Kystagerparken is a park located in

Hvidovre Hvidovre is the main town in Hvidovre Municipality, Denmark. The town, a suburb of Copenhagen, is about 10 km southwest of the capital's center. It is the 2nd biggest suburb of Copenhagen, only beaten by Frederiksberg. History Hvidovre has ...

Denmark ) , song = ( en, "King Christian stood by the lofty mast") , song_type = National and royal anthem , image_map = EU-Denmark.svg , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark ...

, it borders Kalveboderne, the waters between

Zealand Zealand ( da, Sjælland ) at 7,031 km2 is the largest and most populous island in Denmark proper (thus excluding Greenland and Disko Island, which are larger in size). Zealand had a population of 2,319,705 on 1 January 2020. It is the 1 ...

and

Amager Amager ( or, especially among older speakers, ) in the Øresund is Denmark's most densely populated island, with more than 212,000 inhabitants (January 2021) a small appendage to Zealand. The protected natural area of ''Naturpark Amager'' (includi ...

. The nearest station is Åmarken. Kystagerparken is just one of several connected parks and green spaces in and around Hvidovre and link to areas such as Strandengen, Mågeparken,

Vestvolden Vestvolden () is a rampart complex west of Copenhagen, Denmark. Stretching approximately from Avedøre in the south to Utterslev Mose in the north, it is part of the last generation of land fortifications of the city. Built in the period 1888–1 ...

, Rebæk Søpark,

Valbyparken Valby Park ( da, Valbyparken) is a park in Valby, Copenhagen. It serves as the Copenhagen venue for the travelling Grøn Koncert festival. History The park is situated at the site of the former ''Valby Fælled'' ("common land, Common"), which ...

and Vigerslevparken to name some.

History

The artificial hill of 'Bjerget' (English: ''The Mountain'') in the park, was constructed from excess dirt from the excavations at

Kongens Bryghus Christian IV's Brewhouse (Danish: Christian IV's Bryghus) is a building in Copenhagen, Denmark, dating from 1608. In spite of the name under which it is known today, the building was not originally built for the purpose of brewing beer. It is loca ...

Frederiksberg Frederiksberg () is a part of the Capital Region of Denmark. It is formally an independent municipality, Frederiksberg Municipality, separate from Copenhagen Municipality, but both are a part of the City of Copenhagen. It occupies an area of ...

in 1957. Kystagerparken has a status as a

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and became an EU protected

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in 1994. The grass is allowed to grow freely and the many wild flowers, seeds and plants provides habitat for insects,

shrew Shrews (family Soricidae) are small mole-like mammals classified in the order Eulipotyphla. True shrews are not to be confused with treeshrews, otter shrews, elephant shrews, West Indies shrews, or marsupial shrews, which belong to different fa ...

skylark ''Alauda'' is a genus of larks found across much of Europe, Asia and in the mountains of north Africa, and one of the species (the Raso lark) endemic to the islet of Raso in the Cape Verde Islands. Further, at least two additional species are ...

fox Foxes are small to medium-sized, omnivorous mammals belonging to several genera of the family Canidae. They have a flattened skull, upright, triangular ears, a pointed, slightly upturned snout, and a long bushy tail (or ''brush''). Twelve sp ...

es and the

common kestrel The common kestrel (''Falco tinnunculus'') is a bird of prey species belonging to the kestrel group of the falcon family Falconidae. It is also known as the European kestrel, Eurasian kestrel, or Old World kestrel. In the United Kingdom, where no ...

Activities in the park

Kystagerparken invites to a number of activities throughout the year: A

Solar System model Solar System models, especially mechanical models, called ''orreries'', that illustrate the relative positions and motions of the planets and Natural satellite, moons in the Solar System have been built for centuries. While they often showed rela ...

on a scale of 1:1,000,000,000 stretches through the park to Mågeparken, another park nearby. The

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path reaches from the

Sun The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a nearly perfect ball of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core. The Sun radiates this energy mainly as light, ultraviolet, and infrared radi ...

on the hill of 'Bjerget', to the outermost planet

Pluto Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of trans-Neptunian object, bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object to directly orbit the S ...

5.9 km away. In 2000, when the planet path was constructed as a public

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project, Pluto was still considered a planet. Each planet is cast in

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and placed in the correct distance relative to each other. In autumn, when stronger winds blow across the country, the hill of 'Bjerget' is considered an excellent place for flying

kites A kite is a tethered heavier than air flight, heavier-than-air or lighter-than-air craft with wing surfaces that react against the air to create Lift (force), lift and Drag (physics), drag forces. A kite consists of wings, tethers and anchors. ...

. During snowfall in winter, it facilitates activities like

sledding Sledding, sledging or sleighing is a winter sport typically carried out in a prone or seated position on a vehicle generically known as a sled (North American), a sledge (British), or a sleigh. It is the basis of three Olympic sports: luge, skele ...

and on

Easter Day Easter,Traditional names for the feast in English are "Easter Day", as in the ''Book of Common Prayer''; "Easter Sunday", used by James Ussher''The Whole Works of the Most Rev. James Ussher, Volume 4'') and Samuel Pepys''The Diary of Samuel P ...

in the spring, the Cultural Council of Hvidovre arrange "egg rolling" for kids here; an old Danish Easter tradition.

References

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Kystagerparken and Bjerget
Hvidovre Municipality
Planetstien
Hvidovre Municipality Parks in Copenhagen Solar System models Protected areas of Denmark {{CapitalDK-stub