The municipality of
Skaare (later, the spelling was changed to
Skåre) was created on 1 November 1881 when it was split off from the large
Torvastad Municipality. The new municipality had a population of 1,665. On 1 January 1911, a part of Skåre Municipality (population: 3,847) bordering the neighboring town of
Haugesund was transferred to Haugesund. On 1 January 1958, the rest of Skåre Municipality (population: 6,772) was merged with the town of Haugesund, creating a much larger
Haugesund Municipality.
Name The municipality (originally the
parish) is named after the old
Skara farm () since the first
Skåre Church was built there. The name likes derives from the word which means "a rift in a rock". On 21 December 1917, a
royal resolution enacted the
1917 Norwegian language reforms. Prior to this change, the name was spelled
Skaare with the
digraph "
aa", and after this reform, the name was spelled
Skåre, using the letter
å instead.
Churches The
Church of Norway had one parish () within Skåre Municipality. At the time of the municipal dissolution, it was part of the Haugesund
prestegjeld and the
Karmsund prosti (
deanery) in the
Diocese of Stavanger. ==Geography==