Lurøy Explained

Lurøy
Former Name:Lurø herred
Idnumber:1834
County:Nordland
District:Helgeland
Capital:Lurøy
Established:1 Jan 1838
Demonym:Lurøyværing
Language:Bokmål
Coatofarms:Lurøy komm.svg
Webpage:www.luroy.kommune.no
Mayor:Håkon Lund
Mayor Party:H
Mayor As Of:2019
Area Rank:275
Area Total Km2:265.19
Area Land Km2:258.13
Area Water Km2:7.06
Area Water Percent:2.7
Population As Of:2023
Population Rank:286
Population Total:1852
Population Density Km2:7.2
Population Increase:-3.3
Coordinates:66.4319°N 12.855°W
Utm Zone:33W
Utm Northing:7369721
Utm Easting:0404314
Geo Cat:adm2nd

Lurøy 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 Lurøy, located on the island of Lurøya. Other villages in Lurøy include Aldra, Haugland, Konsvikosen, Lovund, Sleneset / Solværøyene, Stokkvågen, and Tonnes.

The municipality is located on the coast just south of the Arctic Circle, on the western edge of the Saltfjellet mountain range. The Lurøygården (Lurøy Farm) on the island of Lurøya is a more-than-200-year-old renaissance garden with old plants, a pool, and a nearly 20m (70feet) high Copper Beech.

The 265km2 municipality is the 275th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Lurøy is the 286th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 1,852. The municipality's population density is and its population has decreased by 3.3% over the previous 10-year period.[1] [2]

General information

Lurøy was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt law). On 1 January 1872, the far western island district (population: 289) was separated from Lurøy to become the new municipality of Træna. This left Lurøy with 1,554 residents. The borders of Lurøy have not changed since that time.[3]

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the island of Lurøya (Norse, Old: Lúðrøy) since the first Lurøy Church was built there. The first element is which means "hollowed log" (here probably referring to the form of the mountain of the island). The last element is which means "island".[4] Historically, the name of the municiaplity was spelled Lurø. On 6 January 1908, a royal resolution changed the spelling of the name of the municipality to Lurøy.[5]

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was granted on 22 August 1986. The official blazon is "Or, a navigation cairn sable" (Norwegian: I gull en svart sjøvarde). This means the arms have a field (background) that has a tincture of Or which means it is commonly colored yellow, but if it is made out of metal, then gold is used. The charge is black navigational cairn. This was chosen to symbolize the local dependence on fishing and sailing in this island municipality. The arms were designed by Olga Nilsen after a proposal by Dagmar Vilfridadottir Olaisen.[6] [7] [8]

Churches

The Church of Norway has two parishes (Norwegian: sokn) within the municipality of Lurøy. It is part of the Nord-Helgeland prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland.

Churches in Lurøy!Parish (Norwegian: sokn)!!Church name!!Location of the church!!Year built
AldersundAldersund ChurchHaugland1971
LurøyLovund ChurchLovund1960
Lurøy ChurchLurøya1812
Moflag ChurchMoflaget1921

Geography and climate

Lurøy is located on the western coast of Helgeland. The small strip of mainland Lurøy runs from Tonnes in the north along Norwegian County Road 17 to Stokkvågen along the Sjona fjord in the south. The rest of the municipality is located on 1,375 islands located to the west of the mainland. The major islands include Aldra, Lurøya, Onøya, Stigen, Solvær, and Lovund. There are also two islands in the northern part of Lurøya that are divided between Lurøy and neighboring Rødøy Municipality: Nesøya and Hestmona.[9]

The populated islands are reached by car ferry from Stokkvågen on the mainland. The ferry reaches Onøy (which has a bridge to Lurøya), Solvær and Lovund 5 times per day.

Climate

Norwegian Meteorological Institute has operated weather stations on Solvær islands since 1939. Data shows a marine west coast climate (oceanic climate) with very mild winters for the high latitude. Spring and summer are the driest seasons, while December is the wettest month. The all-time high was recorded in July 2018, and the all-time low is from February 1966. The average date for the last overnight freeze (low below 0°C) in spring is 20 April[10] and average date for first freeze in autumn is 5 November[11] giving a frost-free season of 198 days (1981-2010 average for Solvær).

Government

All municipalities in Norway are responsible for primary education (through 10th grade), outpatient health services, senior citizen services, welfare and other social services, zoning, economic development, and municipal roads and utilities. The municipality is governed by a municipal council of directly elected representatives. The mayor is indirectly elected by a vote of the municipal council.[12] The municipality is under the jurisdiction of the Helgeland District Court and the Hålogaland Court of Appeal.

Municipal council

The municipal council (Norwegian: Kommunestyre) of Lurøy is made up of 19 representatives that are elected to four year terms. The tables below show the current and historical composition of the council by political party.

Mayors

The mayors of Lurøy:[13]

Notable people

Farms of Lurøy

Following are the farms in Lurøy municipality, as they are listed in O. Rygh's series "Norske Gaardnavne" ("Norwegian Farm Names"), the Nordland volume of which was published in 1905.Here is the digital version of that volume:<Norske_gaardnavne_bd_Nordlands>

The farm numbers are used in some census records, and numbers that are near each other indicate that those farms are geographically proximate. Handwritten Norwegian sources, particularly those prior to 1800, may use variants on these names. For recorded variants before 1723, see the digital version of O. Rygh.

Farm names were often used as part of Norwegian names, in addition to the person's given name and patronymic or inherited surname. Some families retained the farm name, or toponymic, as a surname when they emigrated, so in those cases tracing a surname may tell you specifically where in Norway the family was from. This tradition began to change in the mid to late 19th century, and inherited surnames were codified into law in 1923.

Map of the farms of Lurøy

Coordinates are approximate.

Farm names and numbers

If you can't find an entry when you are searching for a word that starts with AE, Ae, O, A or Aa, it may have been transcribed from one of those letters not used in English. Try looking for it under the Norwegian letter; Æ, Ø, and Å appear at the end of the Norwegian alphabet.

Farm Name Farm Number
Lovunden 1
Grønningen 2
Troldøen 3
Sengsdraget 4
Juløen 5
Risvær 6
Solvær søndre 7
Moflaget 8
Slaaterøen 9
Ulvøen 10
Lunderøen 11
Solvær norde 12
Reløen 13
Kvitvær 14
Sandvær 15
Maavær 16
Sutternes 17
Lurøen (island) 18
Svinøen 19
Onøen indre 20
Onøen ytre 21
Stoksvik 22
Sjonøen 23
Sundet 24
Klippingvaag 25
Kokviken 25, 3
Silen 26
Bogen 27
Røitvik 28
Selnes 29
Haugland 30
Aas (Ås) 31
Vatnet 32
Bratland 33
Lien 34
Olvikvatnet 35
Alderen 36
Hjart 37
Aspnes 38
Ørnes 39
Stuvland 40
Okstind 41
Fingammen 42
Kvinen 43
Konsvik 44
Kokviken 45
Aspdalen 46
Tonnes 47
Kvarøen indre 48
Kvarøen ytre 49
Hestmoen 50
Nesøen søndre 51

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Statistisk sentralbyrå . Statistics Norway . Table: 06913: Population 1 January and population changes during the calendar year (M) . Norwegian.
  2. Web site: Statistisk sentralbyrå . Statistics Norway . 09280: Area of land and fresh water (km²) (M) . Norwegian.
  3. Web site: Jukvam . Dag . 1999 . Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen . . Norwegian.
  4. Book: Rygh, Oluf . Oluf Rygh

    . Norske gaardnavne: Nordlands amt . 1905 . W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri . 16 . Kristiania, Norge . 154, 156 . Norwegian . Oluf Rygh.

  5. 1908 . Norsk Lovtidende. 2den Afdeling. 1908. Samling af Love, Resolutioner m.m . . no . Kristiania, Norge . Grøndahl og Søns Boktrykkeri . 24.
  6. Web site: Civic heraldry of Norway - Norske Kommunevåpen . 2023-02-02 . Heraldry of the World.
  7. Web site: Lurøy, Nordland (Norway) . 2023-02-02 . Flags of the World.
  8. Web site: 1986-08-22 . Godkjenning av våpen og flagg . 2023-02-02 . Lovdata.no . Norges kommunal- og arbeidsdepartementet . no.
  9. Web site: Store norske leksikon . Store norske leksikon . Lurøy . 2012-01-30 . Norwegian.
  10. Web site: 4 May 2012 . Siste frostnatt om våren .
  11. Web site: 25 September 2013 . Første frostnatt .
  12. Encyclopedia: kommunestyre . . . 2022-09-20 . Hansen . Tore . Norwegian . Vabo . Signy Irene . 2022-10-14.
  13. Web site: Roland . Kåre . Ordførere i Lurøy . https://web.archive.org/web/20070929021937/http://www.luroy.folkebibl.no/luroy_ordforere_lokalhist.htm . 2007-09-29 . 2023-03-02 . no.