Tranås Municipality

Infobox_Kommun2
fullname=Tranås kommun


county=Jönköping County
province=Småland
capital=Tranås


arearank=203rd
area=439.76
arealand=404.79
populationrank=131st
population=17,765
densityrank=98th
populationdensity=43.9
website=http://www.tranas.se/
footnotes=Area and population as of December 31, 2006

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

The original entity "Tranås" was detached from the rural municipality "Säby" as a market town ("köping") in 1882 and made a city 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.

Localities

There are 3 urban areas (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.

General information

Famous citizens

*Lennart Hyland, renowned sports commentator and host for several radio- and tv-shows, born in Tranås city.
*Ove Fundin, worldchampion in speedway, also born in Tranås city.
*Johanna Westman, host on SVT, author of cook- and children's books.
*Richard Carlsohn, musical theatre performer.
* [http://www.eurohockey.net/players/show_player.cgi?serial=3323 Magnus Svensson] , by far the best hockey player from Tranås, has played hundreds of times in Swedens 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 with Florida Panthers.

ports

* [http://www.svenskidrott.se/organisation.asp?OrgElementId=2519 Tranås FF] is the city's football team.
* [http://www.tranasbois.com Tranås Bois] have played in bandy allsvenskan.
* [http://www.taif.se Tranås AIF] is the city's pride when it comes to ice hockey. The team currently resides in Division one.
* [http://www.svenskidrott.se/f/tranasbaseball Tranås Baseboll] is the city's pride when it comes to baseball.
* [http://www.tranasgk.se/ Tranås Golfklubb] is the city's Golf Club with a well known course.

News magazines

* [http://www.tranasposten.se/ Tranås-Posten]
* [http://www.tranastidning.se/ Tranås Tidning]

Education

* [http://www.alltomtuc.se/ Tranås Utbildningscentrum] , Community Centre of Higher Education and Professional Skills.
* [http://www.ho.tranas.se/ Holavedsskolan] , gymnasium. The name originates from Holaveden, the forest which acts like a border between Småland and Östergötland.

Miscellaneous

Tranås ONCE WAS well-known for its fur industry, even though there is almost no such activity today.

* [http://www.mojn.net Mojn.net] , arranges the biggest lanparties in the municipality.

Music plays an important part of everyday life in Tranås. Bands such as [http://www.rovsvett.com Rövsvett] , El Scorschos, The Trick and Feel Flows all try their best to give the citizens of Tranås a reason to live despite all doom and gloom.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 [http://www.bombdolls.com The Bombdolls] , a punk rock band that regularly tours in Sweden and Germany.

References

* [http://www.scb.se Statistics Sweden]

External links

* [http://www.tranas.se Tranås Municipality] - Official site
* [http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=58.05,15&spn=0.3,0.3&t=kz&z=3 Satellite image of Tranås from Google Maps]
* [http://www.ngw.nl/int/zwe/t/tranas.htm Coat of arms]