Ogna (municipality)

Ogna Municipality
Ogna herred
Ogne herred  (historic name)
View of the local Ogna Church
View of the local Ogna Church
Rogaland within Norway
Rogaland within Norway
Ogna within Rogaland
Ogna within Rogaland
Coordinates: 58°30′56″N 05°48′29″E / 58.51556°N 5.80806°E / 58.51556; 5.80806
CountryNorway
CountyRogaland
DistrictJæren
Established1839
 • Preceded byEigersund Municipality
Disestablished1 Jan 1964
 • Succeeded byHå Municipality
Administrative centreOgna
Area
 (upon dissolution)
 • Total104 km2 (40 sq mi)
Population
 (1964)
 • Total1,470
 • Density14/km2 (37/sq mi)
DemonymOgnabu[1]
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 codeNO-1117[2]

Ogna is a former municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The 104-square-kilometre (40 sq mi) municipality existed from 1839 until its dissolution in 1964. The municipality encompassed roughly the southern third of the present-day municipality of . The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Ogna where the Ogna Church is located.[3][4]

  1. ^ "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
  2. ^ Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (26 January 2023). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.
  3. ^ Store norske leksikon. "Ogna – tidligere kommune" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 5 June 2016.
  4. ^ Lindtjørn, Morten (1938). Ogna herad i hundre år: 1838-1938: minneskrift (in Norwegian). Stavanger.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)