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Åsane is a former municipality in the old Hordaland county in Norway. The municipality existed from 1904 until 1972. The 71-square-kilometre (27 sq mi) municipality encompassed the northern part of the Bergen Peninsula, roughly corresponding to the present-day borough of Åsane in the city-municipality of Bergen. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Eidsvåg. The main church for the municipality was Åsane Church. Historically, the area was called Aasene, but with spelling reforms in the Norwegian language, the modern spelling has been Åsane since about 1920.[2][3]

Åsane kommune Aasene herred
Former municipality
Flaktveit in Åsane, seen from Vareggen.
Hordaland within Norway
Åsane within Hordaland
Coordinates: 60°28′16″N 05°19′38″E
Country	Norway
County	Hordaland
District	Midhordland
Established	1 Jan 1904
• Preceded by	Hammer Municipality
Disestablished	1 Jan 1972
• Succeeded by	Bergen Municipality
Administrative centre	Eidsvåg
Government
• Mayor (1966-1971)	Henry Andreassen
Area  (upon dissolution)
• Total	71.01 km2 (27.42 sq mi)
Population  (1971)
• Total	18,161
• Density	260/km2 (660/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Åsabu[1]
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	NO-1255
Data from Statistics Norway

History

The large parish of Hammer existed for many centuries and within the parish existed the annex of Aasene. On 1 January 1904, the annex of Aasene (population: 1,625) was separated from the rest of Hammer to become a separate municipality. The original municipality included the northern part of the Bergen Peninsula, except for the coastal areas along the Salhusfjorden and Sørfjorden. On 1 July 1914, most of the northern coastal part of the Bergen peninsula (population: 644) was transferred to Aasene (except for the far northern tip around Tellevik). On 1 July 1938, the far northern tip of the Bergen peninsula around the villages of Tellevik and Hordvik were transferred from Hamre municipality to Åsane. The new municipality was small, but over the next several decades, there was major population growth due to the growing city of Bergen, located to the southwest, over the mountains. On 1 January 1972, the municipality of Åsane (population: 19,205) was merged into the city of Bergen (the other neighboring municipalities of Arna, Fana, and Laksevåg were also merged with Bergen on the same date).[3][4]

Government

All municipalities in Norway, including Åsane, 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 was governed by a municipal council of elected representatives, which in turn elected a mayor.[5]

Municipal council

The municipal council (Kommunestyre) of Åsane was made up of 41 representatives that were elected to four year terms. The party breakdown of the final municipal council was as follows:

Mayors

This is a list of the mayors who served Åsane:[3]

Term began	Term ended	Name
1904	1911	Vemund J. Tertnes
1911	1913	Konrad Meyer
1914	1919	Vemund J. Tertnes
1919	1925	Adolf Andersen
1925	1925	Johan Birkeland
1926	1928	Olav Sellevold
1929	1931	Nils Koltveit
1932	1935	Olav Sellevold
1936	1938	Anton Olsen
1939	1941	Olav Sellevold
1945	1945	Olav Sellevold
1946	1954	Olav Hordvik
1954	1955	Steffen J. Toppe
1956	1959	P. Leif Rutle
1960	1965	Kjeld Langeland
1966	1971	Henry Andreassen

See also

• List of former municipalities of Norway

References

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