Birkerød () is a town in
Rudersdal Municipality in the northern outskirts of
Copenhagen
Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...
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. It is surrounded by several lakes and small woodlands.
Birkerød station
Birkerød station is the railway station in Birkerød north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is served by S-trains on the Hillerød radial.
The railway station was built in 1864 and the first S-trains were used in 1968.
When built, the railroad stati ...
is located on the
Hillerød radial of the
S-train
The S-Bahn is the name of hybrid urban-suburban rail systems serving a metropolitan region in German-speaking countries. Some of the larger S-Bahn systems provide service similar to rapid transit systems, while smaller ones often resemble c ...
suburban network.
History
The parish of Birkerød contained the villages Birkerød, Kajerød, Bistrup,
Ravnsnæs, Isterød,
Høsterkøb
Høsterkøb is a village in Rudersdal Municipality, some north of central Copenhagen, Denmark. It is bounded on the south by Rude Forest and on the north by open fields.
Etymology
The name is derived from ''Husfrecop''. The first part of the n ...
, Sandbjerg and Ubberød.
Birkerød became a
railway town
A railway town, or railroad town, is a settlement that originated or was greatly developed because of a railway station or junction at its site.
North America
During the construction of the First transcontinental railroad in the 1860s, temporar ...
in 1868, when the
Nordbanen
Nordbanen is one of six radial S-train lines in Copenhagen. It connects Copenhagen city center with several northern suburbs, and the cities of Hillerød, Birkerød and Allerød
Stations
Service patterns
The weekday service consists of service ...
railway opened a station here between Lyngby and
Helsingør
Helsingør ( , ; sv, Helsingör), classically known in English as Elsinore ( ), is a city in eastern Denmark. Helsingør Municipality had a population of 62,686 on 1 January 2018. Helsingør and Helsingborg in Sweden together form the northe ...
. This led to new growth and several brickyards opened in the area in the second half of the 19th century.
[ The rail line between Copenhagen and Hillerød was later converted to an ]S-train
The S-Bahn is the name of hybrid urban-suburban rail systems serving a metropolitan region in German-speaking countries. Some of the larger S-Bahn systems provide service similar to rapid transit systems, while smaller ones often resemble c ...
suburban line and construction of new residential neighbourhoods accelerated in the 1940s which, in time, made Birkerød merge with Bistrup to the south, Kajerød to the west and Ravnsnæs to the east.
Geography
Birkerød is bordered by 941-hectare Lake Furesø to the south and Lake Sjælsø to the north. The smaller Birkerød Lake is located just south of the railway station in the town centre. The approximately 86 hectares wetland Vaserne (in Danish) along the northeastern shores of Lake Furesø and the western part of Frederikslund Forest separate Birkerød (Bistrup) from Holte
Holte is a suburban district in Rudersdal Municipality on the northern outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark. The local town centre is centred on Holte station and is surrounded by extensive areas of single-family, detached homes as well as several ...
to the southeast. Bistrup Hegn is situated between Bistrup to the south and Birkerød to the north. Rude Forest is located to the east of Birkerød. Eskemose Forest at Lake Sjælsø, north of Kajerød, is the site of several natural springs.
Townscape
Birkerød consists mainly of single family detached homes.
Tegnestuen Vandkunsten
Tegnestuen Vandkunsten a/s, often referred to simply as Vandkunsten, is a Danish architectural firm founded in 1970. Vandkunsten were awarded the Alvar Aalto Medal in 2009 for being a "modern and elaborator of Alvar Aalto's ideological heritage ...
has designed a number of housing estate
A housing estate (or sometimes housing complex or housing development) is a group of homes and other buildings built together as a single development. The exact form may vary from country to country.
Popular throughout the United States ...
s. Trudeslund (1980-81) is a co-housing community. The concept was later developed further with Jystrup Savværk in Jystrup. The Langkjærgård development is from 1985 and Blikfanget was built in 1988-1989. Søhuse (1995), a development of terraced housing, is located on a gently sloping site on the banks of Birkerød Lake.
Culture and sports
Mantziusgården, the former state school, is now used as a local cultural centre. Activities include art exhibitions, concerts, theatre and stand-up comedy. The premises also comprise four open workshops with facilities for making graphic art, glass art, ceramics and weaving. Other cultural Institutions includes Birkerød Library and the Local Historic Archives.
Birkerød Sports and Leisure Centre was built in 2007 and is located next to the indoor swimming hall and football pitches, both of which was renovated simultaneously. The new centre was designed by Schmidt hammer lassen and is used for a wide variety of activities, including team handball fitness and yoga as well as concerts and other cultural events.
The local football club of IF Skjold Birkerød was founded in 1917, and currently plays the Danish 2nd Division East
The 2nd Division ( da, Danmarksturneringens 2. division or Herre-DM 2. division) is a semi-professional association football league for men and the third division in Denmark. It is organised by the Divisionsforeningen on behalf of the Danish Footb ...
. Furesø Golf Club is based at Hestkøbgård in the western part of Birkerød. The club was established in 1974.
Education
Birkerød Gymnasium was founded as a private boys' school in 1868. In 2007 it changed name to Birkerød Gymnasium, HF, IB og Kostskole (Birkerød Gymnasium, HF, IB & Boarding School). The name change is due to the additional education types added since the foundation of the school. The school has over 1000 students, 300 of those being International Baccalaureate
The International Baccalaureate (IB), formerly known as the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO), is a nonprofit foundation headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and founded in 1968. It offers four educational programmes: the IB D ...
(IB) candidates. It is currently the biggest public IB school in Denmark. There is also a boarding school with about 70 students living on campus. Most of these students have been expats earlier in their life and might still have family members living as expats around the world.
Since 2011, a Model UN
Model United Nations, also known as Model UN or MUN, is an educational simulation in which students can learn about diplomacy, international relations, and the United Nations. At a MUN conference, students work as the representative of a count ...
at has been taking place annually at Birkerød Gymnasium. It is called BIGMUN (Birkerød Gymnasium Model United Nations) and it has attracted several hundreds of high-school students from around the world to debate as in the . At BIGMUN 2019, approximately 370 students from 33 different schools around the world participated. These countries include: United States, Israel, Germany, Spain and more.
Buildings of worship
Birkerød Church is a traditional Danish parish church whose oldest parts date from the late 12th and early 13th century. The tower was built in the late 15th century, the current chancel in about 1500 and the porch in 1525. The Parish of Bistrup was disjoined from that of Birkerød in 1963 and its church was inaugurated in 1967.
The property Nordvanggård housed a congregation of Sisters of the Precious Blood from the late 1950s until 2015. The Sisters belong to the German Province, the provincial house is in Neuenbeken near Paderborn. They also have a convent in Rønne
Rønne ( sv, Rönne) is the largest town on the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. It has a population of 13,807 (1 January 2022). It was a municipality in its own right from 1970 until 2002, when Bornholm was a county ( Danish: ''Born ...
on the island of Bornholm. The building is now owned by Rudersdal Municipality and is temporarily used to house refugees.
Transport
Rail
Birkerød station
Birkerød station is the railway station in Birkerød north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is served by S-trains on the Hillerød radial.
The railway station was built in 1864 and the first S-trains were used in 1968.
When built, the railroad stati ...
is located on the Hillerød radial of the S-train
The S-Bahn is the name of hybrid urban-suburban rail systems serving a metropolitan region in German-speaking countries. Some of the larger S-Bahn systems provide service similar to rapid transit systems, while smaller ones often resemble c ...
network. The station is served by the A trains during the day time (weekdays only) and E trains in the evening.
Road
Lyngby Kongevej
Secondary route 201 (Danish language, Danish: Sekundærrute 201) is a numbered road in North Zealand to the north of Copenhagen, Denmark, consisting of Lyngby Omfartsvej, a bypass (road), motorway bypass avoiding Lyngby Hovedgade (Lyngby Main Stree ...
bisects Birkerød on its way from Copenhagen to Hillerød. The Hillerød Motorway passed Birkerød to the west and the Helsingør Motorway passes Birkerød to the east.
Bus
From Birkerød station:
* 196: to Kajerød (Birkerød north)
* 197: to Holte Station
Holte station is the railway station in Holte near Copenhagen, Denmark. It is served by S-trains on the Hillerød radial. The station is also served by nine bus routes, providing connections to all nearby towns and villages.
History
The location ...
* 198: to Bistrup
* 199: to Birkerød west/industrial zone
* 500S: Ørestad station
Ørestad () is a developing city area in Copenhagen, Denmark, on the island of Amager.
The area was developed using the new town concept, closely linked with the M1 (Copenhagen), M1 line of the Copenhagen Metro. Economically, income for the plan w ...
- Ballerup station
Ballerup station is a station on the Frederikssund radial of the S-train network in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is in the middle of the suburb of Ballerup. The station complex includes a shopping center and a large bus terminal, which is the termi ...
- Birkerød station - Kokkedal station
From Bistrup:
* 334: Stenløse station - Farum station
Farum station is the terminus of the Hareskovbanen radial of the S-train network around Copenhagen, Denmark. It is located about 1 km east of the old village ''Farum'', but is the center of the modern Farum, which has grown up around the stat ...
- Bistrup - Holte station
Notable people
Businesspeople
* Povl Badstuber (1685 – 1762 in Birkerød), coppersmith and manufacturer
Culture
* Aage Bertelsen
Aage Bertelsen (28 September 1873 – 9 September 1945) was a Danish painter. He was a member of the Denmark Expedition to North-East Greenland. He has also worked for Kähler Keramik in Næstved.
Biography Early life and career
Aage Bertels ...
(1873 – 1945 in Birkerød), landscape painter], lived in Birkerød
* Axel Borup-Jørgensen (1924 – 2012 in Birkerød), composer
* Birgitte Hjort Sørensen
Birgitte Hjort Sørensen (born 16 January 1982) is a Danish actress. She has been nominated for three Robert Awards and one Bodil Award. Born in Hillerød and raised in Birkerød, Sørensen aspired to an acting career after watching the West En ...
(born 1982), actress, was. raised in Birkerød
* Hella Joof (born 1962 in Birkerød), actress and director, was born in Birkerød [ IMDb Database]
retrieved 20 April 2020
* Tina Kiberg (born 1958), operatic soprano, grew up in Birkerød
* Rasmus Kofoed
Rasmus Kofoed (born 1974) is a Danish chef and restaurateur who won the gold medal at the 2011 Bocuse d'Or, after previously taking the bronze medal in 2005 and the silver medal in 2007 in the same competition. He is the head chef and co-owner ...
(born 1974 in Birkerød), chef and restaurateur, was born in Birkerød
* Carl Edvard Sonne (17941878), printmaker, was born in Birkerød
* Jørgen Sonne (1801 in Birkerød – 1890), born and raised in Birkerød
Politics
* Thorkil Kristensen (1899 – 1989 in Birkerød), politician
* Flemming Kofod-Svendsen (born 1944)., politician, lives in Birkerød
* Erling Brøndum (1930–2017 in Birkerød), politician, lived in Birkerød
* Sophie Løhde (born 1983) a Danish politician and Govt. Minister
Sport
* Kai Jensen (1897 – 1997 in Birkerød) an athlete who competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics
* Bjarne Sørensen (born 1954 in Birkerød) a Danish former cyclist, competed at the 1976
Events January
* January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force.
* January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
* January 11 – The 1976 ...
and 1980 Summer Olympics
* Ditte Jensen (born 1980 in Birkerød) swimmer, competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics
The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...
* Mathias Tauber (born 1984 in Birkerød) a retired Danish footballer with 325 club caps
* Julie Hjorth-Hansen (born 1984 in Birkerød) swimmer, competed in 2008 Summer Olympics
* Martin Toft Madsen (born 1985 in Birkerød) a Danish cyclist
* Patrick Russell (born 1993 in Birkerød) a Danish professional ice hockey forward
* Anton Ipsen (born 1994) a Danish swimmer, participated in 2016 Summer Olympics
* Mathias Kvistgaarden (born 2002) a Danish footballer, who plays for Brøndby IF
Other
* Martin Ågerup (1966 in Birkerød) an economist, president of think tank CEPOS
Centre for Political Studies, also known as CEPOS, is an independent association which works as a classical liberal/free-market conservative think-tank in Denmark. It is a strongly right-leaning and highly political association.
History
Inspired ...
Twinnings
References
Sources
* Municipal statistics
NetBorger Kommunefakta
delivered fro
KMD aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)
* Municipal mergers and neighbors
Eniro new municipalities map
* Bus data
Køreplaner bus
External links
Municipality's official website
Birkerød Gymnasium Model UN website
Satellite map from Google Maps
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Former municipalities of Denmark
Cities and towns in the Capital Region of Denmark
Copenhagen metropolitan area
Rudersdal Municipality