Fjarðabyggð
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| State : |
 Iceland
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| Region: | Austurland |
| Constituency : | Norðausturkjördæmi |
| Sýsla : | circular |
| Population: | 5070 (January 1, 2019) |
| Surface: | 1164 km² |
| Population density: | 4.36 inhabitants / km² |
| Post Code: | 730 (Reyðarfjörður) 735 (Eskifjörður) 740 (Neskaupstaður) 750 (Fáskrúðsfjörður) |
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| Community number | 7300 |
| Mayor: | Guðmundur Bjarnason |
| Contact | |
| Website: | www.fjardabyggd.is |
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Coordinates: 65 ° 2 ′ N , 14 ° 13 ′ W |
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The municipality of Fjarðabyggð [ ˈfjarðap Gemeindeð ] is an Icelandic municipality in the Austurland region of East Iceland. On January 1, 2019, it had 5070 inhabitants.
Emergence
Fjarðabyggð was formed on June 7, 1998 from the following three municipalities: the town of Neskaupstaður with the rural municipality of Norðfjörður ( Norðfjarðarhreppur ) incorporated in 1994 ; the town of Eskifjörður (isl. Eskifjarðarkaupstaður ) with the rural community of Helgustaðir ( Helgustaðahreppur ), which was incorporated in 1988, and the rural community of Reyðarfjörður (isl. Reyðarfjarðarhreppur ).
On June 9, 2006, three more municipalities joined: the municipality of Austurbyggð with 859 inhabitants (2005), in turn formed on October 1, 2003 through the merger of the previous rural communities Búðir ( Búðahreppur ) and Stöðvarfjörður ( Stöðvarhreppur ); the rural community Fáskrúðsfjörður (Isl. Fáskrúðsfjarðarhreppur ) with 48 inhabitants (2005) (not to be confused with the village of the same name, which now belongs to the same municipality) and the rural community Mjóifjörður (Isl. Mjóafjarðarhreppur (2005) with 42 inhabitants.
places
The largest settlements in the municipality are Reyðarfjörður (1,102 inhabitants), Neskaupstaður (1,437 inhabitants) and Eskifjörður (1,043 inhabitants), while smaller settlements are Fáskrúðsfjörður (662 inhabitants) and Stöðvarfjörður (203 inhabitants, all as of January 1, 2011).
Reyðarfjörður
Neskaupstaður
Eskifjörður
Fáskrúðsfjörður
The place Fáskrúðsfjörður [ ˈfauskruðsˌfjœrðʏr ] (formerly Búðir) is a village on the fjord of the same name . You live from fishing. From 2003 to 2006 the place belonged to the municipality Austurbyggð .
The French fishermen
Fáskrúðsfjörður was a center for French fishermen who came fishing in the winter season between 1880 and 1920, mainly from Brittany and the areas on the border with Belgium (see also the novel Pêcheur d'Islande by Pierre Loti ). However, only a few of them settled in the village, most of them worked as fishermen out at sea and were very exploited in the process. They only came to barter deals on land or when they were sick or injured, which is why a small hospital, the Franski spítalinn , was set up for them there, the remains of which stood on the bank opposite the village. In the meantime the corrugated iron house has been brought back to the village and renovated. The French Museum and the generally bilingual street names (Icelandic, French) bear witness to this time. There is also the Franskir dagar ( French days ) festival in town every summer .
tunnel
The place benefited from the improved transport links to the Reyðarfjörður through the opening of the Fáskrúðsfjarðargöng tunnel in 2005.
Stöðvarfjörður
Stöðvarfjörður [ ˈstœðvarˌfjœrðʏr ] is a small place on the fjord of the same name. From 2003 to 2006 the place belonged to the municipality Austurbyggð.
The large private collection of Petra Sveinsdóttir mainly shows many different crystals for which the area is famous. The Ice Age glacier, which was in the country in the cold ages until 10,000 years ago, rested particularly hard on the east fjords , because the largest glaciers were also located here at today's Vatnajökull during the Ice Age . Therefore, around 2000 m were eroded by glacier abrasion. Here you can see particularly well into the interior of large old central volcanoes and find a wide variety of volcanic rock types (see also Berufjörður ). Also at Reyðarfjörður, Fáskrúðsfjörður and Stöðvarfjörður are the remains of such volcanoes, which are up to 12 million years old.
Population development
| During the construction of the aluminum smelter at Reyðarfjörður, the community almost experienced a population growth explosion due to the large number of foreign guest workers. In the meantime, the population has stabilized again at a lower value. | |||||||
| Date (Dec. 1) |
Residents of the municipality of Fjarðabyggð (territory 2006) |
Resident of the city of Neskaupstaður |
Inhabitants of Reyðarfjörður settlement |
Inhabitants of the city of Eskifjörður |
Inhabitants of the settlement Fáskrúðsfjörður |
Inhabitants of the settlement Stöðvarfjörður |
Inhabitants of the settlement Mjóifjörður |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 4370 | 1539 | 737 | 1009 | 660 | 296 | |
| 2003 | 4075 | 1407 | 669 | 965 | 589 | 270 | |
| 2004 | 4137 | 1406 | 692 | 968 | 599 | 263 | |
| 2005 | 4844 | 1404 | 1414 | 1012 | 623 | 236 | |
| 2006 | 5705 | 1400 | 2238 | 1068 | 611 | 231 | |
| 2009 | 5070 | 1469 | 1348 | 1040 | 702 | 181 | |
| 2010 | 4632 | 1507 | 1105 | 1056 | 708 | 222 | 34 |
Former parishes
| Fjarðabyggð | Mjóifjörður | Fáskrúðsfjörður | Austurbyggð | |
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| Municipality number: | 7300 | 7605 | 7610 | 7619 |
| Area in km²: | 628 | 194 | 244 | 98 |
| Population on Dec. 1, 1997: | 3,333 (territory 1998) | 27 | 84 | 926 (territory 2003) |
| Population on Dec. 1, 2003: | 3,100 (territorial status 1998) | 37 | 55 | 853 |
| Population on December 1st, 2004: | 3,175 (territory 1998) | 38 | 51 | 873 |
| Population on Dec. 1, 2005: | 3,895 (territory 1998) | 42 | 48 | 859 |
| Population change 1997-2003: | -7% | + 37% | -35% | -8th % |
| Population change 2003-2005: | + 26% | + 14% | -13% | +1% |
Town twinning
Sons and daughters of the church
- Vilhjálmur Einarsson (* 1934 in Reyðarfjörður, † 2019), athlete
- Gerður Helgadóttir (1928–1975), glass painter, sculptor
literature
Non-fiction
- Nelson Cazeils: Pêcheurs d'Islande. Éditions Ouest-France, 2005 (To the French Icelandic fishermen, French)
Fiction
To the Icelandic fishermen
- Pierre Loti: Pêcheur d'Islande. (1886; German The Icelandic Fishermen )
Web links
- Local government website (Icelandic)
- Eskifjördur and the fishing museum
- To the French in Fáskrúðsfjörður ( Memento from December 25, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (French)
- Pierre Loti : Roman Le pêcheur d'Islande . gutenberg.org (French)
- Homepage of the Mineralogical Collection Petra Sveinsdóttir, Stöðvafjörður (English, Icelandic)
Individual evidence
- ^ Hagstofa (Stat. Office of Iceland) ; accessed September 1, 2011
- ↑ bibliomonde.com Elín Pálmadóttir: "Les pêcheurs français en Islande"
- ↑ iceland.is ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Relations historiques France - Islande, Isl. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (French); Retrieved September 4, 2012
- ↑ fjardabyggd.is ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Off. Website (Icelandic); Retrieved September 4, 2012
- ↑ https://px.hagstofa.is/pxen/pxweb/en/Ibuar/Ibuar__mannfjoldi__2_byggdir__sveitarfelog/MAN02001.px and https://www.samband.is/sveitarfelogin/
- ↑ Á uppleið In: Austurglugginn. No. 12, Volume 9, March 26, 2010, p. 1.
