Vigmostad (municipality)
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| Former Municipality | |
View of Vigmostad Church in the early 1900s
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Vigmostad herred
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| Coordinates: 58°12′10″N 07°20′02″E / 58.20278°N 7.33389°ECoordinates: 58°12′10″N 07°20′02″E / 58.20278°N 7.33389°E | |
| Country | Norway |
| Region | Southern Norway |
| County | Vest-Agder |
| District | Sørlandet |
| Municipality ID | NO-1028 |
| Adm. Center | Vigmostad |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+01:00) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+02:00) |
| Created from | Nord-Audnedal in 1911 |
| Merged into | Lindesnes in 1964 |
Vigmostad is a former municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1911 until its dissolution in 1964. The old municipality roughly covered the northern part of the present-day municipality of Lindesnes. The administrative centre was the village of Vigmostad where Vigmostad Church is located.
The municipality of Vigmostad was established on 1 January 1911 when the old municipality of Nord-Audnedal was divided into Vigmostad (population: 923) and Konsmo (population: 782). During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1964, Vigmostad municipality was dissolved and its area was merged with the neighboring municipalities of Sør-Audnedal and Spangereid to create the new municipality of Lindesnes. Prior to the merger, Vigmostad had a population of 589.
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Vigmostad farm (Old Norse: Vígmundarstaðir), since that is the location of Vigmostad Church. The first element of the name is the old male name Vígmundar (river-mouth) or Vígmarr (river-mare(sea)) and the last element is staðir which means "homestead" or "farm".
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