Tranebjerg | |
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Town | |
 Tranebjerg Church | |
  Tranebjerg Location in the Central Denmark Region | |
| Coordinates: 55°50′N 10°36′E / 55.833°N 10.600°E | |
| Country | Denmark |
| Region | Central Denmark |
| Municipality | Samsø |
| Population (2024)[1] | 843 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
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.
- ^ BY3: Population 1st January, by urban areas The Mobile Statbank from Statistics Denmark