Tranbjerg was formerly a small rural village but is now a suburb of Aarhus about 10 kilometers south of the city center.

It is dedicated to Saint Ursula and the eleven thousand handmaidens.

The school was placed right next to the church, but newer and larger schoolbuildings were erected elsewhere in the 1970s.

It developed in the later part of the 1800s, after Tranbjerg railway station opened in 1884.

The train station transformed the village to a railway town, attracting industry and improving the trade options for local farmers.