Holte is a suburban district in Rudersdal Municipality on the northern outskirts of

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. The local town centre is centred on Holte station and is surrounded by extensive areas of single-family, detached homes as well as several lakes and forests. The district has merged with the old villages of Søllerød and

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which both belong to Holte postal district (2840 Holte). Gammel Holte ("Old Holte"), a few kilometres to the east, also in Rudersdal Municipality but merged with the urban area of neighbouring Hørsholm, predates what is now called Holte by several hundred years; in the past Holte was formally referred to as Ny Holte ("New Holte") to distinguish the two.

History

Modern Holte is located on land that used to belong to the Dronninggård estate. The name Holte originally referred to the medieval village of Holte (now Gammel Holte – literally Old Holte) located a few kilometres to the northeast of the modern district. When the owner of Holtegård moved his inn to a new site on Kongevejen in the 1780s, he gave it the name ''Ny Holte Kro'' ("New Holte Inn"). This name was adopted for the local railway station when the

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opened in 1864. The name of the station and the surrounding district was later changed to Holte while the name of the old village was changed to Gammel Holte ("Old Holte").

Landmarks

The

Søllerød Town Hall Søllerød Town Hall ( da, Søllerød Rådhus), now renamed Rudersdal Town Hall, was built for the former Søllerød Municipality which in 2007 became part of Rudersdal Municipality, combining Søllerød and Birkerød. The building is located in ...

, completed in 1942, was designed in the Functionalist style by

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. The town centre also contains the Holte Midtpunkt shopping centre. Holte Church was completed on the top of Geel's Hill (''Geels Bakke'') in 1945.

Natural surroundings

Several lakes are located in the Holte area. There is a small

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harbor and a beach at Vejlesø which is connected to the larger lake Furesø on the western boundary of the district by a canal. A small ferry operates on the two lakes in the summer time. Søllerød Lake separates Holte from Søllerød to the east. Holte also borders on the natural areas Vaserne, Rude Forest,

Søllerød Naturpark Søllerød Naturpark is a protected area of rolling fields, meadows and small woods in Rudersdal Municipality, some 20 kilometres north of central Copenhagen, Denmark. It reaches from Søllerød Kirkeskov in the south to Høje Sandbjerg in the nor ...

and Geel's Forest.

Notable people

Johanne Hesbeck Ida Johanne Hesbeck (2 September 1873 – 25 March 1927) was a Danish photographer. From 1915 to 1927, she ran a successful portrait studio in Holte, north of Copenhagen. Biography Born in Varde, Jutland, Hesbeck was the daughter of a merchant, ...

(1873–1927) photographer, she ran a portrait studio in Holte, 1915 to 1927 *

Emil Telmányi Emil Telmányi (22 June 1892 – 13 June 1988) was a Hungarian violinist. Telmányi was born in Arad, Partium, Transylvania, then in the Kingdom of Hungary. In 1911 he gave the Berlin premiere of the Violin Concerto of Sir Edward Elga ...

(1892 – 1988 in Holte) a Hungarian violinist *

Natasja Crone Back Natasja Crone Back (born 12 June 1970) is a Danish journalist and TV show presenter. She is well known from several big shows on Danish television. Early life and career Crone was raised in Holte north of Copenhagen and is of Danish and Beloruss ...

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Sport

* Frank Høj (born 1973 in Holte) a retired Danish road bicycle racer, competed at the

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and

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

Alexander Fischer Alexander Fischer (born 16 September 1986) is a retired Danish professional footballer who played as a right-back and current manager of Skive IK Skive Idræts Klub, commonly known as Skive IK, SIK (especially locally) or simply Skive, is a ...

(born 1986 in Holte) a Danish footballer, with over 350 club caps * Peter Gade (born 1976) a former Danish professional badminton player, he resides in Holte * Jacob Larsen (born 1997 in Holte) a Danish basketball player

References

External links

History
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