Buvik is a former municipality in the old

Sør-Trøndelag Sør-Trøndelag (; ) was a Counties of Norway, county comprising the southern portion of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. It bordered the old Nord-Trøndelag () county as well as the counties of Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, and Hedmark. ...

county,

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. Buvik existed from 1855 until 1965. The municipality encompassed the extreme northeastern part of what is now

Skaun Municipality Skaun is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Trøndelag Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Orkdalen Districts of Norway, region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Børsa. Other vill ...

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county. It encompassed the roughly area surrounding the Vigda river south of the

Gaulosen Gaulosen is a fjord in Trøndelag county, Norway. The long fjord is an arm off the large Trondheimsfjorden. The fjord forms the border between Trondheim Municipality, Skaun Municipality, and Melhus Municipality. The river Gaula flows into the f ...

fjord. The

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was located in the village of

Buvika Buvika is a village in Skaun Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located at the end of the Gaulosen, an arm of the Trondheimsfjord, about southwest of the mouth of the Gaula River. Buvika lies along the European route E39, about ha ...

. Prior to its dissolution in 1965, the municipality was the 488th largest by area out of the 525 municipalities in Norway. Buvik Municipality was the 468th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of about 1,292. The municipality's

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was and its population had increased by 5.1% over the previous 10-year period.

General information

The municipality was established in 1855 when the large

Byneset Municipality Byneset is a former municipality in the old Sør-Trøndelag county in Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1964. The municipality of Byneset encompassed the western part of what is now Trondheim Municipality in T ...

was divided into two: the southern part (population: 841) became the new Buvik Municipality and the northern part (population: 2,109) remained as Byneset Municipality. During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the

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. On 1 January 1964, the ''Langørgen'' farm area (population: 11) in Buvik Municipality was merged into the neighboring

Melhus Municipality Melhus is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Trøndelag Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Gauldalen Districts of Norway, region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Melhus (village), village o ...

. Then, on 1 January 1965, the rest of Buvik Municipality (population: 1,267) was merged with the neighboring

Børsa Municipality Børsa is a List of former municipalities of Norway, former municipality in the old Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1965. The municipality originally encompassed the coastal areas along ...

and

to form a new, larger

Name

The municipality (originally the

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) is named after the Buvik inlet (), a small bay located on a southern branch of the main

Trondheimsfjorden The Trondheim Fjord or Trondheimsfjorden (), an inlet of the Norwegian Sea, is Norway's List of Norwegian fjords, third-longest fjord at long. It is located in the west-central part of the country in Trøndelag county, and it stretches from Ørl ...

. The first element is which is a word that describes "waves breaking over hidden rocks". The last element is which means "

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" or "

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". Historically, the name of the municipality was spelled ''Buviken''. On 3 November 1917, a royal resolution changed the spelling of the name of the municipality to ''Buvik'', removing the definite form ending ''-en''.

Churches

The

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had one parish () within Buvik Municipality. At the time of the municipal dissolution, it was part of the Byneset

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and the

Orkdal prosti This list of churches in Nidaros is a list of the Church of Norway churches in the Diocese of Nidaros in Norway. It includes all of the parishes in Trøndelag county. The diocese is based at the Nidaros Cathedral in the city of Trondheim (city), T ...

(

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) in the

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Geography

The municipality was located along the

coast, about southwest of the city of

Trondheim Trondheim ( , , ; ), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros, and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2022, it had a population of 212,660. Trondheim is the third most populous municipality in Norway, and is ...

and

were to the west and

was to the east. The highest point in the municipality was the tall mountain Våttån, on the border between Buvik Municipality and

Government

While it existed, Buvik Municipality was responsible for

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(through 10th grade), outpatient

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services,

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and other

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, and municipal

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s and utilities. The municipality was governed by a

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of directly elected representatives. The

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was

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by a vote of the municipal council. The municipality was under the jurisdiction of the

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Municipal council

The

of Buvik was made up of representatives that were elected to four year terms. The tables below show the historical composition of the council by political

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Mayors

The

() of Buvik was the political leader of the municipality and the chairperson of the municipal council. Here is a list of people who held this position: * 1848–1856: Erik Walseth * 1857–1857: Claus J. Huusby * 1858–1861: Jens Christian Walseth * 1862–1863: John T. Saltnes * 1864–1871: Ole Larsen Huseby * 1872–1875: Jens Christian Walseth * 1876–1883: Ole Larsen Huseby * 1884–1901: Arnt Einum ( V) * 1902–1904: Alt Evensen Onsøien ( V) * 1905–1916: John Saltnessand ( V) * 1917–1922: Erik Huseby ( V) * 1923–1925: Ole O. Krogstad ( V) * 1926–1932: John Lereggen ( Bp) * 1932–1934: Ola Olstad ( Bp) * 1935–1941: Elling Svange ( Bp) * 1942–1945: Anders Presthus ( NS) * 1945–1945: Elling Svange ( Bp) * 1946–1947: Fredrik Hammer ( Ap) * 1948–1950: Johan Snøfugl ( Bp) * 1950–1951: Anders Grøthe ( V) * 1951–1951: Gisle Overskott ( Bp) * 1952–1964: Fredrik Hammer ( Ap)

References

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