Hægeland (municipality)
| Hægeland herred | |
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| Former Municipality | |
View of the local church in Hægeland
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 Hægeland herred
Hægeland herred
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| Coordinates: 58°23′00″N 07°44′28″E / 58.38333°N 7.74111°ECoordinates: 58°23′00″N 07°44′28″E / 58.38333°N 7.74111°E | |
| Country | Norway |
| Region | Southern Norway |
| County | Vest-Agder |
| District | Sørlandet |
| Municipality ID | NO-1015 |
| Adm. Center | Hægelandskrossen |
| Area | |
| • Total | 194 km2 (75 sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+01:00) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+02:00) |
| Created as | Øvrebø og Hægeland in 1896 |
| Merged into | Vennesla in 1964 |
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.
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 together 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).
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Hægeland farm (Old Norse: Helgaland) since that is where the Hægeland Church was located. The first element of the name means "holy" (Old Norse: heilagr and Norwegian: hellig) and the last element (Old Norse: land) is identical with the word land which means "". This area was important to ancient Norse pagan worship.
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