Flå, Sør-Trøndelag Explained

Flå
Herred:	yes
Former:	yes
Former Name:	Flaa herred
Idnumber:	1652
County:	Sør-Trøndelag
District:	Gauldalen
Capital:	Ler
Established:	1 Jan 1880
Disestablished:	1 Jan 1964
Succeeded:	Melhus Municipality
Demonym:	Flåbygg
Coatofarms:	none
Flag:	none
Population As Of:	1964
Population Total:	843
Population Density Km2:	auto
Coordinates:	63.1975°N 10.3031°W

Flå is a former municipality in the old Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The approximately 110km2 municipality existed from 1880 until its dissolution in 1964. Flå was located in the eastern part of what is now the municipality of Melhus in Trøndelag county. The administrative centre was the village of Ler. The main church for the area is Flå Church.^[1]

History

The municipality of Flaa was established in 1880 when the municipality of Melhus was divided into two. The new municipality of Flaa had an initial population of 614. The spelling was later changed to Flå. During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1964, the neighboring municipalities of Hølonda (population: 1,428), Horg (population: 2,560), Flå (population: 843), Melhus (population: 3,978), and the Langørgen farm (population: 11) in Buvik were all merged to form a new, larger municipality of Melhus.^[2]

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Flå farm (Norse, Old: Flár) since the first Flå Church was built there. The name is the plural form of which means "a flat ledge on a mountainside".^[3] On 21 December 1917, a royal resolution enacted the 1917 Norwegian language reforms. Prior to this change, the name was spelled Flaa with the digraph "aa", and after this reform, the name was spelled Flå, using the letter å instead.^{[4] [5]}

Government

During its existence, this municipality was governed by a municipal council of elected representatives, which in turn elected a mayor.^[6]

Mayors

The mayors of Flå:^[7]

• 1880–1894: Erik Andersen Kirkflaa (MV)
• 1895–1898: Ole J. Bolland (MV)
• 1899–1901: Lars Busklein (H)
• 1902–1910: Nils Johnsen Borten (H)
• 1911–1913: Henrik Larsen Reitan (H)
• 1914–1916: O.K. Solstad (V)
• 1917–1919: Ole A. Flaarønning (H)
• 1920–1922: O.K. Solstad (V)
• 1923–1925: Henrik Larsen Reitan (Bp)
• 1926–1941: Eyvind Borten (Bp)
• 1941–1945: Erik Engan (NS)
• 1945-1945: Anders Krigsvoll (V)
• 1946–1955: Per Borten (Bp)
• 1956–1959: Håkon Dahl(Bp)
• 1960–1963: Ingebrigt Bjørseth (Sp)

Municipal council

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

Notable people

• Per Borten, who later became a Prime Minister of Norway, was the mayor of this municipality from 1945 until 1955.

See also

• List of former municipalities of Norway

Notes and References

1. Web site: Store norske leksikon . Store norske leksikon . Flå – sogn og tidl. kommune i Sør-Trøndelag . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121022172709/http://snl.no/Fl%c3%a5/sogn_og_tidl._kommune_i_S%c3%b8r-Tr%c3%b8ndelag . 2012-10-22 . 2011-03-17 . no.
2. Book: Jukvam, Dag . Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen . . 1999 . 9788253746845 . no.
3. Book: Rygh, Oluf . Oluf Rygh

   . Norske gaardnavne: Søndre Trondhjems amt . 1901 . W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri . 14 . Kristiania, Norge . 170 and 274 . no . Oluf Rygh.

4. 1917 . Norsk Lovtidende. 2den Afdeling. 1917. Samling af Love, Resolutioner m.m . . no . Oslo, Norway . Grøndahl og Søns Boktrykkeri . 1000.
5. Book: Den Nye rettskrivning : regler og ordlister . Den Mallingske Boktrykkeri . 1918 . Kristiania, Norge . no.
6. Encyclopedia: kommunestyre . . . 2023-01-01 . 2022-09-20 . Hansen . Tore . no . Vabo . Signy Irene.
7. Book: Flårønning, Sigurd . Norges bebyggelse. Nordlige seksjon. Herredsbindet for Sør-Trøndelag. Østre del. I–II . Faglitteratur . 1978 . Fiskaa . Haakon M. . Trondheim . 116–125 . no . Flå . Myckland . Haakon Falck.