The town was the original home of the ECCO shoe manufacturing company.

The former Bredebro Municipality covered an area of 151 km2, and had a total population of 3,680 (2005).

The municipality was created in 1970 as the result of a kommunalreform ("Municipality Reform") that combined the Ballum, Brede, Randerup, Sønder, and Visby parishes.

This created a municipality with an area of 1,352 square kilometres (522 sq mi) and a total population of 42,645 (2005).

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