Finnøy

Finnøy

Infobox Kommune
name = Finnøy
idnumber = 1141
county = Rogaland
landscape = Ryfylke
capital = Judaberg
demonym = Finnøying
language = Nynorsk


munwebpage = www.finnoy.kommune.no
governor = Kjell Nes (KrF)
governor_as_of = 2008
arearank = 382
area = 104
arealand = 103
areapercent = 0.03
population_as_of = 2004
populationrank = 285
population = 2,809
populationpercent = 0.06
populationdensity = 27
populationincrease = 0.0
lat_deg = 59 | lat_min = 9 | lat_sec = 53 | lon_deg = 5 | lon_min = 49 | lon_sec = 46
utm_zone = 32V | utm_northing = 6562718 | utm_easting = 0318773 | geo_cat = adm2nd

Finnøy is a municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is an island community located in Boknafjorden, 13 nautical miles (24 km) north of Stavanger.

The parish of "Finnø" was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). Sjernarøy was merged with Finnøy on 1 January 1965.

Finnøy is an agricultural community dominated by dairy, meat, poultry, and fish farming products, with strong horticultural traditions, mainly greenhouse production of tomatoes, and some tourism.

General information

Name

The municipality is named after the island of Finnøy (Old Norse: "Finnøy"). The meaning of the first element is unknown and the last element is "øy" which means "island". Before 1918, the name was written "Finnø".

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 23 September 1983. Despite its recent adoption, it has old roots. The arms show a wing, derived from the arms of the Hestbø family (which included Ogmund Finnsson), one of the mightiest families in the area in the 14th century. They had their stronghold on their Hesby estate in the present municipality. [cite web|url=http://www.ngw.nl/int/nor/f/finnoy.htm|author=Norske Kommunevåpen|date=1990|title=Nye kommunevåbener i Norden|accessdaymonth=8 October|accessyear=2008]

History

Finnøy was at the top of its power in the middle of the fourteenth century when the King's representative Ogmund Finnsson had his seat at Hesby on the west side of the island of Finnøy. A medieval stone church, dating from the thirteenth century, still stands at Hesby.

It is often claimed that the Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel (1802-1829) was born in Finnøy, since his father Søren Georg acted as rector there. Recent studies indicates, however, that he was born in Nedstrand, a nearby parish. However, he was raised at Finnøy.

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