Laksevåg (municipality)

Laksevåg is a former municipality in the old Hordaland county in Norway. The municipality was located on the western part of the Bergen Peninsula. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Loddefjord. The municipality, which existed from 1918 until 1972, was a located a short distance west of the city of Bergen, and today it makes up the borough of Laksevåg which is part of the city of Bergen in Bergen Municipality which is now in Vestland county. The municipality was located along the Byfjorden, north of the Grimstadfjorden, and west of the Fyllingsdalen valley. The municipality of Laksevåg was established on 1 July 1918 when it was separated from the municipality of Askøy. Initially, the municipality had 6,957 residents. On 1 July 1921, the village area of Gyldenpris (population: 1,734) was transferred from Laksevåg to the growing city of Bergen, located to the east. On 1 January 1972, the city of Bergen was expanded and the four surrounding municipalities of Laksevåg (population: 24,672), Arna, Fana, and Åsane, were all merged with Bergen to form one large urban municipality with over 200,000 residents. The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Laksevåg farm (Laxavágr) since the first Laksevåg Church was built there. The first element is the plural genitive case of the word lax which means "salmon". The last element is vágr which means "inlet" or "bay". Thus, the name means "salmon bay". Prior to the 1917 Norwegian language reform law, the name was spelled with the digraph "aa", and after this reform, the letter å was used instead. During its existence, this municipality was governed by a municipal council of directly elected representatives. The mayor was indirectly elected by a vote of the municipal council. The mayors (ordførar) of Laksevåg: 1919–1920: A. Andersen 1920–1922: Ludvig Sæhoug 1923–1925: D.M. Davidsen 1926–1928: Bernhard Christensen 1929–1931: Hermann Havre 1932–1934: Bernhard Christensen 1935–1936: B.