Volda
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| Commune number : | 1577 | ||
| Province (county) : | Møre and Romsdal | ||
| Administrative headquarters: | Volda | ||
| Coordinates : | 62 ° 9 ' N , 6 ° 5' E | ||
| Surface: | 876.87 km² | ||
| Residents: | 10,473 (Feb 27, 2020) | ||
| Population density : | 12 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Language form : | Nynorsk | ||
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| Mayor : | Sølvi Dimming ( Sp ) (2020) | ||
| Location in the province of Møre og Romsdal | |||
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Volda is a place and a municipality in the Norwegian Fylke Møre og Romsdal . The administrative center of the municipality is Volda.
The highest point is the 1,482 meter high Kyrkjefjellet , the largest water surface in the inland is the Hornindalsvatnet . The well-known boat-building village Bjørkedal is located on Bjørkedalsvatnet .
Neighboring municipalities are Ørsta , Ulstein and Vanylven as well as the municipalities of Stryn and Stad in the neighboring Fylke Vestland .
On January 1, 2020, the municipality of Hornindal came to Volda from the dissolved Fylke Sogn og Fjordane . As a result, Volda grew from 656.49 km² to 876.87 km².
education
In the city of Volda is the state college Høgskulen i Volda, founded in 1994 (previously Møre og Romsdal Distriktshøgskule ). In the decades before that, Volda was of great importance through the Lærerskule, founded in 1895, especially for teacher training, and through Voldens høiere Almueskole , which existed from 1861 to 1880.
This was helped by the community's role in the history of the Norwegian local press. It was here that the lensman and printer Sivert Knudsen Aarflot and his son Rasmus created the country's first local newspaper, the Norsk Landboeblad .
traffic
Volda is on Europastrasse 39 . Ørsta-Volda Airport, Hovden is located around four kilometers north of the city .
Attractions
- The Volda Kyrkje is a 1932 built in Volda Cross Church with a Furtwängler organ .
- The Volda Bygdetun open-air museum in Volda.
- The wooden Dalsfjord Kyrkje is a cruciform church built in 1910 with 400 seats in Dalsfjord.
- The Aarflotmuseet is a museum with its own print shop in Eikset.
Personalities
- Olav Riste (1933–2015), historian
- Fredric Holen Bjørdal (* 1990), politician
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistisk sentralbyrå - Befolkning
- ^ Peder Bergem (Red.): Forkynning, Felleskap, Forsking. Volda Lærarskule 1895–1995. Høgskulen i Volda, 1995, ISBN 82-993590-0-7 .
- ^ Eckart Klaus Roloff : When Gutenberg came to Volda. The Norwegian province of Møre og Romsdal - a paradise for press historians, newspaper statisticians and journalist trainers. In: Beate Schneider, Kurt Reumann, Peter Schiwy (Hrsg.): Publizistik. Contributions to media development. UVK, Konstanz 1995, ISBN 3-87940-551-4 , pp. 353-371.
