Brande is a railway town with a population of 7,449 (1 January 2022) located at the railroad between Vejle and Herning in Ikast-Brande Municipality in Region Midtjylland in the central area of the Jutland peninsula in west Denmark. Until 1 January 2007 it was the seat of the municipal-council of Brande Municipality. Brande is the home of leading wind energy pioneer Bonus Energy A/S, now Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy. Brande is also home to Danish clothing companies Bestseller A/S and BTX Group. A Bestseller Tower was proposed In the 2010s Bestseller wanted to create a new quarter Bestseller Village & Tower with housing, business park, hotel, education area, etc. in the north-eastern part of the town, and the centre of the quarter would have been a new high-rise building called Bestseller Tower (Danish: Bestseller-tårnet), a 320 metres tall skyscraper. It should have been the second-highest structure in Western Europe, surpassed only by the 324 metres of the Eiffel Tower, though 10.4 meters taller than the Shard in London. The project was approved in March 2019 by Ikast-Brande Municipality, but was shelved in 2020. The mural paintings of Brande The mural paintings in Brande has made the city famous for its decorations and art in public spaces. In 1966, doctor Ole Bendix and lawyer Jørgen Mansfeld-Giese initiated the creation of the first mural paintings. The art association "Midtjysk Kunstforening" was established in the old Askjær School and marked a new phase in the history of Brande cultural scene. The purpose of the organisation was to arrange special events within art, music, theater and film. Initially, the number of members reached 600, both from Brande and the surroundings. The mural paintings were one of the first projects and the goal was to create a gallery atmosphere in the open space without fixed opening hours. Art should be accessible for everybody in their daily life and form the basis of debate and inspiration. Statens Kunstfond (Danish National Art Fund) supported the project, and artists started moving to Brande. The citizens were skeptic at first, but the mural paintings had put Brande on both the national and international map, and further to this, Brande was elected as the Danish city of the year in 1969. New mural paintings have been created during the years, some have been carefully restored and others have unfortunately disappeared due to new constructions and wear and tear. Joy of