Rennebu

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Rennebu kommune
—  Municipality  —
Coat of arms of Rennebu kommune
Coat of arms
Official logo of Rennebu kommune
Sør-Trøndelag within
Norway
Rennebu within Sør-Trøndelag
Rennebu within Sør-Trøndelag
Coordinates: 62°49′51″N 9°52′28″E / 62.83083, 9.87444
Country Norway
County Sør-Trøndelag
District Gauldal
Municipality ID NO-1635
Administrative centre Berkåk
Government
 - Mayor (2005) Bjørn Rogstad (H)
Area (Nr. 114 in Norway)
 - Total 948 km² (366 sq mi)
 - Land 925 km² (357.1 sq mi)
Population (2004)
 - Total 2,654
 - Density 3/km² (7.8/sq mi)
 - Change (10 years) -7.6 %
 - Rank in Norway 294
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 - Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Official language form Neutral
Data from Statistics Norway
Website: www.rennebu.kommune.no

Rennebu is a municipality in the county of Sør-Trøndelag, Norway.

Rennebu was separated from Meldal in 1839. The parish of Innset was transferred from Kvikne (and Hedmark county) to Rennebu (and Sør-Trøndelag county) January 1, 1966.

The administrative centre of the municipality is Berkåk (by E6).

[edit] The name

The Old Norse form of the name was Rennabú. The first element is, maybe, the plural genitive case of renna f 'journey, march; road'. (Two old important roads cross the municipality: One follows the river Orkla from Trondheimsfjord to Østerdalen - another, from Gudbrandsdalen and Oppdal to Gauldalen and Trondheim, crosses the valley at Berkåk.) The last element is n 'rural district'.

[edit] Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times (1982). The figure is meant to represent the old church of Rennebu from 1669 - which is shaped like an Y.