Tranås Municipality

Tranås Municipality (Tranås kommun) is a municipality in Jönköping County, southern Sweden, where the town Tranås is seat.

The original entity Tranås was detached from the rural municipality Säby as a market town (köping) in 1882 and made a city in 1919. The reunification took place in 1951 when Säby was made a part of Tranås. In 1967 Linderås was amalgamated with the City of Tranås, which in 1971 was made a municipality of unitary type when all differences between rural and urban municipalities were abolished.

Tranås was once well known for its fur industry, but there is almost no such activity today.

Localities

There are 3 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Tranås Municipality.

In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Tranås Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.^[3]

In total there were 18,854 residents, including 14,204 Swedish citizens of voting age.^[3] 47.1% voted for the left coalition and 51.8% for the right coalition.

Culture

Music plays an important part of everyday life in Tranås. There are bands such as Rövsvett, El Scorschos, The Trick and Feel Flows. Tranås as a town still holds itself in high esteem since winning the annual national award as "music municipal of the year", despite the politicians trying their best to shut down important meeting places like Sobelhuset and be very anti-rock band in their stance.^{[citation needed]}

Nowadays the best known band from Tranås is The Bombdolls, a punk rock band that regularly tours in Sweden and Germany.

Tranås musikkår, founded in 1934, is a symphonic wind orchestra with about 50 members between 15 and 90 years old.^[4]

Sports

Tranås FF is the city's football team.
Tranås Bois have played in bandy allsvenskan.
Tranås AIF is the city's pride when it comes to ice hockey. The team currently resides in Division one.
Tranås Baseboll is the city's pride when it comes to baseball.
Tranås Golfklubb is the city's Golf Club with a well known course.

Education

Tranås Utbildningscentrum, Community Centre of Higher Education and Professional Skills.
Holavedsskolan, gymnasium. The name originates from Holaveden, the forest which acts like a border between Småland and Östergötland.

Media

News magazines:

Tranås-Posten
Tranås Tidning

Notable people

Lennart Hyland, renowned sports commentator and host for several radio- and TV-shows, born in Tranås city.
Ove Fundin, worldchampion in speedway, also born in Tranås city.
Johanna Westman, host on SVT, author of cook- and children's books.
Richard Carlsohn, musical theatre performer.
Magnus Svensson, by far the best hockey player from Tranås, has played hundreds of times in Sweden's national team, Tre Kronor, and was the best goal scorer in World Cup 1994. Also won Olympic gold medal 1994. Played most of his career in Leksands IF but also made a couple of seasons in the NHL with Florida Panthers.
David Lingmerth, professional golfer on the PGA Tour.

References

Statistics Sweden

^ "Statistiska centralbyrån, Kommunarealer den 1 januari 2014" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 2014-01-01. Archived from the original (Microsoft Excel) on 2016-09-27. Retrieved 2014-04-18.
^ "Folkmängd och befolkningsförändringar - Kvartal 4, 2023" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. February 22, 2024. Retrieved February 22, 2024.
^ a b c "Valresultat 2022 för Tranås i riksdagsvalet" (in Swedish). SVT. 11 September 2022. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
^ "Välkommen till Tranås Musikkår". www.tranasmusikkar.se (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 2007-12-09. Retrieved 26 May 2023.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tranås Municipality.

Tranås Municipality - Official site
Satellite image of Tranås from Google Maps
Coat of arms