Lunde, Telemark
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Lunde Municipality
Lunde herred | |
|---|---|
 View of the local church | |
 Telemark within Norway | |
 Lunde within Telemark | |
| Coordinates: 59°17′54″N 9°06′10″E / 59.29832°N 9.10268°E | |
| Country | Norway |
| County | Telemark |
| District | Midt-Telemark |
| Established | 1 Jan 1867 |
| • Preceded by | Bø Municipality |
| Disestablished | 1 Jan 1964 |
| • Succeeded by | Nome Municipality |
| Administrative centre | Bjervamoen |
| Area (upon dissolution) | |
• Total | 275 km2 (106 sq mi) |
| Population (1964) | |
• Total | 3,080 |
| • Density | 11.2/km2 (29.0/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Lundhering[1] |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| ISO 3166 code | NO-0820[2] |
Lunde is a former municipality in Telemark county, Norway. The 275-square-kilometre (106 sq mi) municipality existed from 1867 until its dissolution in 1964. The area is now part of Nome Municipality. It was part of the traditional district of Midt-Telemark. The administrative centre was the village of Bjervamoen.[3]
Lunde was the production site of the Troll automobile. It is also known as the birthplace of ski racer Atle Skårdal and jazz singer Torun Eriksen.
Name
The parish of Lunde was established as a municipality on 1 January 1867 when the large Bø Municipality was divided. The northern district of Bø remained as Bø municipality with 2,633 residents and the southern district became Lunde municipality with a population of 2,257 people. During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1964 Lunde Municipality (population: 3,080) was merged with most of the neighboring Holla Municipality (population: 4,093) to form the new municipality Nome Municipality.[4]
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Lunde farm (Old Norse: Lundr) since the first Lunde Church was built there. The name is identical to the word lundr which means "grove" or a "clump of trees". The present form Lunde is derived from the singular dative case of the word, lundi.[5]
