Bru, Sogn og Fjordane


Bru is a former municipality in the old Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1923 until 1964 and it included several islands including Svanøya, Askrova, and Stavøyaas well as parts of the mainland including the Solheimsdalen valley, east of the village of Norddalsfjord. It is now part of the present-day Kinn Municipality which is in Vestland county in the traditional district of Sunnfjord. The administrative center of Bru was the village of Stavang.

Name

The name of the municipality comes from the old name for the island Brulandet, where the first church was located. The church site was moved off the island to the mainland village of Stavang in 1872. The Old Norse name for the church was Brúa, which is identical with the word for "bridge".

History

The parish of Bru was established as a municipality on 1 January 1923 when the large municipality of Kinn was divided into three: Kinn in the west, Bru in the centre, and Eikefjord in the east.
During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1964, Bru municipality ceased to exist and its lands were divided.

Municipal council

The municipal council of Bru was made up of 17 representatives that were elected to four year terms. The party breakdown of the final municipal council was as follows: