Oddernes Municipality

Oddernes Municipality Oddernes herred
Former municipality
Oddernæs herred  (historic name)
Vest-Agder within Norway
Oddernes within Vest-Agder
Coordinates: 58.1597°N 08.0134°E / 58.1597; 08.0134
Country	Norway
County	Vest-Agder
District	Sørlandet
Established	1 Jan 1838
• Created as	Formannskapsdistrikt
Disestablished	1 Jan 1965
• Succeeded by	Kristiansand Municipality
Administrative centre	Lund
Government
• Mayor (1958–1964)	Syvert Messel (V)
Area  (upon dissolution)
• Total	102.9 km2 (39.7 sq mi)
• Rank	#416 in Norway
Highest elevation	284.6 m (934 ft)
Population  (1964)
• Total	17,468
• Rank	#31 in Norway
• Density	169.8/km2 (440/sq mi)
• Change (10 years)	+74%
Official language
• Norwegian form	Neutral
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	NO-1012
Data from Statistics Norway

Oddernes is a former municipality in the old Vest-Agder county, Norway. The 102.9-square-kilometre (39.7 sq mi) municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1965. The area is now part of Kristiansand Municipality in Agder county. Lund on the east side of the river Otra near where Lund Church is located. The old municipality encircled the town of Kristiansand, and it included the villages such as Flekkerøy, Vågsbygd, Slettheia, Strai, Mosby, and Justvik. Today, the town of Kristiansand has a borough named Oddernes, but it has very different boundaries than the old municipality had.

Prior to its dissolution in 1965, the 102.9-square-kilometre (39.7 sq mi) municipality was the 416th largest by area out of the 525 municipalities in Norway. Oddernes Municipality was the 31st most populous municipality in Norway with a population of about 17,468. The municipality's population density was 169.8 inhabitants per square kilometre (440/sq mi) and its population had increased by 74% over the previous 10-year period.