Tranbjerg J is a town in
Aarhus
Aarhus (, , ; officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus Municipality. It is located on the eastern shore of Jutland in the Kattegat sea and approximately northwest ...
in Denmark. "J" is for
Jutland
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to distinguish this place from a similarly named place on
Zealand
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It is the 1 ...
, and is not used in daily parlance.
History
Tranbjerg was formerly a small rural village but is now a suburb of Aarhus about 10 kilometers south of the city center. Tranbjerg Church is a typical old Danish village church, built in the later part of the 1100s, but with several later adjustments and additions. It is dedicated to
Saint Ursula
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and the eleven thousand handmaidens. In 1737,
King Christian VI
Christian VI (30 November 1699 – 6 August 1746) was King of Denmark and Norway from 1730 to 1746. The eldest surviving son of Frederick IV and Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, he is considered one of Denmark-Norway's more anonymous kings, bu ...
gave charter to the Tranbjerg parish for the public school of Tranbjerg Skole. The school was placed right next to the church, but newer and larger schoolbuildings were erected elsewhere in the 1970s. In 2013, Tranbjerg Skole and Grønløkkeskolen - another local public school - merged to form the Tranbjergskolen public school. Tranbjerg has a relatively extant center known as Center Syd (Center South). It developed in the later part of the 1800s, after Tranbjerg train station was built in 1884. The train station transformed the village to a
railway town
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North America
During the construction of the First transcontinental railroad in the 1860s, temporar ...
, attracting industry and improving the trade options for local farmers. Tranbjerg Kro was built in 1885. The trainsstation was rebuilt and modernised in 1993.
Tranbjerg Brugsforening, a local
cooperative
A cooperative (also known as co-operative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically-control ...
retailer, opened in 1918 as the cooperative idea flourished and took hold in Denmark.
Kvickly Tranbjerg is built on the site of the former Tranbjerg Brugsforening headquarters.
The local sports association of AIA-Tranbjerg was also initiated in 1918 as a local department of the larger AIA (Arbejdernes Idrætsklub, Aarhus). Football has played a prominent role in the history of AIA-Tranbjerg.
In 1970, Tranbjerg became part of
Aarhus Municipality
Aarhus Municipality ( da, Aarhus Kommune), known as Århus Municipality ( da, Århus Kommune) until 2011, is a municipality in Central Denmark Region, on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark.
The municipality covers an area ...
.
Tranbjerg Station Aarhus 4.jpg, Tranbjerg train station
TRanbjerg sø fra vest.jpg, Tranbjerg lake
Sources
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* Jens Mikkelsen: "''Tranbjerg - før og nu: en uhøjtidelig beretning om folk og fæ gennem tiderne i - og omkring Tranbjerg''", Tranbjergs Historie (1984)
* Jens Mikkelsen og Niels Johansen: "
Tranbjerg - før og nu'", Eget Forlag (1984)
References
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Neighborhoods of Aarhus
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