Rennebu

Infobox_Kommune
name=Rennebu
idnumber=1635
county=Sør-Trøndelag
landscape=Gauldal
capital=Berkåk
governor=Bjørn Rogstad (H)
governor_as_of=2005
arearank=114
area=948
arealand=925
areapercent=0.29
population_as_of=2004
populationrank=294
population=2,654
populationpercent=0.06
populationdensity=3
populationincrease=-7.6
language=Neutral
lat_deg=62| lat_min=49| lat_sec=51| lon_deg=9| lon_min=52| lon_sec=28
utm_zone=32V| utm_northing=6967059 |utm_easting=0544548| geo_cat=adm2nd




munwebpage=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).

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 "bú" n 'rural district'.

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.