Bondebyen (''Pesants' Town'' in

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) is a historical neighbourhood of

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. It is considered the best-preserved country town of the

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area, albeit it is now in the middle of the heavily urbanized Lyngby-Taarbæk municipality. Among the notable buildings is the house of Støvlet-Cathrine, as well as Lindegaarden (''Linden Farm''), built between 1841–1883. Høstvej nr. 4, ''Vilhelminelyst'', was

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's ancestral home. The known jurist Janus Kolderup-Rosenvinge lived in Høstvej nr. 6, and the merchant J. Fr. Tutein lived in Asylgade nr. 7. The association ''Bondebylauget'' has worked since 1970 to preserve, improve and restore the area; its president, Niels Friderichsen, is generally recognized to have saved Bondebyen from destruction by the buldozer-happy

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. Most of the buildings in Bondebyen are now

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