The Eintveit Bridge ( no, Eintveitbrua) is an unused road bridge in

Etne Etne is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sunnhordland, although it is also sometimes considered to be part of the district of Haugaland. The administrative centre of the municipality is th ...

municipality in

Vestland Vestland is a county in Norway established on 1 January 2020. The county is located in Western Norway and it is centred around the city of Bergen, Norway's second largest city. The administrative centre of the county is the city of Bergen, whe ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. Access roads were never built to it, and the bridge has stood secluded and without traffic since it was erected. The bridge of concrete is approximately long and has two lanes. It goes over the river Eintveitelva between the now-abandoned small farms of Eintveit and Bjelland. In 1956 the area was a part of

Skånevik Skånevik is a former municipality in the old Hordaland county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1965. It included the land surrounding both sides of the Skånevikfjorden and its smaller branches: the Åkraf ...

municipality (later merging with Etne municipality), and in that year the municipal council allocated money to build a bridge across the Eintveitelva with access roads, as part of a larger road project that would follow the coastline along the northern side of the

Åkrafjorden Åkrafjorden is a fjord in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the municipalities of Etne and Kvinnherad. The long fjord reaches a maximum depth of . The fjord flows from the southern part of the Folgefonna National Park, draining the ...

. The bridge would have been so broad that buses could drive at speeds of up to on it. Construction of the bridge began in 1958 and the bridge was completed in 1962. The road along the fjord was never built, and the bridge was never used by anyone other than random hikers. Since the road was not built, all of the small farms along that area of the fjord eventually became abandoned. The bridge falls into the "

bridge to nowhere A bridge to nowhere is a bridge where one or both ends are broken, incomplete, or unconnected to any roads. If it is an overpass or an interchange, the term overpass to nowhere or interchange to nowhere may be used respectively. There are f ...

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{{authority control Bridges to nowhere Road bridges in Vestland Etne 1962 establishments in Norway