Eiken, Norway
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Eiken Municipality
Eiken herred | |
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 View of the local church | |
 Vest-Agder within Norway | |
 Eiken within Vest-Agder | |
| Coordinates: 58°28′44″N 07°12′43″E / 58.47889°N 7.21194°E | |
| Country | Norway |
| County | Vest-Agder |
| District | Lister |
| Established | 1 Jan 1916 |
| • Preceded by | Hægebostad Municipality |
| Disestablished | 1 Jan 1963 |
| • Succeeded by | Hægebostad Municipality |
| Administrative centre | Eiken |
| Population (1916) | |
• Total | 784 |
| Demonym | Eikdøl[1] |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| ISO 3166 code | NO-1035[2] |
Eiken is a former municipality in the old Vest-Agder county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1916 until its dissolution in 1963. It was located in the northern half of the present-day municipality of Hægebostad in what is now Agder county. The administrative centre was the village of Eiken where Eiken Church is located. The municipality included the far northern end of the Lyngdalen valley from the lake Lygne to the mountains in the north.[3]
Name
The municipality of Eiken was established on 1 January 1916 when the municipality of Hægebostad was divided into two separate municipalities: Eiken (population: 932) and Hægebostad (population: 867). During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1963, the two municipalities were reunited and together formed the municipality of Hægebostad. Before the merger the population of Eiken was 784.[4]
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Eiken farm (Old Norse: Æke). The name is the plural genitive case of the word eik which means "oak tree".[5]
