title: Bredebro
text: # Bredebro
  
  Bredebro is a small town with a population of 1,456 (1 January 2023) in Region of Southern Denmark in Denmark on the Jutland peninsula. The town was the original home of the ECCO shoe manufacturing company.
  
  Until 1 January 2007 Bredebro was the seat of the former Bredebro Municipality (Danish, kommune).
  
  ## Bredebro Municipality
  
  The former Bredebro Municipality covered an area of 151 $km^2,$ and had a total population of 3,680 (2005). Its last mayor was Vagn Therkel Pedersen, a member of the Venstre (Liberal Party) political party. The municipality was created in 1970 as the result of a kommunalreform ("Municipality Reform") that combined the Ballum, Brede, Randerup, Sønder, and Visby parishes.
  
  Bredebo Municipality ceased to exist due to Kommunalreformen ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007). It was merged with Højer, Løgumkloster, Nørre-Rangstrup, Skærbæk, and Tønder municipalities to form the new Tønder Municipality. This created a municipality with an area of 1,352 square kilometres (522 sq mi) and a total population of 42,645 (2005).
  
  