Vevelstad

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This article is about the municipality in Nordland, Norway. For the place in Ski, Akershus, see Langhus.
Vevelstad kommune
Municipality
Coat of arms of Vevelstad kommune
Coat of arms		 Official logo of Vevelstad kommune
Nordland within
Norway
File:NO 1816 Vevelstad.svg
Vevelstad within Nordland
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Country Norway
County Nordland
District Helgeland
Administrative centre Vevelstad
Government
 • Mayor (2003) Ken-Richard Hansen (Sp)
Area
 • Total 538.83 km2 (208.04 sq mi)
 • Land 517.14 km2 (199.67 sq mi)
 • Water 21.69 km2 (8.37 sq mi)
Area rank 198 in Norway
Population (2011)
 • Total 520
 • Rank 427 in Norway
 • Density 1.0/km2 (3/sq mi)
 • Change (10 years) -9.7 %
Demonym(s) Vevelstadværing[1]
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
ISO 3166 code NO-1816
Official language form Bokmål
Website www.vevelstad.kommune.no
Data from Statistics Norway

Vevelstad is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the Helgeland traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Forvika.

General information

View of the Velfjorden, Vevelstad is on the left side of the fjord.

The municipality of Vevelstad was established on 1 July 1916 when it was separated from the municipality of Tjøtta. Initially, the municipality had 1,097 residents. On 1 July 1920, the Giskåen farm area (population: 10) was transferred from Tjøtta to Vevelstad.[2]

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Vevelstad farm (Old Norse: Vifilsstaðir), since the first church was built there. The first element is the genitive case of the Norse male name Vifill and the last element is staðir which means "homestead" or "farm".[3]

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times; they were granted on 13 November 1991. The arms are canting, showing the first letter of the name, V. The municipality already applied for arms in the 1970s, but all the proposals were rejected by either the council or the national archives. Finally the above arms were adopted and granted.[4]

Churches

The Church of Norway has one parish (sokn) within the municipality of Vevelstad. It is part of the Sør-Helgeland deanery in the Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland.

Churches in Vevelstad
Parish
(Sokn)		 Church Name Location
of the Church		 Year Built
Vevelstad Vevelstad Church Vevelstad 1796

Geography

The municipality lies in the middle of Norway, surrounded by mountains and fjords. A lot of the municipality is a part of Lomsdal–Visten National Park. The lake Søre Vistvatnet lies in the southeastern part of the municipality inside the national park. Most of the residents live along the coastline or on the island Hamnøya. The mouth of the Velfjorden lies in the southern part of the municipality.

References

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