Dypvåg
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Dypvåg is a former municipality in Aust-Agder
Aust-Agder
is a county in Norway, bordering Telemark, Rogaland, and Vest-Agder. In 2002, there were 102,945 inhabitants, which is 2.2% of the total population in Norway. Its area is . The administrative center of the county is in Arendal....

 county
Counties of Norway
Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called counties . The counties form the primary first-level subdivisions of Norway and are further divided into 430 municipalities...

, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. It is currently located within the municipality of Tvedestrand
Tvedestrand
is a town and municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sørlandet. The administrative center is the village of Tvedestrand....

 in the traditional region
Districts of Norway
The country Norway is historically divided into a number of districts. Many districts have deep historical roots, and only partially coincide with today's administrative units of counties and municipalities. The districts are defined by geographical features, often valleys, mountain ranges, fjords,...

 of Sørlandet about 8 kilometres (5 mi) east of the village of Tvedestrand.

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Dybvaag (Dypvåg) farm (Old Norse
Old Norse
Old Norse is a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300....

: Djúpvágr or Djúpivágr), since the first church was built there. The first element comes from dype which means "deep" and the last element is våg which means "water" or "harbor".

History

The parish
Parish
A parish is a territorial unit historically under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of one parish priest, who might be assisted in his pastoral duties by a curate or curates - also priests but not the parish priest - from a more or less central parish church with its associated organization...

 of Dybvaag was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt
Formannskapsdistrikt
Formannskapsdistrikt was the name for a Norwegian local self-government districts put into force in 1838. This system of municipality was created in a bill approved by the Storting and signed into law by King Carl Johan on 14 January 1837...

). On 1 January 1881, a part of the municipality of Holt (population: 52) was transferred to Dypvåg. Then later, on 1 January 1887, an uninhabited part of neighboring Søndeled
Søndeled
Søndeled is a former municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway. It is currently part of the municipality of Risør in the Sørlandet region. The municipality had an area of upon its dissolution. The highway Riksvei 418 passes through Søndeled. Stamsø is a village in Søndeled...

 municipality was transferred to Dypvåg.

On 1 January 1902, the area of Flosta
Flosta
Flosta is a former municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway. It is currently part of the municipality of Arendal in the Sørlandet region. The administrative center of Flosta was the village of Kilsund.-Name:...

 (population: 1,892) was separated from the rest of Dypvåg (population: 3,235) to form a municipality of its own. On 1 January 1960, the municipality of Dypvåg (population: 1,805) was merged with the neighboring municipalities of Holt and Tvedestrand to form a new, enlarged municipality of Tvedestrand which had a population of 6,432.

Notable residents

  • Jens Marcussen
    Jens Marcussen
    Jens Marcussen was a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party.Before the Progress Party was founded, Marcussen was a prominent member of the Conservative Party, being a member of the national party board in 1972–1975...

     (1926-2007), politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

  • Kristian Vilhelm Koren Schjelderup, Jr.
    Kristian Vilhelm Koren Schjelderup, Jr.
    Kristian Vilhelm Koren Schjelderup was a Norwegian Lutheran theologian, author, and bishop of the Diocese of Hamar in the Church of Norway from 1947 to 1964. He was noted as a controversial, liberal theologian.-Personal life:...

     (1894-1980), theologian
    Theology
    Theology is the systematic and rational study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truths, or the learned profession acquired by completing specialized training in religious studies, usually at a university or school of divinity or seminary.-Definition:Augustine of Hippo...

  • Peter Olrog Schjøtt (1833-1926), philologist
    Philology
    Philology is the study of language in written historical sources; it is a combination of literary studies, history and linguistics.Classical philology is the philology of Greek and Classical Latin...

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