Habo Municipality

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This article is about the Habo Municipality in Sweden. For the youth movement, see Habonim Dror.

This page deals with both Habo Municipality and the urban area (tätort) Habo

**Habo Municipality (*Kommun*)**
Jönköping County in Sweden; Habo in the north-western part Map outlining municipalities of Sweden	Coat of arms
	Municipal facts
	Seat	Habo
	57° 55´ N 14° 05´ E
	County	Jönköping County
	Province	Västergötland
	Area Rank	329 km² 221st of 290
	Population Rank (2005)	9,758 x of 290
	Density	30/km²

Habo Municipality is a municipality in Jönköping County, in southern Sweden where the town of Habo (pop. 6,000) is seat.

1 History
2 Geography
3 Schools
4 Sports
5 Sights
6 See also
7 References
8 External links

[edit] History

Habo is noted for a wooden church with a design from 1723. It is shaped like a cathedral, even though it is made of wood; while the interior is covered with decorative paintings illustratating themes from Martin Luther's catechism. The interiors were featured in 2002 Christmas collection from the Post Office of "Romantic Church Buildings". ^[1]

The municipality is one of the newly created ones created with the municipal reform of the 1970s (See Municipalities of Sweden), before that it was just a small community with a few towns; in 1907 the then existing parish of Habo (where it belonged to the diocese of Skara) had for instance only 2,742 inhabitants. ^[2]

[edit] Geography

Things to do in the municipality include activities related to the lake Vättern, such as fishing, bathing and hiking. It offers plenty of nature and outdoor activities. Just outiside the seat is a forest of beech woods planted by count Per Brahe the younger in the 17th century and lovely for recreational walks. And within the municipality two areas have been deemed important enough to be nature reserves: Fiskebäck has a moist ground where hazel and oak have claimed most of the space in competition with aspen, bird cherry, birch, sallow, hawthorn, beech and ash; while Hökensås is distinghuished by a varied terrain of valleys and slopes with some 50 tarns and small lakes and a fauna of great variety.

[edit] Schools

Bränningeskolan 1975-
Fagerhults Skola 1910-
Gröne Vägens Skola 1931-
Habo Centralskola 1953-1998 (Divided in 1998. Grades F-5 became Hagenskolan, grades 6-9 became Hagabodaskolan)
Hagenskolan 1998-
Hagabodaskolan 1998-
Kråkerydsskolan 1976-
Malmgårdsskolan 1996-

[edit] Sports

BIF Fagerhult, formed 1949. Floorball late 1980s-
Habo Handboll, formed 1990. Team handball 1990-
Habo IF, formed April 26 1926. Athletics 1926-, football 1926- and Bandy 1926-1998
Habo Wolley 87, formed 1987. Volleyball
Hagaboda SK, formed 1989. Floorball
Yellow Obah, formed 1995. Volleyball (Farm team to Habo Wolley 87)

[edit] Sights

Habo church interior

[edit] See also

Because diacritics are often dropped on the English oriented Internet, Habo is sometimes confused with Håbo Municipality, located in the province of Uppland (near Stockholm). (The address http://www.habo.se has for instance come to be a combined page used by both municipalities.)