Eide

Eide kommune
—  Municipality  —
Coat of arms Møre og Romsdal within Norway
Eide within Møre og Romsdal
Coordinates: 62°55′41″N 7°22′25″E / 62.92806°N 7.37361°E / 62.92806; 7.37361Coordinates: 62°55′41″N 7°22′25″E / 62.92806°N 7.37361°E / 62.92806; 7.37361
Country	Norway
County	Møre og Romsdal
District	Nordmøre
Administrative centre	Eide
Government
- Mayor (2003)	Arnfinn Storvik (H)
Area
- Total	152.16 km2 (58.7 sq mi)
- Land	145.75 km2 (56.3 sq mi)
- Water	6.41 km2 (2.5 sq mi)
Area rank	356 in Norway
Population (2010)
- Total	3,382
- Rank	258 in Norway
- Density	23.2/km2 (60.1/sq mi)
- Change (10 years)	5.9 %
Demonym	Eidesokning[1]
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
- Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
ISO 3166 code	NO-1551
Official language form	Bokmål
Website	eide.kommune.no
Data from Statistics Norway

Eide is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the region of Nordmøre. It is located on the Romsdal peninsula, along the Kornstadfjord and the Kvernesfjord. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Eide. Other villages include Vevang and Visnes.

The town is known for its traditional and modern limestone (marble) quarries and related crafts industry. The Atlanterhavsveien coastal road connects Eide to neighboring Averøy. The municipal border lies at the Storseisundet Bridge on the Atlanterhavsveien road.

General information

The municipality of Eide was established on 1 January 1897 when it was separated from Kvernes. The initial population of the municipality was 1,552. On 1 January 1964, the Vevang area (population: 562) was transferred from Kornstad to Eide. On 1 January 1983, the uninhabited island of Eldhusøya (now part of the Atlanterhavsveien) was transferred from Eide to Averøy.^[2]

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Eide farm (Old Norse: Eið), since the first church was built there (in 1869). The name is identical with the word eið which means "isthmus" or "neck of land".^[3]

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 9 July 1982. The arms show three white whooping swans (Cygnus cygnus), which are very common in the many rich lakes in the area. Each swan has seven feathers, representing the seven villages in the municipality.^[4]

See also: Coat-of-arms of Gjøvik and Høylandet

Churches

The Church of Norway has one parish within the municipality of Eide. It is part of the Diocese of Møre and the Rural Deanery (Prosti) of Ytre Nordmøre.

References

External links

• Media related to Eide at Wikimedia Commons
• Møre og Romsdal travel guide from Wikitravel
• Municipal fact sheet from Statistics Norway