The Eintveit Bridge ( no, Eintveitbrua) is an unused road bridge in
Etne municipality in
Vestland county,
Norway. 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 List of former municipalities of Norway, 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 Skånevikfjord ...
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
Ã…krafjorden. 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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Bridges to nowhere
Road bridges in Vestland
Etne
1962 establishments in Norway