Country Norway County Sør-Trøndelag Time zone CET (UTC+01:00) Area 222 km² | Region Trøndelag District Fosen ISO 3166 code NO-1611 | |
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Vinje is a former municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the southern part of the present-day municipality of Hemne. The village of Vinjeøra, at the end of the Vinjefjorden, was the municipal center of Vinje. The lake Vasslivatnet lies in the east part of Vinje.
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The name
The municipality of Vinje (originally the annex) was named after the old Vinje farm (Old Norse: Vinjar), since the first church was built there. The name is the plural form of vin which means "meadow" or "pasture".
See also Vinje in Telemark.
History
Originally (since 1838) Vinje was a part of the municipality of Hemne (see formannskapsdistrikt). The annex of Vinje actually belonged to the county of Møre og Romsdal - while the main parish of Hemne belonged to the county of Sør-Trøndelag. But according to the law of Formannskapsdistrikt a parish could no longer be divided between two counties, so the annex of Vinje had to be transferred to the county of Sør-Trøndelag.
On 1 July 1924, the municipality of Vinje was established when it split off from Hemne. Initially, it had a population of 716. On the same date Snillfjord was separated from Hemne as well. On 1 January 1964, the municipalities of Vinje and Hemne as well as the western part of Heim were merged to form a new, enlarged municipality of Hemne. Before the merger, Vinje had a population of 576.