administrative centreRoresanden
Area
 (upon dissolution)[1]
 • Total
223.1 km2 (86.1 sq mi)
Population
 (1971)
 • Total
2,781
 • Density12/km2 (32/sq mi)
Official language
 • Norwegian formNynorsk[2]
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 codeNO-0924[4]

Landvik is a former municipality in the old Aust-Agder county in Norway. The 223.1-square-kilometre (86.1 sq mi) municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1971. The municipality's area is now located in the western and central part of the present-day municipality of Grimstad. The administrative centre was the village of Roresanden, just up the hill from the Landvik Church. Other villages in Landvik include Molland, Reddal, Skiftenes, Tjore, and Østerhus. Today, the name Landvik is still used to designate the westernmost part of the municipality of Grimstad, near the Prestegårdskogen housing development.[1][5]

  1. ^ a b Kiær, Anders Nicolai; Helland, Amund; Vibe, Johan; Strøm, Boye (1904). "Landvig herred". Norges land og folk: Nedenes amt (in Norwegian). Norway: H. Aschehoug & Company. p. 348. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  2. ^ "Norsk Lovtidende. 2den Afdeling. 1932. Samling af Love, Resolutioner m.m". Norsk Lovtidend (in Norwegian). Oslo, Norway: Grøndahl og Søns Boktrykkeri: 453–471. 1932.
  3. ^ "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
  4. ^ Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (26 January 2023). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.
  5. ^ Thorsnæs, Geir, ed. (19 July 2015). "Landvik – tidligere kommune". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 7 November 2017.