Hopen, Møre og Romsdal

Hopen herad
Former Municipality
Municipality ID	NO-1575
Adm. Center	Hopen
Area[1]
• Total	50 km^2 (20 sq mi)
Created from	Edøy in 1915
Merged into	Smøla in 1960

Hopen
Village
Hopen Location in Nordmøre
Coordinates: 63°27′48″N 08°00′50″E / 63.46333°N 8.01389°ECoordinates: 63°27′48″N 08°00′50″E / 63.46333°N 8.01389°E
Country	Norway
Region	Western Norway
County	Møre og Romsdal
District	Nordmøre
Municipality	Smøla
Elevation[2]	10 m (30 ft)
Time zone	CET (UTC+01:00)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+02:00)
Post Code	6570 Smøla

Hopen is a village (and a former municipality) in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The village of Hopen is the administrative center of Smøla Municipality. The village lies east of the villages of Dyrnes and Råket on the northern coast of the island of Smøla. The main road through Hopen is Norwegian County Road 669 which also heads north connecting many small islands and ending at the island village of Veiholmen. Hopen Church is located in the village.^[1]

Hopen municipality

The former municipality of Hopen covered the northern part of the present-day Smøla Municipality. It was the northeastern third of the island of Smøla as well as all the surrounding islets. The municipality existed from 1915 until 1960 when it was merged into Smøla municipality.^[1]

History

The municipality of Hopen was established on 1 January 1915 when the large municipality of Edøy was split into three to form the new municipalities of Edøy, Hopen, and Brattvær. Initially, Hopen had a population of 1,050. On 1 January 1960, the 1915 partition was reversed, reuniting the municipalities of Brattvær, Edøy, and Hopen under the new name of Smøla. Before the merger, Hopen had a population of 1,550.^[3]

References

1. Store norske leksikon. "Hopen – Møre og Romsdal" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2010-12-12.
2. "Hopen" (in Norwegian). yr.no. Retrieved 2010-12-12.
3. Jukvam, Dag (1999). "Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Statistisk sentralbyrå.