{{Short description|Municipality in Ringkøbing, West Denmark}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{no footnotes|date=March 2013}} [[File:Brande_-_Storegade.jpg | thumb | right]] Until 1 January 2007, '''Brande municipality''' was a municipality (Danish, ''[[Commune (subnational entity)|kommune]]'') in [[Ringkjøbing County|Ringkøbing]] on the [[Jutland]] peninsula in west Denmark. The municipality covered an area of 188 km<sup>2</sup>, and had a total population of 8,822 (2005). Its last mayor was Preben Christensen. The main town and the site of its municipal council was the town of [[Brande]].
The municipality was created in 1970 as the result of a {{lang|da|kommunalreform}} ("Municipality Reform") that Blåhøj and Brande [[parish]]es.
Brande municipality ceased to exist as the result of [[Municipalities of Denmark#Municipal Reform 2007|''Kommunalreformen'' ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007)]]. It was merged with [[Ikast municipality|Ikast]] and [[Nørre-Snede municipality|Nørre-Snede]] municipalities to form the new [[Ikast-Brande municipality]]. This created a municipality with an area of 768 km<sup>2</sup> and a total population of 39,371 (2005). The new municipality belongs to the [[Region Midtjylland]] ("Mid-Jutland Region").
== External links == * [http://www.ikast-brande.dk The new Ikast-Brande municipality's official website (Danish only)] * [http://www.brande-turist.dk/ Brande tourist bureau]
==References == * Municipal statistics: [https://web.archive.org/web/20070812152043/http://www2.netborger.dk/Kommunefakta/ NetBorger Kommunefakta], delivered from [http://www.kmd.dk/ KMD aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)] * Municipal mergers and neighbors: [https://web.archive.org/web/20061208085744/http://kommune.eniro.dk/region/media/nyekommuner.shtml Eniro new municipalities map]
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[[Category:Former municipalities of Denmark]]