Nivå is a town with a population of 8,769 (1 January 2025)BY3: Population 1. January by rural and urban areas, area and population density
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in the municipality of Fredensborg on the island of

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(Sjælland) in

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. Nivå is a residential town on the coast of the

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. It has a stop on the

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–

Helsingør Helsingør ( , ; ), classically known in English as Elsinore ( ), is a coastal city in northeastern Denmark. Helsingør Municipality had a population of 63,953 on 1 January 2025, making it the 23rd most populated municipality in Denmark. Helsin ...

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'' rail line. The town is the site for

Nivaagaard Nivaagaard is a historic property in Nivå in the northern outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is now home to an art gallery and the park is open to the public. History The estate was founded in 1767 by Adam von Lüttichau when he purchased Niv ...

museum, a

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and a desolated shopping center by the

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, which includes only a

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and a Netto supermarket. The town possesses two schools; Nivå Skole Syd (formerly known as Nivå Centralskole) and Nivå Skole Nord (formerly known as Niverødgaardskolen), whilst a

golf course A golf course is the grounds on which the sport of golf is played. It consists of a series of holes, each consisting of a teeing ground, tee box, a #Fairway and rough, fairway, the #Fairway and rough, rough and other hazard (golf), hazards, and ...

lies to the West. Its landscape is varied and ranges from

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to suburban habitations.

History

For several hundreds of years (until 1980), the town and the surrounding areas and villages, lay ground to three brickyards. Today, the landscape are marked with former clay pits, which now serves as lakes and a marina bassin. The oldest known ring oven in the world (1870) has been preserved. It used to be a part of the oldest brickyard,

Brickyard (in Danishg:

Nivaagaard Teglværk Nivaagaard is a historic property in Nivå in the northern outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is now home to an art gallery and the park is open to the public. History The estate was founded in 1767 by Adam von Lüttichau when he purchased Niv ...

). The brickyard is regularly open for visits each summer.

Music

Nivå Musiklaug holds an annual festival at the Kalvehaven: many talented young musicians play. One of the performers playing at the 2006 event was Danish singer-songwriter Tobias Trier.

Nivaagaards Malerisamling

Nivaagaards Malerisamling was opened by Johannes Hage in 1908. The house is situated in an extensive park featuring many different varieties of rhododendron. The museum houses art from the Italian and North European

renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) is a Periodization, period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries. It marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and was characterized by an effort to revive and sur ...

, Dutch and Danish Baroque, Danish Golden Age, as well as special exhibitions.

Notable people

* Alfred Hage (1803–1872) a Danish merchant, politician, landowner and philanthropist; in 1859 he purchased

and several other farms at Nivå *

Hans-Georg Tersling Hans-Georg Tersling (7 December 1857 – 13 November 1920) was a Danish architect who lived and worked for most of his life on the French Riviera where he became one of the most significant and productive architects of the Belle Époque. His ...

(1857 in Karlebo near Nivå – 1920) a Danish architect who lived and worked on the French Riviera *

Marie Hammer Marie Signe Hammer née Jørgensen (1907–2002) was a Danish zoologist and entomologist who specialized in moss mites. In the 1930s and 1940s, she undertook research in Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland. She later extended her investigati ...

(1907–2002) a Danish zoologist and entomologist, brought up on a farm in Nivå *

Lars Knutzon Lars Knutzon (born 1 October 1941) is a Danish actor and director, best known to international audiences for his role as Bent Sejrø in the Danish TV drama '' Borgen''. He is the son of actor, director and theatre director Per Knutzon and cabare ...

(born 1941) a Danish actor in the TV-series Borgen *

Lotte Bundsgaard Lotte Bundsgaard (born 20 January 1973) is a Danish schoolteacher, journalist and politician. She was born in Nivå to Jørgen Bundsgaard and Hanne Lund Bundsgaard. She married Søren Thorsager in 1999. She was elected member of Folketinget for ...

(born 1973 in Nivå) a Danish schoolteacher, journalist and politician *

Anders Heinrichsen Anders is a male name in Scandinavian languages and Fering North Frisian, an equivalent of the Greek Andreas ("manly") and the English Andrew. It originated from Andres via metathesis. In Sweden, Anders has been one of the most common names fo ...

(born 1980 in Nivå) a Danish actor IMDb Database
retrieved 01 July 2020 * Cecilie Wellemberg (born 1994) a Danish model and Miss Universe Denmark 2015, lives in Nivå.

External links

Nivaagaards MuseumGalleri Fensmark - Quality art on the internetFredensborg KommuneNivå GolfNivå Centralskole

References

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