Sande Municipality (Vestfold)

Sande is a former municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The 178-square-kilometre (69 sq mi) municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 2020. The area is now part of Holmestrand Municipality in the traditional district of Jarlsberg. The administrative centre was the village of Sande. Other villages in the municipality included Eikeberg, Klever, and Selvik.^[5]

CountryNorway

Established1 Jan 1838

AdministrativecentreSande

DemonymSandesokning^[1]

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Sande Municipality Sande kommune
Former municipality
Sande herred (historic name)

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Vestfold within Norway
Sande within Vestfold
Coordinates: 59°35′12″N 10°12′29″E
Country	Norway
County	Vestfold
District	Jarlsberg
Established	1 Jan 1838
• Created as	Formannskapsdistrikt
Disestablished	1 Jan 2020
• Succeeded by	Holmestrand Municipality
Administrative centre	Sande
Area (upon dissolution)
• Total	178.34 km² (68.86 sq mi)
• Land	174.26 km² (67.28 sq mi)
• Water	4.08 km² (1.58 sq mi)
• Rank	#346 in Norway
Population (2019)
• Total	9,904
• Density	56.83/km² (147.2/sq mi)
Demonym	Sandesokning^[1]
Official language ^[2]
• Norwegian form	Bokmål^[3]
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	NO-0713^[4]
Data from Statistics Norway

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General information

The parish of Sande was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt law). During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1966, the village area of Berger (population: 131) was transferred from Sande Municipality to the neighboring Svelvik Municipality.^[6] On 1 January 2020, Sande Municipality was merged into the neighboring Holmestrand Municipality.^[7]

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Sande farm (Old Norse: Sandvin) since the first Sande Church was built there. The first element comes from the word sandr which means "sand". The last element comes from the word vin which means "meadow" or "pasture".^[8]

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was granted on 19 December 1986. The official blazon is "Per chevron vert and argent" (Norwegian: Delt av grønt og sølv ved sparresnitt). This means the arms are divided with an upside-down V-shaped line. The field (background) above the line has a tincture of green. Below the line, the field has a tincture of argent which means it is commonly colored white, but if it is made out of metal, then silver is used. The white/silver color in the lower field symbolizes the Sandebukta bay and the green color of the upper field symbolizes the forests and mountains that surround the bay. The arms were designed by Einar Engebretsen. The municipal flag has the same design as the coat of arms.^[9]^[10]^[11]

Churches

The Church of Norway had one parish (sokn) within the municipality of Sande. At the time of the municipal dissolution, it was part of the Nord-Jarlsberg prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Tunsberg.

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**Churches in Sande**
Parish (sokn)	Church name	Location of the church	Year built
Sande	Sande Church	Sande i Vestfold	1093

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Geography

The 568-metre (1,864 ft) tall mountain Presteseteråsen was the highest point in Sande, located in westernmost part of the municipality.^[12] The mountain Lauvkollen lies just northeast of Presteseteråsen.^[5]

Government

Sande Municipality was responsible for primary education (through 10th grade), outpatient health services, senior citizen services, unemployment, social services, zoning, economic development, and municipal roads. During its existence, this municipality was governed by a municipal council of directly elected representatives. The mayor was indirectly elected by a vote of the municipal council.^[13] The municipality was under the jurisdiction of the Drammen District Court and the Borgarting Court of Appeal.

Mayors

The mayors (Norwegian: ordfører) of Sande:^[14]

1838–1839: Captain Beichmann
1840–1843: Captain Schrøder
1844–1845: Halvor Olsen Rud
1846–1847: Lars Jørgensen Holst
1848–1851: Hans Tømmeraas
1852–1855: Hans Thoresen
1856–1857: Johan Thingelstad
1858–1861: Lars Holst
1862–1865: Bent Aasnæs
1866–1869: Stillef Breda
1870–1877: Otto Galleberg
1878–1881: Lars Windern
1882–1897: Johan Thingelstad
1898–1899: Lars Windern
1899–1901: Sven Aarrestad
1902–1904: Hans Gravningen
1905–1907: Sven Aarrestad
1908–1910: Otto Bonden (SmP)
1911–1913: Reier Kjeldaas (H)
1914–1916: Emil Mørkassel (V)
1917–1925: Hans Aasnæs (H)
1926-1926: Johannes Utne
1927–1928: Reier Kjeldaas (H)
1929–1934: Karl Stampe (Bp)
1935–1936: Evald Nilsen (Ap)
1936–1937: Ole Kjennerud (Ap)
1938–1941: Albert Pedersen (Ap)
1945-1945: Albert Pedersen (Ap)
1946–1951: Herman Trolsrud (Ap)
1952–1953: Karl Demberg (Ap)
1954–1955: Karsten Dalsrud (Ap)
1956–1979: Hans K. Evensen (Ap)
1980–1987: Erling Bamrud (Ap)
1988–1989: Sverre K. Nedberg (H)
1990–1991: Knut H. Slevigen (H)
1991–2015: Karl Einar Haslestad (Ap)
2015–2019: Elin G. Weggesrud (Ap)

Municipal council

The municipal council (Kommunestyre) of Sande was made up of 25 representatives that were elected to four-year terms. The tables below show the historical composition of the council by political party.