Sandvollan is a former municipality in the old

Nord-Trøndelag Nord-Trøndelag (; "North Trøndelag") was a counties of Norway, county constituting the northern part of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. It bordered the old Sør-Trøndelag ("South Trøndelag") county as well as the county of Nordl ...

county,

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. The municipality existed from 1907 until its dissolution in 1962. It was located in the north part of what is now

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county. The

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of the municipality was located at Sandvollan, where

Hustad Church Hustad Church () is a preserved former parish church of the Church of Norway in Inderøy Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located just north of the village of Gangstadhaugen. It is the former main church for the Sandvollan paris ...

was located (just southeast of Gangstad. There are two main villages in Sandvollan: Gangstad and

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. Gangstad has a

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. Between the two villages lies Skjelvågen, a

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that used to be a stop on the

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routes. Prior to its dissolution in 1962, the municipality was the 651st largest by area out of the 731 municipalities in Norway. Sandvollan Municipality was the 684th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of about 757. The municipality's

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was and its population had decreased by 7.1% over the previous 10-year period. There were two churches in Sandvollan Municipality: the 12th-century

and

Heggstad Church Heggstad Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Inderøy Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located at Sandvollan, just south of the village of Gangstadhaugen. It is the main church for the Sandvollan parish which ...

from 1887. The older church was built for the

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of Hustad, Bård Standale, who was

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for Eystein Haraldsson around 1150. The newer church was built because the old one had become too small.

General information

The municipality of ''Hustad'' was established on 1 January 1907 when the old

was divided into three:

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(population: 866) in the southeast, Hustad Municipality (population: 732) in the north, and

(population: 2,976) in the west. In 1912, the name was changed to ''Sandvollan Municipality''. During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the

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. On 1 January 1962,

(population: 1,003), Sandvollan Municipality (population: 750), and

(population: 3,194) were merged to form a new, larger

Name

The municipality was originally named ''Hustad'', after the old ''Hustad'' farm () since the first

was built there. The first element is which means "house". The last element is the

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of which means "place" or "

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". On 16 October 1911, a royal resolution changed the name of the municipality to ''Sandvollan''. The new name was actually an old name for the area (). The first element comes from the word which means "sandy ground" or " sandbank". The last element is which means "field" or "

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Churches

The

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

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and the

Nord-Innherad 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

Sandvollan was located on the northern part of the

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peninsula. It was bordered by

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and the

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fjord to the east,

to the southwest, and the

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to the north. Sandvollan Municipality was mostly an

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area, though it also functions as a

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of the nearby town of Steinkjer, located about away. The highest point in the municipality was the tall mountain Vestkam, on the border with

to the south.

Government

While it existed, Sandvollan 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 Sandvollan was made up of 13 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 Sandvollan was the political leader of the municipality and the chairperson of the municipal council. Here is a list of people who held this position: * 1907–1919: Tørris Hustad ( V) * 1920–1922: Kristian Sletvold ( V) * 1923–1925: Ole Stornes ( Bp) * 1926–1928: Petter Heggstad ( Bp) * 1929–1931: Ole Stornes ( Bp) * 1932–1934: Sivert Bragstad ( Bp) * 1935–1937: Ole Stornes ( Bp) * 1938–1941: Lars Overrein ( Bp) * 1941–1945: Petter Heggstad ( NS) * 1945–1945: Lars Overrein ( Bp) * 1946–1957: Oluf B. Meistad ( Ap) * 1958–1959: Håkon A. Hustad ( Ap) * 1960–1961: Andreas Nygård ( Ap)

References

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