| 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]
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]
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]
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]
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.
| Aldersund | Aldersund Church | Haugland | 1971 |
| Lurøy | Lovund Church | Lovund | 1960 |
| Lurøy Church | Lurøya | 1812 | |
| Moflag Church | Moflaget | 1921 |
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.
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).
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.
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.
The mayors of Lurøy:[13]
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.
Coordinates are approximate.
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 |
. Norske gaardnavne: Nordlands amt . 1905 . W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri . 16 . Kristiania, Norge . 154, 156 . Norwegian . Oluf Rygh.