Bruvik is a former municipality in the old

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county,

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. The municipality existed from 1870 until its dissolution in 1964. At the time of its dissolution, the municipality covered on both sides of the Veafjorden, the innermost part of the Sørfjorden, including the southeastern part of the island of

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. The

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of the municipality was the village of Bruvik where Bruvik Church is located.

History

The

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of Haus was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see

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law). On 1 January 1870, the northeastern district of Haus (population: 2,062) was separated from Haus to form the new municipality of Bruvik. During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the

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. On 1 January 1964, the municipality of Bruvik was dissolved and its lands were split up as follows: *the area around the village of Bruvik on the island of

(population: 409) was merged with parts of the municipalities of Haus (population: 2,237), Hamre (population: 1,166), and

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(population: 1,616) to create the new

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. *the rest of Bruvik (population: 5,264), was merged with a parts of the municipalities of Evanger (population: 251) and

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(population: 151) to create the new Vaksdal Municipality.

Name

The municipality (originally the

) is named after the old ''Bruvik'' farm () since the first Bruvik Church was built there. The first element is which means "mountain ridge" or "rim". The last element is the

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of the word which means " bay", "

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" or "

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". Thus it means the bay by the mountain ridge.

Coat of arms

The

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was granted on 14 December 1960. The

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was ''" Azure, a chevron over a cogwheel

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"''. This means the arms have a blue field (background) and the charge is a cogwheel with a chevron ordinary above it. The charge has a

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which means it is commonly colored white, but if it is made out of metal, then silver is used. The design was chosen to symbolize the importance of industry in the municipality. In 1964 when Bruvik municipality was dissolved, the new municipality of Vaksdal (which included the majority of the old Bruvik municipality) chose to continue using the old arms of Bruvik. Vaksdal used the arms until 1990 when new arms were adopted.

Government

During its existence, this municipality was governed by a

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of directly elected representatives. The

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was indirectly elected by a vote of the municipal council.

Mayors

The

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() of Bruvik: *1870–1877: Anders Johannesson Sandvik *1878–1879: Nils Monsson Helle *1880–1885: Nils Haldorsen Faugstad *1886–1891: Anders Olson Herfindal *1892–1893: Anders A. Boge *1894–1907: Nils Larsen Eknes *1908–1911: Martinius Rimmereid *1911–1913: Hans Mathiasson Brørvik *1914–1916: Martinius Rimmereid *1917–1919: Hans Mathiasson Brørvik *1920-1928: John Haldorson Dale *1929–1937: Olaf Rimmereid *1938–1940: Arnfinn Nygaard *1941–1945: Andreas Johannesson Dahle *1945-1945: Arnfinn Nygård *1946–1957: Knut Severin Jakobsen Vik *1958–1959: Steinar Salhus *1959-1959: Bernhard Johannesson Trettenes *1960–1963: Jan Hermann Hermansen

Municipal council

The

of Bruvik was made up of 37 representatives that were elected to four year terms. The

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breakdown of the final municipal council was as follows:

References

External links

Bruvik websiteBruvik Church
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