Vegusdal

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title: "Vegusdal" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["birkenes", "former-municipalities-of-norway", "1877-establishments-in-norway", "1967-disestablishments-in-norway"] description: "Former municipality in Aust-Agder, Norway" topic_path: "geography/norway" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegusdal" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Former municipality in Aust-Agder, Norway ::

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Field	Value
name	Vegusdal
herred	yes
former	yes
image_skyline	Vegusdal kirke.JPG
image_caption	View of the local Vegusdal Church
idnumber	0934
county	Aust-Agder
capital	Engesland
established	1 Jan 1877
preceded	Evje og Vegusdal Municipality
disestablished	1 Jan 1967
succeeded	Birkenes Municipality
demonyms	Veggdøl
Veggedøl
area_total_km2	325
area_footnotes
population_as_of	1967
population_total	582
population_density_km2	auto
coordinates
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Vegusdal is a former municipality in the old Aust-Agder county in Norway. The 325 km2 municipality existed from 1877 until its dissolution in 1967. It was located in the northwestern part of the present-day municipality of Birkenes in Agder county. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Engesland where Vegusdal Church is located. The Norwegian County Road 405 (Fv 405) runs through Vegusdal south to the village of Mosby in Vennesla.

History

The municipality was established on 1 January 1877 when the old municipality of Evje og Vegusdal was divided into Vegusdal (population: 935) in the east and Evje (population: 870) in the west. In 1900, the municipality had 985 inhabitants distributed among 141 farms. During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1967, Vegusdal (population: 582) was merged with the neighboring municipalities of Birkenes (population: 1,883) and Herefoss (population: 585) to form a new, larger municipality of Birkenes.

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Vegusdal farm () since the first Vegusdal Church was built there. The first element is derived from the old male name, Veikolfr. The male name itself was a compound name with the first component Veik- coming from which means "weak" and the second component -olfr was a variant form of the more common male name Úlfr (also spelled Ulfr, from Old Norse úlfr, "wolf"; cf. Icelandic Úlfur and Faroese ). The last element of the name is which means "valley" or "dale". Thus this is the "valley of Weak-Ulfr (or Weak-Wolf)".

Government

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.

Municipal council

The municipal council (Herredsstyre) of Vegusdal was made up of 13 representatives that were elected to four year terms. The tables below show the historical composition of the council by political party. |name = Vegusdal |herad = yes |start = 1964 |end = 1967 |reference = |Total = 13 |Arbeiderpartiet = 4 |Senterpartiet = 7 |Venstre = 2 |}} |name = Vegusdal |herad = yes |start = 1960 |end = 1963 |reference = |collapsed = yes |Total = 13 |Arbeiderpartiet = 4 |Senterpartiet = 6 |Venstre = 3 |}} |name = Vegusdal |herad = yes |start = 1956 |end = 1959 |reference = |collapsed = yes |Total = 13 |Arbeiderpartiet = 4 |Senterpartiet = 7 |Venstre = 2 |}} |name = Vegusdal |herad = yes |start = 1952 |end = 1955 |reference = |collapsed = yes |Total = 12 |Arbeiderpartiet = 4 |Senterpartiet = 5 |Venstre = 3 |}} |name = Vegusdal |herad = yes |start = 1948 |end = 1951 |reference = |collapsed = yes |Total = 12 |Arbeiderpartiet = 4 |Senterpartiet = 6 |DRF/V = 2 |}} |name = Vegusdal |herad = yes |start = 1945 |end = 1947 |reference = |collapsed = yes |Total = 12 |Arbeiderpartiet = 5 |Senterpartiet = 5 |DRF/V = 2 |}} |name = Vegusdal |herad = yes |start = 1938 |end = 1941* |reference = |collapsed = yes |Total = 12 |Senterpartiet = 6 |Venstre = 3 |Arbeiderpartiet = 3 |}}

References

References

1. (2014-11-21). "Vegusdal – tidligere kommune". [[Kunnskapsforlaget]].
2. Jukvam, Dag. (1999). "Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen". [[Statistics Norway.
3. Rygh, Oluf. (1905). "Norske gaardnavne: Nedenes amt". W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri.
4. (2022-09-20). "kommunestyre". [[Kunnskapsforlaget]].
5. (1964). "Kommunevalgene 1963". Statistisk sentralbyrå.
6. (1960). "Kommunevalgene og Ordførervalgene 1959". Statistisk sentralbyrå.
7. (1957). "Kommunevalgene og Ordførervalgene 1955". Statistisk sentralbyrå.
8. (1952). "Kommunevalgene og Ordførervalgene 1951". Statistisk sentralbyrå.
9. (1948). "Kommunevalgene og Ordførervalgene 1947". Statistisk sentralbyrå.
10. (1947). "Kommunevalgene og Ordførervalgene 1945". Statistisk sentralbyrå.
11. (1938). "Kommunevalgene og Ordførervalgene 1937". Statistisk sentralbyrå.

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