Fåberg is a former municipality in the old Oppland county, Norway . The 478-square-kilometre (185 sq mi) municipality existed from 1838 until 1964. Now, it is part of Lillehammer Municipality in Innlandet county. The administrative centre was the village of Fåberg .
8-530: The prestegjeld of Faaberg (later spelled Fåberg ) was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt law). On 1 January 1906, a part of Faaberg (population: 140) that was adjacent to the town of Lillehammer was transferred from Faaberg to the town of Lillehammer. During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee . On 1 January 1964, Fåberg Municipality (population: 13,381)
16-591: Is berg which means " mountain " or "rock". On 21 December 1917, a royal resolution enacted the 1917 Norwegian language reforms . Prior to this change, the name was spelled Faaberg with the digraph " aa ", and after this reform, the name was spelled Fåberg , using the letter å instead. While it existed, this municipality was responsible for primary education (through 10th grade), outpatient health services , senior citizen services, unemployment , social services , zoning , economic development , and municipal roads . During its existence, this municipality
24-531: The law was changed so that each diocese employed the priests within its areas. Between 2004 and 2012, the prestegjeld was phased out of the Church of Norway. The new structure replaced the prestegjeld with the already-existing deanery ( prosti ). The sokn (sub-parishes or congregations) are the basic units of the church and all of the sokn within each municipality in Norway forms a governing church council for
32-523: Was a geographic and administrative area within the Church of Norway ( Den Norske Kirke ) roughly equivalent to a parish . This traditional designation was in use for centuries to divide the kingdom into ecclesiastical areas that were led by a parish priest. Prestegjelds began in the 1400s and were officially discontinued in 2012. Prior to the discontinuation of the prestegjeld , Norway was geographically divided into 11 dioceses ( bispedømme ). Each diocese
40-425: Was further divided into deaneries ( prosti ). Each of those deaneries were divided into several parishes ( prestegjeld ). Each parish was made up of one or more sub-parishes or congregations ( sogn or sokn ). Within a prestegjeld , there were usually one or more clerical positions ( chaplains ) serving under the administration of a head minister ( sogneprest or sokneprest ). In 1838, the formannskapsdistrikt law
48-545: Was governed by a municipal council of directly elected representatives. The mayor was indirectly elected by a vote of the municipal council. The municipal council (Herredsstyre) of Fåberg was made up of representatives that were elected to four year terms. The party breakdown of the final municipal council was as follows: The mayors of Fåberg (incomplete list): Notable people that were born or lived in Fåberg include: Prestegjeld A prestegjeld
56-409: Was merged with the town of Lillehammer (population: 5,905) to form a new Lillehammer Municipality . The municipality (originally the parish ) is named after the old Faaberg farm ( Old Norse : Fágaberg ) since the first Fåberg Church was built there. The meaning of the first element is uncertain, but it may come from the word fága which means "to clean" or "to polish". The last element
64-438: Was passed in Norway and it created civil municipalities that corresponded to the same borders as the ecclesiastical prestegjelds . Prior to that time there was no local government in Norway apart from the church's parishes. Today's municipalities have changed some, but their roots are all based on the prestegjeld. Historically, the government employed all the priests working in all of the prestegjelds across Norway. In 1989,
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