Orkdal

View of the port area Grønøra near Orkanger with the mouth of the Orkla (left edge of the picture) into the Orkdalsfjord (back)

Orkdal was a municipality in Trøndelag in central Norway . The seat of the administration was in Orkanger . As part of the local government reform in Norway , Orkdal, Agdenes , Meldal and the main part of Snillfjord were merged to form the new Orkland municipality on January 1, 2020 .

12,086 inhabitants lived in an area of 593 km² (as of January 1, 2019). The municipality number was 5024.

A large part of the population concentrated on the places Orkanger and Fannrem at the mouth of the Orkla River in the Orkdalsfjord , an arm of the Trondheimfjord . The main industries were salmon fishing and agriculture.

history

Orkdal's Prestegjeld was founded as a municipality on January 1st, 1838. On July 1, 1920, the port of Orkanger (1,715 inhabitants) and the southern district of Orkland (1,760 inhabitants) were separated from Orkdal to form separate parishes. In the 1960s, the work of the Schei Committee resulted in numerous municipal associations across Norway. On January 1, 1963, the parishes of Orkanger, Orkland and Geitastrand were merged with Orkdal to form a new, larger parish of Orkdal.

Surname

The Old Norse form of the name was Orkardalr . The first part Ork is the genitive of the name of the river Ork (now Orkla) and the last part is Dalr , which means "valley". Historically the name Orkedalen was written.

coat of arms

Orkdal coat of arms

The coat of arms was awarded on April 25, 1986. It shows a silver line on a green background, which represents the Orkla, which runs through the fertile valley of the Orkdalen in the entire municipality and from which the municipality name is derived.

Churches

The Church of Norway has four parishes ( sokn ) within Orkdal parish. It is part of the Orkdal Prosti (deanery) in the diocese of Nidaros .

Personalities

Johan Bojer (1872–1959), writer
Nils Arne Eggen (* 1941), soccer player and coach
Kåre Gjønnes (* 1942), politician
Jorodd Asphjell (* 1960), politician
Roar Ljøkelsøy (* 1976), ski jumper
Guri Melby (* 1981), linguist and politician
Kurt Mosbakk (* 1934), politician
Anders Oddli (* 1994), cyclist

Town twinning

Orkdal's twin town was Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Web links

Commons : Orkdal - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Navn på nye kommuner. February 19, 2019, accessed January 27, 2020 (Norwegian).
↑ Oluf Rygh: Norske gaardnavne: Søndre Trondhjems amt (1901) . WC Fabritius, 1901 ( google.de [accessed June 9, 2019]).
↑ Orkdal - Kommunevåpen Orkdal (coat of arms). Retrieved June 9, 2019 .

63.283333333333 9.7166666666667Coordinates: 63 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ N , 9 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ E

[1] Navn på nye kommuner. February 19, 2019, accessed January 27, 2020 (Norwegian).

[2] Oluf Rygh: Norske gaardnavne: Søndre Trondhjems amt (1901) . WC Fabritius, 1901 ( google.de [accessed June 9, 2019]).

[3] Orkdal - Kommunevåpen Orkdal (coat of arms). Retrieved June 9, 2019 .