Agdenes
Agdenes was a municipality in Trøndelag, central Norway . The seat of the administration was in Lensvik . As part of the local government reform in Norway , Agdenes, Meldal , Orkdal and the main part of Snillfjord were merged to form the new Orkland municipality on January 1, 2020 .
geography
The municipality was on the south side of the confluence of the Trondheimsfjord in the North Sea and had a coastline of around 60 kilometers. 1693 inhabitants lived in an area of 318 km² (as of January 1, 2019). The commune number was 5016.
The highest elevation was with 656 moh. the Hestgrovheia.
history
It was created in 1964 from the merger of the towns of Agdenes, Lensvik, Vassbygda and Ingdalen.
"Fortress Agdenes" was the name of the German occupying power for the fortress Austrått on the Ørland peninsula during World War II . The facility is now a museum and houses, among other things, the gun turret "C" of the battleship Gneisenau , which was reused here in 1942 after the heavily damaged ship was decommissioned.
From 1804 to 1984 the Agdenes fyr , a lighthouse for ships entering the Trondheimfjord , was operated in Agdenes . The lighthouse was then started by an unmanned direction light replaced.
economy
One of the main livelihoods of the community has been strawberry cultivation since farmer Lars H. Selbæk successfully planted his first bed in 1886. Originally mainly Norwegian students and pupils were harvest workers, but this work was later mostly done by Eastern European workers. Other important branches of the economy have traditionally been forestry , dairy farming and fur farming . The largest employers were the electronics group Elpro Industrier , which mainly manufactures ship fittings , and the Fylkets Fellesvaskeri industrial laundry .
coat of arms
The municipal coat of arms of Agdenes was donated in 1991. The blazon reads "A red shield head in an ermine"; the ermine stands on the one hand for the fact that kings also lived in Agdenes in the Middle Ages, on the other hand for today's fur farming; According to the municipality, the red is "a symbol of strawberry cultivation, warmth of the heart or the blood from the ax of King Erik Blodøks ."
Web links
- Agdenes in the store norske leksikon (Norwegian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Navn på nye kommuner. February 19, 2019, accessed January 27, 2020 (Norwegian).
- ↑ Agdenes festning . In: Store norske leksikon . January 2, 2018 (Norwegian, snl.no [accessed July 17, 2020]).
- ↑ Agdenes fyr. In: Forsvarsbygg. Retrieved July 17, 2020 (Norwegian).
Coordinates: 63 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ N , 9 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ E