Borups Allé is a major artery in the northwestern part of inner

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. The 3.2 km long street runs from

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at Nuuks Plads in the southeast to Bellahøj in the northwest. Just before Hulgårdsvej, part of Ring 2, Borups Allé is joined by Bispeengbuen, an elevated road section that connects it to Åboulevard-Ågade and

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in the city centre. The rest of Borups Allé is the first leg of the National Road 16, part of the Danish national road network. It continues as a six-lane road to Frederikssundsvej where it becomes Hareskovvej and later the Hillerød Motorway at

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Location

Borups Allé is the direct continuation of

Rantzausgade Rantzausgade is a street in the Nørrebro district of Copenhagen, Denmark. It runs from Åboulevard in the southeast to Jagtvej in the northeast where its name changes to Borups Allé. History Rantzausgade was originally called Nordvestvej ("No ...

. The initial part of the street passes below the elevated Bispeengbuen viaduct and Ringbanen S-train line. The former is located on the border between Copenhagen's

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district and

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. Borups Allé No. 105–143 and 102–156 are located in Frederiksberg. The street then passes through

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on its way to Bellahøj in

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where it turns into Hareskovvej after Frederikssundsvej and shortly thereafter the Hillerød Motorway at

History

Construction of the road began in 1902. It received its current name following the Conservative politician Ludvig Christian Borup's unexpected death on 18 January 1903, just one week after he had participated in the inauguration of the new

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. He had served as Mayor of Finances () since 1884. The new name was officially adopted by

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on 21 December 1903 and by Frederiksberg Municipal Council on 14 December 1903. Borups Allé was initially a tree-lined avenue that passed through fairly rural surroundings. It crossed the small Ladegårdsåen River on a bridge. Brønshøj, which also comprised present-day Bispebjerg district, had only recently been merged into Copenhagen. The city reserved large areas of land for public housing but development was initially slow due to a low demand for housing at the time. In 1908, Copenhagen had 11,000 empty apartments. In the early 1920s te situation had dramatically changed with increasing housing shortage and many large residential projects were built over the following decades. The street was widened in the 1960s to accommodate the pressure from car traffic. Bispeengbuen was constructed between 1970 and 1972.

Notable buildings and residents

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's Neoclassical Hornbækhus from 1923 is one of the finest examples of the large residential blocks that were built in Copenhagen in the 1920s. It is 200 metres long and 80 metres wide and contains 290 apartments. The building occupies the block bounded by Borups Allé (No. 5–23), Hornbækgade (No. 2-10), Skotterupgade No. 13–19) and Ågade (No. 116–134). It surrounds a green space designed by

Gudmund Nyeland Brandt Gudmund Nyeland Brandt (17 March 1878 in Frederiksberg – 30 April 1945 in Kessel-lo) was a Danish landscape architect who was internationally renowned. Career Brandt was born at Frederiksberg, Denmark. His father, Peter Christoffer Brandt, was ...

. Borups Plads (Borup's Square) is another Neoclassical apartment block, fronting a small public space on the corner with Lundtoftegade. It was designed by

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for the City and completed in 1924. The Telephone House (No. 43) replaced the similarly named building in Nørregade as headquarters of KTAS (now TDC). The company still owns the building but is now headquartered in South Harbour. With its tower and location next to Bispeengbuen, the building is a visible landmark in the area. The Copenhagen Denmark Temple on Priorvej, the 118th operating

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, fronts a small urban space on Borups Allé. Priorvej Chapel was originally built by the Latter-day Saints in 1931. It was converted into a temple in 1994. Genforeningspladsen ('Reunion Square') is located to the south of Borups Allé and Hulgårdsvej. The development consists of eight residential blocks surrounding a sports ground with facilities for soccer, tennis and a running course which is turned into a 400-metre ice skating circuit in winter. The residential buildings were designed by different architects and built between 1919 and 1932. They are arranged according to strictly symmetrical plans centred on an axis with various urban spaces and landscape elements that run from the top of the green Bellahøj Hill to Gandhis Plæne at Borups Allé. The name refers to the Reunion of Denmark and northern Schleswig in 1920. Across the street from Gandhi's Lawn, between Vibevej and Mågevej, is another residential development, Grønnegaarden (No. 180-198), a two-storey block from 1923 designed by

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. Next to it, north of Mågevej, is Vestergårdsporten, a residential development from 1918. Two of the blocks (C and D) were designed by

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. Bellahøj Swimming Stadium is located at the southwestern corner of Borups Allé and Frederikssundsvej.

Transport

Fuglebakken station serves the Ringbanen S-train line. Nuuks Plads is a station on the City Circle Line of the

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