Tranebjerg

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The parish of Tranebjerg.

Tranebjerg is a parish and small town, situated at the centre of the South Island of Samsø in Denmark. It is the largest town on Samsø, with a population of 827 (1 January 2013) and also the municipal seat of the small Samsø Municipality.[1]

Tranebjerg is an old town, with a big village church from the 1300s and was once home to Brattingsborg Castle, a royal castle that burned down in the year 1289. Of the more modern facilities the town is home to a tourist office and an Ecomuseum. At the Ecomuseum, restored old buildings like an active oldfashioned smallholding, a skipper-farmhouse, a blacksmith and a grainmill amongst others, exposes the connection between Samsø's landscape, culture and inhabitants through the ages which includes an exhibition of the islands Stone Age past, traced to about 9.000 BC.

References

  1. BEF44 Population 1st January, by urban areas, database from Statistics Denmark

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Coordinates: 55°50′N 10°36′E / 55.833°N 10.600°E / 55.833; 10.600

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