Hægeland (municipality)
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Hægeland Municipality
Hægeland herred | |
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 View of the local church in Hægeland | |
 Vest-Agder within Norway | |
 Hægeland within Vest-Agder | |
| Coordinates: 58°23′00″N 07°44′28″E / 58.38333°N 7.74111°E | |
| Country | Norway |
| County | Vest-Agder |
| District | Sørlandet |
| Established | 1 July 1896 |
| • Preceded by | Øvrebø og Hægeland Municipality |
| Disestablished | 1 Jan 1964 |
| • Succeeded by | Vennesla Municipality |
| Administrative centre | Hægelandskrossen |
| Area (upon dissolution) | |
• Total | 194 km2 (75 sq mi) |
| Population (1964) | |
• Total | 849 |
| • Density | 4.38/km2 (11.3/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Hægdøl[1] |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| ISO 3166 code | NO-1015[2] |
Hægeland is a former municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway. The 194-square-kilometre (75 sq mi) municipality existed from 1896 until its dissolution in 1964. The municipality was located in the northwestern part of the present-day municipality of Vennesla. The administrative centre was the village of Hægelandskrossen where Hægeland Church is located.[3]
Name
The municipality of Hægeland was established on 1 July 1896 when the old municipality of Øvrebø og Hægeland was divided into the separate municipalities of Hægeland (population: 843) and Øvrebø (population: 888). During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1964, the municipality of Hægeland (population: 849) was dissolved and merged with the neighboring municipalities of Vennesla (population: 7,321), and most of Øvrebø (population: 925) to form a new Vennesla municipality. (Vennesla was previously part of the old municipality of Øvrebø og Hægeland until 1865).[4]
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Hægeland farm (Old Norse: Helgaland) since the first Hægeland Church was built there. The first element comes from the word heilagr which means "holy", likely since this area was important to ancient Norse pagan worship. The last element is land which means "land" or "district".[3][5]
