Tysnes

Tysnes is an island municipality in Hordaland. Tysnes has a complete area of 255 km². The populace is approx. 2800. Tysnes have become its very own municipality in 1838. With the exception of a smaller area at the mainland that changed into transferred to Kvinnherad in 1907, the municipality has not modified its borders. In the Middle Ages Olavsgildet become held at Onarheim in Tysnes. It became a fraternity that collected people from huge elements of Sunnhordland and Hardanger.

After this, Olavsgildet determined a seal two crossed axes with a crown over and this seal turned into later the image of Hordaland county municipality's weapon. Sparrows over the axes in Tysnes' mark signify that Tysnes stored the Olav guild. Tysnes municipality has no longer permitted municipal weapons, however the municipality has used the mark with crossed axes with sparrow over from the middle of the seventies. The municipality's millennium is the Olavsgildet at Onarheim. Asplan Viak has created a version and a mission description for the layout of the region, but the assignment has no longer been applied due to the economic scenario in the municipality. The millennium tree is planted via the colleges within the municipality and through Arbakka Handelsstad.