Oddernes (municipality)

Oddernes Municipality
Oddernes herred
Former municipality
Oddernæs herred  (historic name)
Vest-Agder within Norway
Vest-Agder within Norway
Oddernes within Vest-Agder
Oddernes within Vest-Agder
Coordinates: 58°09′35″N 8°00′48″E / 58.1597°N 08.0134°E / 58.1597; 08.0134
CountryNorway
CountyVest-Agder
DistrictSørlandet
Established1 Jan 1838
 • Created asFormannskapsdistrikt
Disestablished1 Jan 1965
 • Succeeded byKristiansand Municipality
Administrative centreLund
Area
 (upon dissolution)
 • Total
103 km2 (40 sq mi)
Population
 (1965)
 • Total
18,668
 • Density180/km2 (470/sq mi)
Official language
[2]
 • Norwegian formNeutral[1]
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 codeNO-1012[3]
Data from Statistics Norway

Oddernes is a former municipality that was located in the old Vest-Agder county in Norway. The 103-square-kilometre (40 sq mi) municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1964. The administrative centre was the village of Lund on the east side of the river Otra near where Lund Church is located. The former area of the municipality makes up the area just west of the urban town of Kristiansand within the municipality of Kristiansand in Agder county. The old municipality encircled the town of Kristiansand, and it included the villages such as Flekkerøy, Vågsbygd, Slettheia, Lund, Strai, Mosby, and Justvik. Today, the town of Kristiansand has a borough named Oddernes, but it has very different boundaries than the old municipality had.[4]

  1. ^ "Norsk Lovtidende. 2den Afdeling. 1932. Samling af Love, Resolutioner m.m". Norsk Lovtidend (in Norwegian). Oslo, Norway: Grøndahl og Søns Boktrykkeri: 453–471. 1932.
  2. ^ "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
  3. ^ Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (26 January 2023). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference snl was invoked but never defined (see the help page).