Stokke

This article is about the municipality in Vestfold, Norway. For other uses, see Stokke (disambiguation).
Stokke kommune
Municipality

Coat of arms
Vestfold within
Norway

Stokke within Vestfold
Coordinates: 59°14′24″N 10°16′15″E / 59.24000°N 10.27083°ECoordinates: 59°14′24″N 10°16′15″E / 59.24000°N 10.27083°E
Country Norway
County Vestfold
Administrative centre Stokke
Government
 • Mayor (2007) Nils Ingar Aabol (Ap)
Area
 • Total 118 km2 (46 sq mi)
 • Land 116 km2 (45 sq mi)
Area rank 375 in Norway
Population (2004)
 • Total 9,985
 • Rank 101 in Norway
 • Density 86/km2 (220/sq mi)
 • Change (10 years) 8.8 %
Demonym Stokkesokning[1]
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
ISO 3166 code NO-0720
Official language form Bokmål
Website www.stokke.kommune.no
Data from Statistics Norway

Stokke is a municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Stokke.

Background

The municipality of Stokke was established on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). Two islands were later transferred from the municipality of Stokke to the neighboring municipality of Nøtterøy: Håøya, (in 1901) and Veierland (in 1964).

General information

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Stokke farm (Old Norse: Stokkar), since the first church was built here. The name is the plural form of stokkr which means "log". (This is probably referring to some hills/ridges near the churchsite.)[2]

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 13 January 1984. The arms are canting since stokker means "sticks" or "logs". The arms show three gold-colored tree trunks on a red background.[3]

See also: Coat-of-arms of Nes and Søndre Land

References

  1. ↑ "Personnemningar til stadnamn i Noreg" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
  2. ↑ Rygh, Oluf (1907). Norske gaardnavne: Jarlsberg og Larviks amt (in Norwegian) (6 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. p. 179.
  3. ↑ Norske Kommunevåpen (1990). "Nye kommunevåbener i Norden". Retrieved 2009-01-14.

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