List of former municipalities in Norrbotten County

The list of former municipalities in Norrbottens län lists all municipalities in the Swedish province of Norrbottens län that existed between the entry into force of the municipal code of 1862 and the implementation of the municipality reform of 1971, when the municipalities were formed in the form that still exists today. In addition, an overview of the population development of the communities in this period is given.

List of municipalities

The municipality of Norrbotten County was organized in 1952

Parish structure of Norrbotten County since 1971

The first Swedish Local Government Code of 1862 with the development of municipalities ( stadskommun, usually stad in name) Market town communities ( köpingskommun or köping, in Norrbotten County until 1948) and rural communities (landskommun) occurred in the province to January 1, 1863 only in the coastal part, the historical province (landskap) Norrbotten , through the formation of initially 14 municipalities in force. In the sparsely populated inland, part of the historic province of Lapland , seven municipalities did not emerge until January 1, 1874.

The municipal reform of 1952, which reduced the number of municipalities in Sweden by almost two thirds, had no effect in Norrbotten County. Consolidation did not begin until the second half of the 1960s. Before that, in the period from 1948 to 1966, the highest level of 31 municipalities had been reached (5 cities, 1 minority town, 25 rural communities).

The local government reform in 1971 consistent with the formation of the still existing 14 municipalities type (kommun) occurred throughout the province on January 1, 1971 in force, without the usual in most other provinces of Sweden temporary survival of some former municipalities to December 31 1973rd

local community	main place	From	To	Emerged from	Incorporated into	Today's church	comment
Älvsby landskommun	Älvsbyn	1874	1968	Piteå landskommun *	Älvsbyns köping	Älvsbyn
Älvsbyns köping	Älvsbyn	1948	1970	Älvsby landskommun *		Älvsbyn
Arjeplogs landskommun	Arjeplog	1874	1970			Arjeplog
Arvidsjaurs landskommun	Arvidsjaur	1874	1970			Arvidsjaur
Boden stad	ground	1919	1970	Överluleå landskommun *		ground
Edefors landskommun	Harads	1892	1970	Överluleå landskommun *		ground
Enontekis landskommun	Karesuando	1874	1906		Karesuando landskommun (renamed)	Kiruna
Gällivare landskommun	Gällivare	1874	1970			Gällivare
Haparanda stad	Haparanda	1863	1970			Haparanda	City charter since December 10, 1842
Hietaniemi landskommun	Hedenäset	1863	1968		Övertorneå landskommun	Övertorneå
Hortlax landskommun	Hortlax	1918	1966	Piteå landskommun *	Piteå stad	Piteå
Jokkmokks landskommun	Jokkmokk	1874	1970			Jokkmokk
Jukkasjärvi landskommun	Jukkasjärvi Kiruna	1874	1947		Kiruna stad	Kiruna
Junosuando landskommun	Junosuando	1914	1970	Pajala landskommun *		Pajala
Kalix landskommun	Kalix	1967	1970	Nederkalix landskommun Töre landskommun		Kalix
Karesuando landskommun	Karesuando	1907	1970			Kiruna
Karl Gustavs landskommun *	Karungi	1863	1966		Haparanda stad	Haparanda
Kiruna stad	Kiruna	1948	1970	Jukkasjärvi landskommun		Kiruna
Korpilombolo landskommun	Corpilombolo	1870	1970	Pajala landskommun * Överkalix landskommun * Övertorneå landskommun *		Pajala	Congregation formed June 3, 1870
Luleå stad	Luleå	1863	1970			Luleå	City charter since July 12, 1621
Nederkalix landskommun	Kalix	1863	1966		Kalix landskommun	Kalix
Nederluleå landskommun	Gammelstad	1863	1968		Luleå stad	Luleå
Nedertorneå landskommun	Haparanda	1863	1966		Haparanda stad	Haparanda
Norrfjärdens landskommun	Norrfjärden	1916	1966	Piteå landskommun *	Piteå stad	Piteå
Överkalix landskommun	Överkalix	1863	1970			Överkalix
Överluleå landskommun	ground	1863	1966		Boden stad	ground
Övertorneå landskommun	Övertorneå	1863	1970			Övertorneå
Pajala landskommun	Pajala	1863	1970			Pajala
Piteå landskommun	Piteå	1863	1966		Piteå stad	Piteå
Piteå stad	Piteå	1863	1970			Piteå	City charter since May 12, 1621
Råneå landskommun	Råneå	1863	1968		Luleå stad	Floor Luleå	1967 Gunnarsbyns församling to Bodensstad
Tärendö landskommun	Tärendö	1885	1970	Pajala landskommun *		Pajala
Fool landskommun	Fools	1924	1966	Nederkalix landskommun *	Kalix landskommun	Kalix

Remarks

Municipalities are highlighted in green , minority municipalities in yellow .
The designations of municipalities that continue to exist today in an adapted form as commun under the respective name are shown in bold ; if there were city or minor city or rural communities with the same name, then the former.
Several stated main places per municipality mean that this has shifted during the time of the existence of the municipality.
Communities were formed on January 1 of the year mentioned ( From column ) or ceased to exist on December 31 ( To column ), unless otherwise stated in the comments.
For those that originally emerged from the earlier ecclesiastical administrative units in 1863/1874, nothing is noted in the column “ Originated from” ; usually this was the parish of the same name ( socks ). An asterisk (*) means that a church was formed from a part of the earlier church marked in this way.
For municipalities that existed until 1970, nothing is noted in the Raised up column if they continue to exist as a municipality named under Today's municipality or if they were absorbed into one.

If the associated city did not receive its city charter at the same time (but usually earlier) when a municipality was formed , this is stated under comments.

Population development

The following table shows the development of the population of the former municipalities of Norbottens län between 1860 and 1970, in each case for December 31 of the respective year.

Surname	1860	1870	1880	1890	1900	1910	1915	1920	1925	1930	1935	1940	1945	1950	1955	1960	1965	1970
Älvsby landskommun	1,802	2,276	2,915	3,759	4,995	5,810	6.376	7,054	7,481	7,692	8,390	8,897	9,306	6,521	6,184	5,875	5.122
Älvsbyns köping														2,782	3.119	3,618	4,170	8,686
Arjeplogs landskommun	1,207	1,234	1,352	1,771	2,325	2,849	3,084	3,195	3,462	3,795	4.130	4,427	4,939	5,320	5,711	5,573	5,063	4,435
Arvidsjaurs landskommun	2,026	2,473	3.164	4,040	5,220	6,349	6,708	7.005	7,693	8,948	9,648	9,824	10,679	11.096	10,754	10,317	9,374	8,400
Boden stad								6.220	6,707	6,517	6,594	7,753	10.121	11,458	12.301	13,720	14,354	24,600
Edefors landskommun					2,415	2,569	2,852	3,220	3,454	3,553	3,774	3,845	3,840	3,894	3,645	3.811	3,079	2,549
Enontekis landskommun Karesuando landskommun	1,239	1,364	1,293	1,348	1,266	1,198	1,183	1,182	1,021	1,086	1,152	1,222	1,224	1,325	1,425	1,446	1,442	1,293
Gällivare landskommun	2,443	2,691	3,253	4,279	11,745	16,245	18,698	19.164	18,477	20,228	19,895	20,824	21,704	22,479	24,849	27,670	27,056	25,417
Haparanda stad	737	942	1,039	1,252	1,568	1,423	1,531	2,784	2,694	2,519	2,610	2,722	3,038	2,973	3,194	3,373	3,966	8,888
Hietaniemi landskommun	1,796	1,837	1,998	1,946	1,968	2,150	2,323	2,437	2,557	2,489	2,595	2,648	2,638	2,657	2,644	2,438	2.136
Hortlax landskommun								3,766	4.156	4,339	4,467	4,508	4,628	4,844	4,907	4,769	4,519
Jokkmokks landskommun	1,905	1,983	2,522	3,256	4,372	5,416	6,565	7,648	7,590	7,530	8,699	8,668	8,968	10,744	9,267	11,533	10,106	7,998
Jukkasjärvi landskommun Kiruna stad	1,750	1,783	1,973	2,256	3,048	11,530	14,477	13,601	16,210	18,575	17,390	18.205	18,377	19,023	22,374	26,748	28,343	29,330
Junosuando landskommun							1.104	1,141	1,235	1,349	1,547	1,756	1,850	1.914	1,870	1,770	1,511	1,395
Karl Gustavs landskommun *	2,285	2.149	2,244	2,229	2,403	2,536	2,996	2,875	2,846	2,894	3.159	3,371	3,561	3,390	3.226	2,850	2,432
Korpilombolo landskommun	962	1,096	1,415	1,732	1,990	2.005	2,058	2,261	2,520	2,747	3.112	3,471	3,690	3,923	3,995	3,767	3,357	2,659
Luleå stad	1,516	1,905	3,120	4,755	9,484	8,959	9,833	10,545	10,971	11,334	13,510	14,018	17,086	22,514	27,767	30,566	34,853	58,946
Nederkalix landskommun Kalix landskommun	6,969	7,522	9.419	11,090	12,946	15,365	15,899	16,461	12,684	13,460	14,075	14,467	14,784	14,903	15,220	15,182	14,616	18.199
Nederluleå landskommun	8,283	8,702	10,105	10,727	12,166	12,278	12,321	12,581	12,733	12,980	10,954	11,020	11,073	11,472	11,733	12,461	13,341
Nedertorneå landskommun	1.995	2,033	2,347	2,520	3,056	3,972	4,436	4.210	4,481	4.171	4,551	4,542	4,542	4,242	3,937	3,596	3.214
Norrfjärdens landskommun							4,600	4,834	4,890	4,887	4,938	4,858	4,801	4,666	4,530	4.126	3,760
Överkalix landskommun	2,913	3,544	4,217	4,834	5,539	6.013	6,208	6,518	7.004	7,396	8.006	8,564	9,171	9.214	9,065	8,598	7,518	6,023
Överluleå landskommun	5,809	7,230	8,386	9,540	10,555	13,961	14,625	9,641	9,779	9,408	9,569	9,573	10,598	10,281	9,532	9,177	8,893
Övertorneå landskommun	2,368	2,528	2,942	3.122	3,406	3,683	3,891	4,096	4,524	4,913	5,531	6.233	6,844	7,419	7,402	7,033	6,549	7,356
Pajala landskommun	3,008	3.233	3,903	3,549	4,584	4,895	4.015	4,192	4,451	4,850	5,459	6.229	6,817	7,066	6,941	6,415	5,927	4,878
Piteå landskommun	10,451	11,638	13,682	15,535	17,951	19,640	15,869	12,671	12,916	13,807	14,458	13,967	14,063	13,852	13,759	13,726	14,278
Piteå stad	1,554	1,800	2,337	2,691	2,655	2,632	2,622	3,047	3.129	3,102	3,407	4,264	4,883	5,574	6,466	7,426	8,476	32,829
Råneå landskommun	5,487	6.094	7.135	7,411	7,777	8,137	8,392	8,838	8,844	8,730	8,965	9,087	8,972	8,634	8.091	7,523	6,663
Tärendö landskommun				1,141	1,335	1,517	1,561	1,762	1,875	1,982	2.164	2,216	2,251	2,295	2,283	2.213	2.023	1,813
Fool landskommun									4,556	4,544	4,804	4,969	5,213	5,127	4,840	4,482	3,683

Remarks

Municipalities that emerged directly from one another in the chronological sequence through a change in type and / or renaming are, in contrast to the first table, summarized in one row each; the transition is marked by a thicker border between the table columns.
In 1860 or partly in 1870, the communities did not yet exist; For comparison purposes, the number of inhabitants of the administrative unit from which the municipality later emerged is given (usually parishes / socks that corresponded in size to the municipalities; possibly in the sum of several).
Missing information means that the municipality did not exist that year (see first table).

literature

Per Andersson: Sveriges kommunindelning 1863–1993 . Draking, Mjölby 1993, ISBN 91-87784-05-X (Swedish).

Individual evidence

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Data from Statistiska centralbyrån (Swedish Central Statistical Office):
- Bidrag till Sveriges officiella statistics. A. Compliance statistics. (Each Andra afdelningen / Department II, PDF for 1860 , 1870 , 1880 , 1890 , 1900 )
- Folkmängden inom administrativa områden December 31, 1910. ( PDF , as well as the following for 1915 , 1920 , 1925 , 1930 , 1935 , 1940 , 1945 , 1950 , 1955 )
- 1960–1970 according to Folkmängd 31 dec 1950–1975 i län, communer och församlingar enligt communindelningen 1 jan 1976. ( PDF )

[scb-1] Data from Statistiska centralbyrån (Swedish Central Statistical Office):

Bidrag till Sveriges officiella statistics. A. Compliance statistics. (Each Andra afdelningen / Department II, PDF for 1860 , 1870 , 1880 , 1890 , 1900 )

Folkmängden inom administrativa områden December 31, 1910. ( PDF , as well as the following for 1915 , 1920 , 1925 , 1930 , 1935 , 1940 , 1945 , 1950 , 1955 )

1960–1970 according to Folkmängd 31 dec 1950–1975 i län, communer och församlingar enligt communindelningen 1 jan 1976. ( PDF )

[2] Bidrag till Sveriges officiella statistics. A. Compliance statistics. (Each Andra afdelningen / Department II, PDF for 1860 , 1870 , 1880 , 1890 , 1900 )

[3] Folkmängden inom administrativa områden December 31, 1910. ( PDF , as well as the following for 1915 , 1920 , 1925 , 1930 , 1935 , 1940 , 1945 , 1950 , 1955 )

[4] 1960–1970 according to Folkmängd 31 dec 1950–1975 i län, communer och församlingar enligt communindelningen 1 jan 1976. ( PDF )