Samnanger

Samnanger Municipality

*Samnanger kommune*
Samnanger Municipality Samnanger kommune
Municipality
	Flag Coat of arms
	Hordaland within Norway
	Samnanger within Hordaland
Country	Norway
County	Hordaland
District	Midhordland
Administrative centre	Tysse
Government
• Mayor (2015)	Knut Harald Frøland (Bygdalista)
Area
• Total	269.07 km2 (103.89 sq mi)
• Land	257.47 km2 (99.41 sq mi)
• Water	11.6 km2 (4.5 sq mi)
• Rank	#290 in Norway
Population (2014)
• Total	2,436
• Rank	#305 in Norway
• Density	9.5/km2 (25/sq mi)
• Change (10 years)	+4.5%
Demonym	Samning
Official language
• Norwegian form	Nynorsk
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	NO-1242
Website	Official website
	Data from Statistics Norway

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Samnanger is a municipality in the Midhordland region of Hordaland county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Tysse. Other main villages in the municipality include Haga and Bjørkheim in Nordbygda. The municipality is located about 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of the city of Bergen, Norway's second largest city. It surrounds the inner part of the Samnangerfjorden and the surrounding valleys. There are mountains that surround the municipality. The development of hydroelectric power plants started here in 1909.

General information

View of the area

The municipality of Samnanger was established on 1 January 1907 when it was separated from the municipality of Os on 1 January 1907. Initially, Samnanger had 3,025 residents. The borders of the municipality have not changed since that time.^[4]

Name

The name originally belonged to the fjord (now called the Samnangerfjorden). The meaning of the first element is unknown, and the last element is angr which means "fjord".^[5]

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 27 April 1990. It shows six yellow drops of water on a red field. Water was chosen as a symbol on the arms because of the wet climate and the source of hydroelectricity that is prevalent in the area. The designer of the arms was Even Jarl Skoglund.^[6]^[7]

See also: Coats of arms of Bykle and Tinn

Churches

The Church of Norway has one parish (sokn) within the municipality of Samnanger. It is part of the Hardanger og Voss deanery in the Diocese of Bjørgvin.

**Churches in Samnanger**
Parish (Sokn)	Church Name	Location of the Church	Year Built
Samnanger	Haga Church	Haga	1995
Samnanger	Samnanger Church	Ådland	1851

Government

All municipalities in Norway, including Samnanger, 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 elect a mayor.

Municipal council

View of some typical houses in Samnanger

The municipal council (Kommunestyre) of Samnanger is made up of 21 representatives that are elected to every four years. For 2015–2019, the party breakdown is as follows:^[8]

Samnanger kommunestyre 2015–2019
Party name (in Nynorsk)		Number of representatives
	Labour Party (Arbeidarpartiet)	5
	Progress Party (Framstegspartiet)	4
	Green Party (Miljøpartiet Dei Grøne)	1
	Conservative Party (Høgre)	2
	Christian Democratic Party (Kristeleg Folkeparti)	2
	Centre Party (Senterpartiet)	2
	Local List(s) (Lokale lister)	5
Total number of members:		21

Geography

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1951	2,503	—
1960	2,493	−0.4%
1970	2,180	−12.6%
1980	2,305	+5.7%
1990	2,412	+4.6%
2000	2,282	−5.4%
2010	2,375	+4.1%
2014	2,436	+2.6%
Source: Statistics Norway.

Samnanger lies at the inner end of the Samnangerfjorden. The municipalities of Fusa and Os lie to the south, Bergen is to the west, Vaksdal is to the north, and Kvam is to the east. Samnanger lies on the mainland of Norway, but its western parts lie on the Bergen Peninsula—a large peninsula connected to the mainland by a small isthmus of land running between Trengereid in Bergen and Trengereidfjorden in Samnanger.

The Gullfjellet mountains lie along the western border of the municipality. The mountain Sveningen lies at the tripoint border with Samnanger, Bergen, and Os. The Kvamskogen mountain plateau lies along the eastern border of the municipality.

References

^ "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
^ "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
^ Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (2023-01-26). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.
^ Jukvam, Dag (1999). "Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Statistisk sentralbyrå.
^ Store norske leksikon. "Samnanger" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2014-07-13.
^ "Kommunevåpen". Flags of the World. 28 June 2002. Retrieved 21 September 2008. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
^ "Civic heraldry of Norway - Norske Kommunevåpen". Heraldry of the World. Retrieved 2014-07-13.
^ "Members of the local councils, by party/electoral lists and municipality" (in Norwegian). Statistics Norway. 2015.

[1] "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.

[2] "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.

[3] Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (2023-01-26). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.

[4] Jukvam, Dag (1999). "Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Statistisk sentralbyrå.

[snl-5] Store norske leksikon. "Samnanger" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2014-07-13.

[6] "Kommunevåpen". Flags of the World. 28 June 2002. Retrieved 21 September 2008. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)

[7] "Civic heraldry of Norway - Norske Kommunevåpen". Heraldry of the World. Retrieved 2014-07-13.

[8] "Members of the local councils, by party/electoral lists and municipality" (in Norwegian). Statistics Norway. 2015.

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