Vinje is a former municipality in Sør-Trøndelag

Sør-Trøndelag

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 county, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. It is located in the southern part of the present-day municipality of Hemne

Hemne

Hemne is a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Fosen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Kyrksæterøra. Other villages include Heim, Hellandsjøen, Holla, and Vinjeøra...

. The village of Vinjeøra

Vinjeøra

Vinjeøra is a village in the municipality of Hemne in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The village lies along the highway at the end of the Vinjefjorden, about south of the municipal center of Kyrksæterøra...

, at the end of the Vinjefjorden

Vinjefjorden

The Vinjefjorden is a fjord in Norway. It begins at Vinjeøra in the municipality of Hemne and flows west through the municipalities of Aure, Halsa, Tingvoll, and Kristiansund . At its end, it flows into the Talsjøen and Freifjorden. The Halsafjord, Skålvikfjorden, and Valsøyfjorden branch off...

, was the municipal center of Vinje. The lake Vasslivatnet

Vasslivatnet

Vasslivatnet is a lake in the municipality of Hemne in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The lake lies along the highway , about east of Vinjeøra. The lake is a man-made lake along the river Søo. There is a dam on the west end that is part of a hydropower plant....

 lies in the east part of Vinje.

History

Originally (since 1838) Vinje was a part of the municipality of Hemne

Hemne

Hemne is a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Fosen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Kyrksæterøra. Other villages include Heim, Hellandsjøen, Holla, and Vinjeøra...

 (see formannskapsdistrikt

Formannskapsdistrikt

Formannskapsdistrikt was the name for a Norwegian local self-government districts put into force in 1838. This system of municipality was created in a bill approved by the Storting and signed into law by King Carl Johan on 14 January 1837...

). 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

Snillfjord

Snillfjord is a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Fosen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Krokstadøra. Other villages in Snillfjord include Ytre Snillfjord, Hemnskjela, and Vutudal....

 was separated from Hemne as well. On 1 January 1964, the municipalities of Vinje and Hemne as well as the western part of Heim

Heim, Norway

Heim is a village and former municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The municipality included most of the area around the Hemnefjord. The village of Heim is located in the present-day municipality of Hemne, just east of Hellandsjøen...

were merged together to form a new, enlarged municipality of Hemne. Before the merger, Vinje had a population of 576.