Editing Stordal Municipality (section)

==General information==
[[File:Auskjeret.jpg|thumb|left|View of the Stordal landscape]]
[[File:Overøystolen.jpg|thumb|left|View of the Stordal landscape]]
[[File:Stordal-gamlekyrkje-HH.jpg|thumb|left|View of the [[Old Stordal Church]]]]
The parish of Stordal was established as a municipality on 1 January 1892 when the large [[Stranda Municipality]] was divided into two parts. The northwestern part became the new Stordal Municipality (population: 850) and the southwestern part continued as a much smaller [[Stranda Municipality]] (population: 1,459).<ref name="Dag">{{Cite web |last=Jukvam |first=Dag |year=1999 |title=Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen |url=http://www.ssb.no/emner/00/90/rapp_9913/rapp_9913.pdf |publisher=[[Statistics Norway|Statistisk sentralbyrå]] |language=no |isbn=9788253746845}}</ref>

During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the [[Schei Committee]]. On 1 January 1965, [[Ørskog Municipality]] (population: 1,664), [[Skodje Municipality]] (population: 2,048), and Stordal Municipality (population: 1,052) were merged to form a new, larger [[Ørskog Municipality]]. The merger, however, was short-lived, and on 1 January 1977 it was reversed and the three municipalities were once again separated.<ref name="Dag" />

On 1 January 2020, Stordal Municipality (population: 972) and [[Norddal Municipality]] (population: 1,670) were merged into the new [[Fjord Municipality]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Siverstøl |first=Anette |date=2017-08-09 |title=Stordal og Norddal blir truleg Fjord kommune |url=http://www.smp.no/nyheter/2017/08/09/Stordal-og-Norddal-blir-truleg-Fjord-kommune-15132183.ece |access-date=2017-10-19 |language=Norwegian |newspaper=Sunnmørsposten}}</ref>

===Name===
The municipality (originally the [[prestegjeld|parish]]) is named after the local Stordalen valley ({{langx|non|Stóladalr}}). The first element is the plural [[genitive case]] of {{wikt-lang|non|stóll}} which means "[[chair]]" or "[[throne]]". The may be because two mountains located around the valley have the name ''Stolen'' (meaning "the chair"). The last element is {{wikt-lang|non|dalr}} which means "[[valley]]" or "dale".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rygh |first=Oluf |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=691LAQAAIAAJ |title=Norske gaardnavne: Romsdals amt |date=1908 |publisher=W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri |edition=13 |location=Kristiania, Norge |page=134 |language=no |authorlink=Oluf Rygh}}</ref> Historically, the name of the municipality was spelled ''Stordalen''. On 3 November 1917, a [[royal decree|royal resolution]] changed the spelling of the name of the municipality to ''Stordal'', removing the [[Definite article|definite form]] ending ''-en''.<ref>{{Cite journal |year=1917 |title=Norsk Lovtidende. 2den Afdeling. 1917. Samling af Love, Resolutioner m.m |url=https://www.nb.no/items/URN:NBN:no-nb_digitidsskrift_2015102381014_001 |journal=[[Norsk Lovtidend]] |language=no |location=Kristiania, Norge |publisher=Grøndahl og Søns Boktrykkeri |pages=1057-1065}}</ref>

===Coat of arms===
The [[coat of arms]] was granted on 30 August 1991 and they were in use until the municipality was dissolved on 1 January 2020. The official [[blazon]] is ''"[[Azure (heraldry)|Azure]], a [[Pale (heraldry)|pale]] [[Line (heraldry)|dovetailed]] [[Or (heraldry)|Or]]"'' ({{langx|no|På blå grunn ein gull stolpe laga med duestjertsnitt}}). This means the arms have a blue [[field (heraldry)|field]] (background) and the [[charge (heraldry)|charge]] is a [[Pale (heraldry)|pale]] with [[Line (heraldry)|dovetailed]] sides. The charge has a [[tincture (heraldry)|tincture]] of [[Or (heraldry)|Or]] which means it is commonly colored yellow, but if it is made out of metal, then gold is used. The pale symbolises the [[forestry]] and furniture manufacturing in the municipality, which traditionally uses a [[Dovetail joint|dovetail]] system to join two pieces of wood. The same symbol also indicates the strong community feeling in the villages. The arms were designed by Jarle Skuseth. The municipal flag has the same design as the coat of arms.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Civic heraldry of Norway - Norske Kommunevåpen |url=https://www.heraldry-wiki.com/heraldrywiki/index.php?title=Stordal |access-date=2023-04-05 |publisher=Heraldry of the World}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Stordal, Møre og Romsdal |url=https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/no-15-26.html |access-date=2023-04-05 |website=Flags of the World}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=1991-08-30 |title=Godkjenning av våpen og flagg |url=https://lovdata.no/dokument/LFO/forskrift/1991-08-30-594 |access-date=2023-04-05 |website=Lovdata.no |publisher=Norges kommunal- og arbeidsdepartementet |language=no}}</ref> 

===Churches===
The [[Church of Norway]] had one parish with one church, within Stordal Municipality. It also included the former church, ''Rosekyrkja'', which was a museum. It was part of the [[Austre Sunnmøre prosti]] ([[deanery]]) in the [[Diocese of Møre]].

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+ style="font-size:medium"|'''''Churches in Stordal'''''
!Parish ({{lang|no|sokn}})!!Church name!!Location of the church!!Year built
|-
|rowspan="2"|Stordal||[[Stordal Church]]||[[Stordal (village)|Stordal]]||1907
|-
|[[Old Stordal Church]]<br />{{lang|no|(Rosekyrkja)}}*||[[Stordal (village)|Stordal]]||1789
|-
|colspan="4"|<small>''*The Rosekyrkja has been a museum church since 1908.''</small>
|}