Beitstad

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Beitstad is a village and former municipality in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It was created in 1837 as Beitstad formannskapsdistrikt.

On January 1, 1904 the district of Namdalseid was separated from Beitstad to create a municipality of its own. The split left Beitstad with 2,946 inhabitants. On July 1, 1913 another split took place, leaving Malm as a separate municipality and Beitstad with a population of 1,934.

On 1 January 1964 Beitstad merged with Egge, Kvam, Ogndal, Sparbu, Steinkjer and Stod to form the enlarged Steinkjer municipality. Before the merger Egge had a population of 2,563.