Tranås Municipality (''Tranås kommun'') is a

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Jönköping County Jönköping County ( sv, Jönköpings län) is a county or '' län'' in southern Sweden. It borders the counties of Halland, Västra Götaland, Östergötland, Kalmar and Kronoberg. The total county population was 356,291 inhabitants in Sept ...

, southern

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, where the town

Tranås Tranås () is a locality and the seat of Tranås Municipality, Jönköping County, Sweden with 14,197 inhabitants in 2010. Overview It is close to the lake Sommen in the north of Småland. Its main commercial center is located along the main stree ...

is seat. The original entity ''Tranås'' was detached from the rural municipality ''Säby'' as a market town (''

köping ''Köping'' was a Swedish denomination for a market town since the Middle Ages, derived from the Old Norse word ''kaupang''. The designation was officially abolished with the municipal reform of 1971, when Sweden was subdivided into the Munici ...

'') in 1882 and made a

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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

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industry, but there is almost no such activity today.

Localities

There are 3

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s (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.

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. 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.

Sports

*Tranås FF is the city's football team. *Tranås Bois have played in

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allsvenskan Allsvenskan (; en, the All-Swedish, also known as Fotbollsallsvenskan, en, the Football All-Swedish) is a Swedish professional league for men's association football clubs. It was founded in 1924 and is the top tier of the Swedish football lea ...

. *Tranås AIF is the city's pride when it comes to

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. 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 Småland () is a historical province () in southern Sweden. Småland borders Blekinge, Scania, Halland, Västergötland, Östergötland and the island Öland in the Baltic Sea. The name Småland literally means ''Small Lands''. The Latinized fo ...

and

Östergötland Östergötland (; English exonym: East Gothland) is one of the traditional provinces of Sweden (''landskap'' in Swedish) in the south of Sweden. It borders Småland, Västergötland, Närke, Södermanland and the Baltic Sea. In older English li ...

Media

News magazines: *''Tranås-Posten'' *''Tranås Tidning''

Notable people

Lennart Hyland Otto Lennart Hyland (24 September 1919 – 15 March 1993), was a Swedish TV-show host and journalist and one of the most popular and renowned TV personalities in the history of Swedish television. His biggest success as an entertainer was unquestio ...

, renowned

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and host for several

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- and TV-shows, born in Tranås city. *

Ove Fundin Ove Fundin (born 23 May 1933) is a Swedish former professional motorcycle speedway rider. He competed in the Speedway World Championships from 1951 to 1970. Fundin is notable for winning the Speedway World Champ ...

, worldchampion in

speedway Speedway may refer to: Racing Race tracks *Edmonton International Speedway, also known as Speedway Park, a former motor raceway in Edmonton, Alberta *Indianapolis Motor Speedway, a motor raceway in Speedway, Indiana Types of races and race cours ...

, also born in Tranås city. *

Johanna Westman Johanna Cecilia Westman (born 11 August 1969 in Tranås Municipality, Tranås, Sweden) is a Swedish Children's literature, children's book author and television host. She presented the 3rd semifinal of Melodifestivalen 2005. Bibliography Childr ...

, host on SVT, author of

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- and

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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 The National Hockey League (NHL; french: Ligue nationale de hockey—LNH, ) is a professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 32 teams—25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. It is considered to be the top ranked professional ...

with

Florida Panthers The Florida Panthers are a professional ice hockey team based in the Miami metropolitan area. They compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Atlantic Division (NHL), Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference (NHL), Eastern ...

. *David Lingmerth, Professional Golfer on the PGA Tour

References

Statistics Sweden

External links

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