Hjelme

Hjelme is a former municipality in the old Hordaland county in Norway. The 19-square-kilometre (7.3 sq mi) municipality was located within the northern part of the present-day municipality of Øygarden. It existed from 1910 until 1964. The administrative centre was located at Hjelme, where the Old Hjelme Church was located. The municipality included the main islands of Alvøyna, Seløyna, Lyngøyna, and Hernar as well as many smaller surrounding islands. The Fedjeosen strait was the northern boundary, the Hjeltefjorden was the eastern boundary, the small Nordra Straumøysundet strait was the southern boundary, and the North Sea was to the west.^[3]

Hjelme Municipality Hjelme herad
Former municipality
Hjelmen herred  (historic name)
Hordaland within Norway
Hjelme within Hordaland
Coordinates: 60.6481°N 4.8183°E / 60.6481; 4.8183
Country	Norway
County	Hordaland
District	Nordhordland
Established	1 Jan 1910
• Preceded by	Manger Municipality
Disestablished	1 Jan 1964
• Succeeded by	Øygarden Municipality
Administrative centre	Hjelme
Area  (upon dissolution)
• Total	19 km2 (7 sq mi)
Population  (1963)
• Total	989
• Density	52/km2 (130/sq mi)
Demonym	Hjelmesokning[1]
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	NO-1259[2]
Data from Statistics Norway

History

On 1 January 1910, the western district of the municipality of Manger (population: 986) was separated to form its own municipality called Hjelmen. On 5 November 1912 the name was changed from Hjelmen to Hjelme by royal resolution. 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 Hjelme (population: 956) was merged with the majority of the neighboring municipality of Herdla to form the new municipality named "Øygarden".^[4]

Name

The municipality is named after the old Hjelme farm (Old Norse: Hjalma). The name was likely the old name for the island of Hjelme. The name is the plural form of hjalmr which means "helmet", likely referring to a helmet-shaped mountain on the island near the farm.^[5] Historically, the name of the municipality was spelled Hjelmen. On 5 November 1912, a royal resolution changed the spelling of the name of the municipality to Hjelme.^[6]

Churches

• 
  The Old Hjelme Church in 1875
• 
  The Old Hjelme Church in the present day
• 
  The "new" Hjelme Church

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.^[7]

Municipal council

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

Hjelme heradsstyre 1960–1963 ^[8]  

Party name (in Nynorsk)		Number of representatives
	Local List(s) (Lokale lister)	13
Total number of members:		13

Hjelme heradsstyre 1956–1959 ^[9]  

Party name (in Nynorsk)		Number of representatives
	Labour Party (Arbeidarpartiet)	2
	Local List(s) (Lokale lister)	11
Total number of members:		13

Hjelme heradsstyre 1952–1955 ^[10]  

Party name (in Nynorsk)		Number of representatives
	Labour Party (Arbeidarpartiet)	2
	Local List(s) (Lokale lister)	10
Total number of members:		12

Hjelme heradsstyre 1948–1951 ^[11]  

Party name (in Nynorsk)		Number of representatives
	Labour Party (Arbeidarpartiet)	2
	List of workers, fishermen, and small farmholders (Arbeidarar, fiskarar, småbrukarar liste)	7
	Local List(s) (Lokale lister)	3
Total number of members:		12

Hjelme heradsstyre 1945–1947 ^[12]  

Party name (in Nynorsk)		Number of representatives
	Labour Party (Arbeidarpartiet)	5
	Joint List(s) of Non-Socialist Parties (Borgarlege Felleslister)	6
	Local List(s) (Lokale lister)	1
Total number of members:		12

Hjelme heradsstyre 1938–1941* ^[13]  

Party name (in Nynorsk)		Number of representatives
	Labour Party (Arbeidarpartiet)	4
	List of workers, fishermen, and small farmholders (Arbeidarar, fiskarar, småbrukarar liste)	1
	Local List(s) (Lokale lister)	7
Total number of members:		12
Note: Due to the German occupation of Norway during World War II, no elections were held for new municipal councils until after the war ended in 1945.

See also

• List of former municipalities of Norway

References

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1. "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
2. Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (26 January 2023). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.
3. Store norske leksikon. "Hjelme" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 20 November 2014.
4. Jukvam, Dag (1999). Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen (PDF) (in Norwegian). Statistisk sentralbyrå. ISBN 9788253746845.
5. Rygh, Oluf (1910). Norske gaardnavne: Søndre Bergenhus amt (in Norwegian) (11 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. p. 388.
6. "Norsk Lovtidende. 2den Afdeling. 1912. Samling af Love, Resolutioner m.m". Norsk Lovtidend (in Norwegian). Oslo, Norway: Grøndahl og Søns Boktrykkeri: 532. 1912.
7. Hansen, Tore; Vabo, Signy Irene, eds. (20 September 2022). "kommunestyre". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
8. "Kommunevalgene og Ordførervalgene 1959" (PDF). Oslo: Statistisk sentralbyrå. 1960. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
9. "Kommunevalgene og Ordførervalgene 1955" (PDF). Oslo: Statistisk sentralbyrå. 1957. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
10. "Kommunevalgene og Ordførervalgene 1951" (PDF). Oslo: Statistisk sentralbyrå. 1952. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
11. "Kommunevalgene og Ordførervalgene 1947" (PDF). Oslo: Statistisk sentralbyrå. 1948. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
12. "Kommunevalgene og Ordførervalgene 1945" (PDF). Oslo: Statistisk sentralbyrå. 1947. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
13. "Kommunevalgene og Ordførervalgene 1937" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Oslo: Statistisk sentralbyrå. 1938. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
14. Hjelme kyrkjelyd (Den Norske Kirke: Bjørgvin, Vesthordland, Fellesråd)
15. Hjelme Church (Øygarden)