Braås

Braås is a locality situated in Växjö Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden with 1,547 inhabitants in 2010.
It is the site of a Volvo factory, which was built in 1975.

Braås in Culture

The cycle of poems "Herr Mogens, bondeplågaren" in Albert Ulrik Bååth's book "Svenska toner" is said to be based on a legend about the nobleman Peder Ryning of Lidboholm, near Braås. The feature film Komedi i Hägerskog*, starring Anita Björk, Tor Isedal, and Ulf Brunnberg, was partially filmed in Braås. *In Jonas Jonasson's novel "The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared", Braås appears several times.