Bronnoysund is a town, and former municipality, in Nordland county, Norway.
Bronnoysund was separated from Bronnoy as a town (ladestad), and municipality of its own, in 1923. It was again merged with Bronnoy January 1, 1964 - and it then lost its status as a town.
Today it has approximately 5,000 inhabitants, and it is the administrative and commercial centre of the municipality of Bronnoy. A new township was declared in 2000. Bronnoysund has daily visits by the Hurtigruten (Coastal Express), northbound at night and southbound in the afternoon. It has its own airport, Bronnoysund lufthavn (BNN), and a direct eastbound connection to the E6 highway. It is best known in Norway as the location of the Bronnoysund Register Centre, also known as Bronnoysundregistrene. Kredittinform and Dunn & Bradstreet are the main commercial spin-offs of this register, in which the new e-government portal "ALTINN" is the newest addition.
During the viking era, Torgar, by the foot of the legendary mountain Torghatten, was a nationally powerful chieftain seat and an important commercial center along the coast. The original inhabitants were wiped out in an outright massacre by Duke Skule and his men in the Norwegian civil wars that raged around 1240, in the high medieval era of Norway.
The region was repopulated by immigrants from southern Norway, Trondelag and Sweden, which could explain the unique and somewhat odd dialect. In recent years, Brønnøysund has managed to create a certain economic growth. Fjord Seafood originated here, as well as the largest limestone mine in Northern Europe and the highest foodstuff production in Northern Norway are examples of entrepreneurship and well-run economy in this somewhat prosperous region. Additionally, there is a local heliport and an airport, but oddly the authorities had removed the direct flight to the national capital, Oslo, which is causing serious delays to Norwegian flows of documentation, due to one of Europe's least effective postal services.
Modern agriculture, hydroponics, the large TTS transport corporation, wood-processing and tourism are the main driving industries.
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