Grip (municipality)

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Grip herred
Former municipality
Official logo of Grip herred
Møre og Romsdal within
Norway
Grip within Møre og Romsdal
Grip within Møre og Romsdal
Coordinates: 63°13′10″N 7°35′35″E / 63.2195°N 7.5931°E / 63.2195; 7.5931Coordinates: 63°13′10″N 7°35′35″E / 63.2195°N 7.5931°E / 63.2195; 7.5931
CountryNorway
CountyMøre og Romsdal
DistrictNordmøre
Established1 Jan 1897
Disestablished1 Jan 1964
Administrative centreGripholmen
Area
 • Total0.48 km2 (0.19 sq mi)
 *Area at municipal dissolution.
Population
 (1964)
 • Total104
 • Rank744 (last) in Norway
 • Density220/km2 (560/sq mi)
Demonym(s)Gripværing[1]
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 codeNO-1555
Preceded byUnincorporated
Succeeded byKristiansund in 1964
Data from Statistics Norway

Grip (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈɡriːp]) is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. With a land area of only 0.48 square kilometres (120 acres) and a population of 104, Grip was the smallest municipality in Norway during its existence from 1897 until it merged with Kristiansund in 1964. Grip municipality included all the islands in the Grip archipelago. The administrative centre of the municipality was the one fishing village in the municipality, known as Gripholmen, where the historic Grip Stave Church is located.[2]

History[]

Grip lighthouse
View of Grip lighthouse

The formannskapsdistrikt law of 1837 required that every parish in Norway should be constituted as a municipality on 1 January 1838. It also required that parishes composed of a town with a rural district should be divided into two municipalities (a town municipality and a rural municipality). In 1837, the town of Kristiansand and the rural districts of Frei and Grip were part of the same parish. Frei became its own municipality under the new law, but Grip had no men with the right to vote so it was not considered a municipality, rather it was governed by Frei. Prior to 1884, the right to vote was in Norway was mostly limited to men with property. In a fishing village, such as Grip, where one merchant in the town owned all the houses, nobody had the right to vote, so Grip had no municipal government. Through constitutional changes in 1884, the right to vote was extended to all men who paid taxes. Since the fishermen in Grip paid income taxes, Grip finally had a voting population. Grip municipality was officially incorporated in 1897 with a population of 198 when it was separated from Frei.[3][2]

Grip municipality bought the fishing village from the merchant Ludvig Williamsen in 1909. The entire community had previously been the property of a merchant in Kristiansund, not including the church, school and three private houses. The price of 110,000 kr was financed through a public loan to be paid back in 45 years. The municipality then began selling the houses to their inhabitants. A census in 1910 showed a population of 187.

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 Grip (population: 104) was merged with the town of Kristiansund (population: 17,275) and the Dale area of the municipality of Bremsnes (population: 963) to form a new, larger Kristiansund Municipality.[4]

Etymology[]

The name is first recorded in 1338 as "Gripar" (Old Norse: Grípar) which is a plural form of the word (which makes sense since Grip is an archipelago). The etymology of the name is uncertain, but it is maybe related to the Norse verb grípa which means "catch", "seize", or "grip". If this is the case, then it probably refers to the catching of fish here.[5]

Government[]

All municipalities in Norway, including Grip, are responsible for primary education (through 10th grade), outpatient health services, senior citizen services, unemployment and other social services, zoning, economic development, and municipal roads. The municipality is governed by a municipal council of elected representatives, which in turn elects a mayor.[6]

Municipal council[]

The municipal council (Herredsstyre) of Grip was made up of 13 representatives that were elected to four year terms. The party breakdown of the final municipal council was as follows:

Grip Herredsstyre 1960–1963 [7]  
Party Name (in Norwegian) Number of
representatives
 Local List(s) (Lokale lister)13
Total number of members:13
Grip Herredsstyre 1956–1959 [8]  
Party Name (in Norwegian) Number of
representatives
 Local List(s) (Lokale lister)13
Total number of members:13
Grip Herredsstyre 1952–1955 [9]  
Party Name (in Norwegian) Number of
representatives
 Local List(s) (Lokale lister)12
Total number of members:12
Grip Herredsstyre 1948–1951 [10]  
Party Name (in Norwegian) Number of
representatives
 Local List(s) (Lokale lister)12
Total number of members:12
Grip Herredsstyre 1945–1947 [11]  
Party Name (in Norwegian) Number of
representatives
 Local List(s) (Lokale lister)12
Total number of members:12
Grip Herredsstyre 1938–1941* [12]  
Party Name (in Norwegian) Number of
representatives
 Local List(s) (Lokale lister)12
Total number of members:12

Media gallery[]

  • View of the village in 1967

  • The south harbour

  • Houses on the north side

  • Grip power station

  • The community house

  • The schoolhouse inn

  • The altar and triptych

  • Lighthouse with fishing village in background

  • The fishing village

  • Grip lighthouse

  • Grip on the horizon seen from neighbour island

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
  2. ^ a b Thorsnæs, Geir, ed. (2017-02-22). "Grip - tidligere kommune". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 2019-04-07.
  3. ^ "Informasjon om Kristiansund" (in Norwegian). DIS Norge. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
  4. ^ Jukvam, Dag (1999). "Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Statistisk sentralbyrå.
  5. ^ Rygh, Oluf (1908). Norske gaardnavne: Romsdals amt (in Norwegian) (13 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. p. 326.
  6. ^ Hansen, Tore, ed. (2016-05-12). "kommunestyre". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 2020-02-02.
  7. ^ "Kommunevalgene og Ordførervalgene 1959" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Oslo: Statistisk sentralbyrå. 1960. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
  8. ^ "Kommunevalgene og Ordførervalgene 1955" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Oslo: Statistisk sentralbyrå. 1957. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
  9. ^ "Kommunevalgene og Ordførervalgene 1951" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Oslo: Statistisk sentralbyrå. 1952. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
  10. ^ "Kommunevalgene og Ordførervalgene 1947" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Oslo: Statistisk sentralbyrå. 1948. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
  11. ^ "Kommunevalgene og Ordførervalgene 1945" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Oslo: Statistisk sentralbyrå. 1947. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
  12. ^ "Kommunevalgene og Ordførervalgene 1937" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Oslo: Statistisk sentralbyrå. 1938. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
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