Tromsøysund is a former municipality in

Troms Troms (; se, Romsa; fkv, Tromssa; fi, Tromssa) is a former county in northern Norway. On 1 January 2020 it was merged with the neighboring Finnmark county to create the new Troms og Finnmark county. This merger is expected to be reversed by ...

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. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1964. The municipality encompassed most of what is now

Tromsø Municipality Tromsø (, , ; se, Romsa ; fkv, Tromssa; sv, Tromsö) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Tromsø. Tromsø lies in Northern Norway. The municipality is the 21s ...

including areas on the island of Kvaløya and on the mainland. It completely surrounded the city of Tromsø, both on a number of islands as well as on the mainland. The municipality included the villages of

Bjerkaker Bjerkaker is a neighborhood in the city of Tromsø in Tromsø Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. It is located on the southern tip of the island of Tromsøya. Before 1 July 1955, Bjerkaker was part of the former municipality of ...

Tromsdalen Tromsdalen ( sme, Romssavággi Sálašvággi) is an urban neighborhood in the Tromsø (city), city of Tromsø which is in Tromsø Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. It is located just to the east of the city centre on the mainland ...

, and

Movik Movik is a village in Tromsø Municipality in Troms county, Norway. It is located along the Tromsøysundet strait on the mainland part of the municipality. The village sits about northeast of the city of Tromsø and about north of the village ...

. The

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was the village of

, just across the strait from the city of Tromsø.

History

The large

prestegjeld A ''prestegjeld'' was a geographic and administrative area within the Church of Norway (''Den Norske Kirke'') roughly equivalent to a parish. This traditional designation was in use for centuries to divide the kingdom into ecclesiastical areas that ...

of ''Tromsøe'' existed for hundreds of years. In 1838, the new

formannskapsdistrikt () is the name for Norwegian local self-government districts that were legally enacted on 1 January 1838. This system of municipalities was created in a bill approved by the Parliament of Norway and signed into law by King Carl Johan on 14 Janua ...

law established municipal self-government in Norway. According to the law, each prestegjeld became a municipality, but all cities in Norway had to be separated from their prestegjeld and be their own municipalities. So, on 1 January 1838, the city of Tromsøe became a municipality and the large surrounding district became the municipality of ''Tromsøe landdistrikt''. Initially, the new municipality had a population of 4,286. In 1860, the southern part of the municipality (population: 3,610) was split off from Tromsøe landdistrikt to become the new Balsfjord Municipality. This left Tromsøe landdistrikt with 2,632 inhabitants. In November 1860, the name of the municipality was changed to ''Tromsøsundet'' (the spelling was changed to the more modern spelling ''Tromsøysund'' later). On 1 January 1861, an area of Tromsøysund (population: 110) was transferred to the city of Tromsø. On 1 January 1873, a part of the neighboring municipality of

Malangen Malangen ( sme, Málatvuotna or fkv, Malankivuono) is a former municipality in Troms county in Norway. The municipality existed from 1871 until its dissolution in 1964. The old municipality surrounded the Malangen fjord and today that a ...

(population: 287) was merged back into Tromsøysund (this area in Malangen was separated from Balsfjord in 1871). This area included the Bakkejord-Kvalnes-Lauksletta-Mjelde area in southern Kvaløya and Brokskar-Bentsjorda area on the mainland. At the same time, an uninhabited part of Tromsøysund was also transferred to Tromsø. On 1 July 1915, another part of Tromsøysund (population: 512) was transferred to the city of Tromsø. Again on 1 July 1955, the

area of Tromsøysund (population: 1,583) was transferred to the city of Tromsø. During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the

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. On 1 January 1964, a major municipal merger took place. All of Tromsøysund municipality (population: 16,727) was merged with the city of Tromsø (population: 12,602), the parts of

Hillesøy Hillesøy is a former municipality in the old Troms county in Norway. The municipality existed from 1855 until its dissolution in 1964. It was located on both sides of the Malangen fjord in what is now the present-day municipalities of Tromsø a ...

municipality on Kvaløya island (population: 1,316), and most (except the Svensby area) of Ullsfjord municipality (population: 2,019) to form a new, larger

Government

Municipal council

The

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of Tromsøysund was made up of 53 representatives that were elected to four year terms. The

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breakdown of the final municipal council was as follows:

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tromsoysund Tromsø Former municipalities of Norway 1838 establishments in Norway 1964 disestablishments in Norway

History

Government

Municipal council

See also

References

External links