Tranebjerg

Tranebjerg is a town, situated at the south central part of the island of Samsø in Denmark. It is the largest town on Samsø and also the municipal seat of Samsø Municipality.

Key facts

Settlement.official_name: Tranebjerg
Settlement.settlement_type: Town
Settlement.image_skyline: Tranebjerg Kirke - panoramio - Jens Cederskjold.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Tranebjerg Church
Settlement.pushpin_map: Denmark Central Denmark Region
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: above
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in the Central Denmark Region
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Denmark
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Region
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Central Denmark
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Samsø
Settlement.population_as_of: 2025
Settlement.population_total: 843
Settlement.population_density_km2: auto
Settlement.timezone1: CET
Settlement.utc_offset1: +1

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Elevation: 17
Image: Tranebjerg Kirke (Samsø Kommune).JPG

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History
Tranebjerg Church
Climate
Notable residents
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Tranebjerg is a town, situated at the south central part of the island of Samsø in Denmark. It is the largest town on Samsø and also the municipal seat of Samsø Municipality.

Tranebjerg is an old town, with a big village church from the 14th century 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 grain mill 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.