Dalabyggð

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The municipality is located in the west of Iceland Dalabyggð in the region Vesturland.

On 1 January 2009 the municipality had 714 inhabitants, of whom 249 lived in the largest settlement Búðardalur.

Geography

The northern part of the municipality is the Klofningsnes Peninsula, which borders the north to the south and to the Breiðafjörður Hvammsfjörður. The north side of the peninsula is called Skarðsströnd, the southwest side Fellsströnd. South of Hvammsfjörður is the eastern part of the Snæfellsnes peninsula. North of the village lies Reykhólahreppur and Strandabyggð, east Hunathing vestra, Borgarbyggð south, southwest Eyja -og Miklaholtshreppur and Helgafellssveit.

The largest lake in the municipality is the Haukadalsvatn.

Places

Búðardalur

The place is located on Búðardalur Hvammsfjörður on the northeastern end of the Snæfellsnes peninsula. Búðardalur is a small service center for the residents of the area. The Leifsbud the harbor houses a museum to Leif Eiriksson.

Haukadalur

The valley Haukadalur is located a few kilometers south-east of Búðardalur. It stretches between the valleys Miðdalur and Laxárdalur. In the valley an open-air museum is Erik the Red ( Eiríksstaðir ).

Ólafsdalur í Dölum

In the inner valley of the Gilsfjörður is the Ólafsdalur and an eponymous farm, which is now abandoned.

There, founded in 1880 Torfi Bjarnason ( 1838-1915 ) Iceland's agricultural school. By 1907, this private school existed, then the state took over this task. Torfi Bjarnason was very innovative as a farmer and lived a better working methods and machines.

The school building is now a historical monument, but serves as a school camp at the Gymnasium Menntaskólinn við Sound.

Before that, there is a sculpture from 1955 to the memory of Torfi Bjarnason and his wife Guðlaug Zakaríasdóttir.

Other historically significant places

Another places of historical significance in the community manors Hvammur í Dölum and Skarð be mentioned that harbored each rich landlords and influential politicians and scientists and their place of birth were.

History

A large village Dalabyggð was taken on June 11, 1994 by the merger of six communities: rural community Suðurdalir ( Isl Suðurdalahreppur ) turn on 1 January 1992 formed from the rural communities Hörðudalur ( Hörðudalshreppur ) and Miðdalir ( Miðdalahreppur ), rural community Haukadalur ( Isl Haukadalshreppur ), rural community Laxárdalur ( Isl Laxárdalshreppur ), rural community Hvammur ( Isl Hvammshreppur ), rural community Fellsströnd ( Isl Fellsstrandarhreppur ) with several incorporated on July 30, 1986 Country community Klofningur ( Klofningshreppur ), rural community Skarð ( Isl Skarðshreppur ).

On 1 January 1998 also the rural community Skógarströnd ( Skógarstrandarhreppur ) was incorporated.

On 12 June 2006, the rural community Saurbær ( Saurbæjarhreppur ) was incorporated. It included the eastern part of Skarðsströnd and the south bank of the Gilsfjörður and increased Hafratindur on 923 meters. In 2005 she was one of 77 residents to 257 km ². The population decline in 1981-2005 was 42%. The parish seat was Staðarhólskirkja.

Population Development

The population decline in 1981-2010 was 43 %.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241), writer and politician, born in Hvammur í Dölum
• Árni Magnússon (1663-1730), linguist and most important manuscript collectors
• Jóhannes úr Kötlum (1899-1972), writer, born in Goddastaðir