Until 1 January 2007 Bramming Municipality was a municipality ( Danish: '' kommune'') in

Ribe County Ribe Amt () is a former county ( Danish: ''amt'') on the Jutland peninsula of southwest Denmark. It included Denmark's fifth largest city, Esbjerg. The county was abolished effective January 1, 2007, when it merged into Region of Southern Denmar ...

on the west coast of the

Jutland Jutland ( da, Jylland ; german: Jütland ; ang, Ēota land ), known anciently as the Cimbric or Cimbrian Peninsula ( la, Cimbricus Chersonesus; da, den Kimbriske Halvø, links=no or ; german: Kimbrische Halbinsel, links=no), is a peninsula of ...

peninsula in southwest

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. The municipality covered an area of 170 km², and had a total population of 13,638 (2005). Its last mayor was Karl Kristian Knudtzen, a member of the Venstre (Liberal Party)

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...

. The main town and the site of its municipal council was the town of Bramming. Bramming municipality ceased to exist as the result of the Municipal Reform of 2007 (''Kommunalreformen''). It was merged with the former

Ribe Ribe () is a town in south-west Jutland, Denmark, with a population of 8,257 (2022). It is the seat of the Diocese of Ribe covering southwestern Jutland. Until 1 January 2007, Ribe was the seat of both a surrounding municipality and county. It i ...

and

Esbjerg Esbjerg (, ) is a seaport town and seat of Esbjerg Municipality on the west coast of the Jutland peninsula in southwest Denmark. By road, it is west of Kolding and southwest of Aarhus. With an urban population of 71,698 (1 January 2022)

municipalities to form the new

Esbjerg Municipality Esbjerg Municipality () is a municipality ( Danish, '' kommune'') in Region of Southern Denmark on the west coast of the Jutland peninsula in southwest Denmark. Its mayor is Jesper Frost Rasmussen, from the Venstre (Center-Right Party) political p ...

. This created a municipality with an area of 741 km² and a total population of 114,097 (2005). The new municipality belongs to the

Region of Southern Denmark The Region of Southern Denmark ( da, Region Syddanmark, ; german: Region Süddänemark, ; frr, Regiuun Syddanmark) is an administrative region of Denmark established on Monday 1 January 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish Municipal Reform, which ab ...

(''Region Syddanmark'').

Notable people

John Lauridsen John Mikkelsen Lauridsen (born 2 April 1959) is a retired Danish professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder, gifted with field vision and able to shoot with both feet. He won the Danish championship with Esbjerg, before pla ...

(born 1959) a retired Danish professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder, played 27 times for Denmark. After his football career he settled in Bramming *

Anders Dreyer Anders Laustrup Dreyer (; born 2 May 1998) is a Danish professional footballer who plays for Midtjylland and the Denmark national team. The right winger previously played for Esbjerg fB, Brighton, St Mirren, SC Heerenveen and FC Rubin Kazan. ...

(born 1998) professional footballer for St Mirren.

External links

Esbjerg municipality's official website

References

* Municipal statistics
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aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data) * Municipal mergers and neighbors
Eniro new municipalities map
{{Coord, 55, 28, N, 8, 42, E, region:DK_type:city, display=title Esbjerg Former municipalities of Denmark