Mundheim is a small village in the municipality of

Kvam Kvam is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The municipality is located along the Hardangerfjorden in the traditional district of Hardanger. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Norheimsund. Other larger settl ...

Vestland Vestland is a Counties of Norway, county in Norway. The county is located in Western Norway, and its administrative centre is Bergen, where the executive and political leadership is based. The County governor (Norway), County Governor is based in ...

county,

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. It is located in the southern part of the municipality, along the

Hardangerfjorden The Hardangerfjord () is the fifth longest fjord in the world, and the List of Norwegian fjords, second longest fjord in Norway. It is located in Vestland county in the Hardanger region. The fjord stretches from the Atlantic Ocean into the mou ...

, just northwest of the island of

Varaldsøy Varaldsøy is an island (and village) in the municipality of Kvinnherad in Vestland county, Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe ...

. The village sits at the junction of two

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(''fylkesvei''). Fv48 runs through Mundheim from

Gjermundshamn Hatlestrand is a village in Kvinnherad municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located along the Hardangerfjorden, northeast of the villages of Husa and Ølve. The village has a ferry port called ''Gjermundshamn'', which has re ...

(south) to

Eikelandsosen Eikelandsosen is a village in the municipality of Bjørnafjorden in Vestland county, Norway. It is located at the end of the Eikelandsfjorden, a small arm off the main Fusafjorden. The village sits to the southeast of the village of Holmefjord, ...

(north) and Fv49 runs northeast to Ploganes and

Norheimsund Norheimsund is the administrative centre of the municipality of Kvam in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located on the northern side of the Hardangerfjord, about from the city of Bergen. The village of Øystese lies about to the northeas ...

History

Historically, Mundheim was part of the

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Strandebarm Strandebarm is a former municipality in the old Hordaland county, Norway. The original municipality was large, spanning both sides of the central part of the Hardangerfjorden. It also included the island of Varaldsøy. Over time, the municipa ...

. When municipalities were established in Norway in 1838, Mundheim was part of

municipality. On 1 January 1902, the new municipality of

was created by separating it from Strandebarm. The new municipality consisted of the whole island of

as well as the mainland district surrounding Mundheim (northwest and west of the island). On 1 January 1964, Varaldsøy municipality was dissolved and the Mundheim area (population: 300) was administratively transferred to the municipality of

, and the rest of Varaldsøy became a part of

Kvinnherad Kvinnherad is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Sunnhordland, along the Hardangerfjorden. The municipality was the 5th in siz ...

municipality.

References

Villages in Vestland Kvam {{Vestland-geo-stub

History

See also

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