Habo Municipality

:"This article is about Habo Municipality in Sweden, not to be confused with Håbo Municipality in Sweden. For the youth movement, see Habonim Dror.Infobox_Kommun2
fullname=Habo kommun


county=Jönköping County
province=Västergötland
capital=Habo


arearank=192nd
area=463.91
arealand=329.53
populationrank=212th
population=10,122
densityrank=135th
populationdensity=30.7
website=http://www.habokommun.se/
footnotes=Area and population as of December 31, 2006

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

The present municipality was formed in 1974 when a part of the dissolved rural municipality of "Fågelsås" was amalgamated with "old" Habo. It was transferred from the dissolved Skaraborg County to Jönköping County in 1998.

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 distinguished by a varied terrain of valleys and slopes with some 50 tarns and small lakes and a fauna of great variety.

Localities

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

chools

*"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-

ports

*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)

Sights

ee 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.)

References

* Unless otherwise stated, the material is found on the official webpage
* 1: Incorporated from
* 2: [http://runeberg.org/nfbj/0519.html article Habo] from Nordisk Familjebok (1909)
* [http://www.scb.se Statistics Sweden]

External links

* [http://www.habokommun.se/ Habo Municipality] - Official site