Holte is a suburban district in
Rudersdal Municipality on 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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. The local town centre is centred on
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
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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
Søllerød is a suburban district of Rudersdal Municipality in the northern outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark. The original village, one of the oldest in the area, is perched on Søllerød Hill on the south side of Søllerød Lake. It merged with ...
and
Øverød Øverød is a suburban neighborhood situated on the north side of Søllerød Lake in Holte, Rudersdal Municipality, in the northern outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark. The original village is now agglomerated with the modern district of Holte and the ...
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
Hørsholm () is an urban area on the Øresund coast approximately north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It covers most of Hørsholm Municipality and straddles the borders neighbouring Fredensborg Municipality and Rudersdal Municipality.
Hørsholm prope ...
, 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
Næsseslottet is an 18th-century country house located on the shores of lake Furesøen at Holte north of Copenhagen, Denmark. The name, which translates as "Peninsula House", is a reference to the buildings setting on a narrow peninsula which ...
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
North Line 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, completed in 1942, was designed in the Functionalist style by
Arne Jacobsen
Arne Emil Jacobsen, Hon. FAIA () 11 February 1902 – 24 March 1971) was a Danish architect and furniture designer. He is remembered for his contribution to architectural functionalism and for the worldwide success he enjoyed with simple we ...
and
Flemming Lassen
Flemming Lassen (23 February 1902 – 18 February 1984) was a Modernist architecture, Modernist Denmark, Danish architect and designer, working within the idiom of the International style (architecture), International Style. Among his most notable ...
. 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
leisure craft 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
Søllerød is a suburban district of Rudersdal Municipality in the northern outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark. The original village, one of the oldest in the area, is perched on Søllerød Hill on the south side of Søllerød Lake. It merged with ...
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
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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
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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
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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 ...
(born 1970) a Danish journalist and TV show presenter, raised in Holte
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retrieved 05 July 2020
Sport
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Frank Høj
Frank Høj (born 4 January 1973) is a retired Danish professional road bicycle racer. Høj started as a stagiaire for the Zetelhallen–Vosschemie team in 1994, and became professional in 1995 for . His first win as a professional came the year a ...
(born 1973 in Holte) a retired Danish road bicycle racer, competed at the
2000
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and
2004 Summer Olympics
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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
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(born 1976) a former Danish professional badminton player, he resides in Holte
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Jacob Larsen (born 1997 in Holte) a Danish basketball player
References
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Municipal seats in the Capital Region of Denmark
Municipal seats of Denmark
Copenhagen metropolitan area
Cities and towns in the Capital Region of Denmark
Rudersdal Municipality