Nærum () is a suburban district in Rudersdal Municipality in the north outskirts of

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. Quartered by the Helsingør Motorway running north–south and Skodsborgvej running east–west, Nærum is bounded by Jægersborg Hegn on the south and east, Geel's Forest on the west, open fields on the north and the

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 ...

district on the northwest. 5230 people live in the parish of Nærum, most of them in low-rise concrete blocks or single-family houses.

History

Frederik Christian Kiærskou - Rundforbi 1834

A village has been there at least since the

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, but the name Nærum is first recorded in 1186 when Bishop

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gave all his holdings, including Nærum, to

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. It is believed that the name refers to his home Nóatún, the home of the god

Njörðr In Norse mythology, Njörðr (Old Norse: ) is a god among the Vanir. Njörðr, father of the deities Freyr and Freyja by his unnamed sister, was in an ill-fated marriage with the goddess Skaði, lives in Nóatún and is associated with the ...

, a Norse god associated with sea, seafaring, wind, fishing, wealth, and crop fertility. Traces of people and human activity have been found on the Nærum plain and in the Nærum area since the Peasant Stone Age. From the Stone Age, a looped long dolmen, two coffins and a few parts of flint tools on Pueholm. From the Bronze Age, many burial mounds in the area (existing as well as looped) testify to human habitation. Some of the mounds, however, were originally from the Stone Age, but were recycled in the Bronze Age and in the investigated mounds, skeletal remains and flint tools from the Stone Age as well as a Bronze sword from the Bronze Age have been found. The current village itself called Nærum has existed since the Iron Age. The oldest part of the city is located around the street pond and up the hill to the main street. The estate Nærumgård was founded by Frederik Ludvigh Lemwigh, who was manager of the royal estates Frederiksdal and

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. A later owner, Peter Borre, brought more land under the estate and built a new main building between 177^?? and 1781. Christian Colbiørnsen, who owned Nærumgård from 1781 to 1806, increased the estate further. In 1888 it was converted into an

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and the land was sold off to the municipality in 1906. Nærum was not disjoined from the parish of

until 1932.

Landmarks

The district has a gymnasium called Nærum Gymnasium built in 2003. The multinational corporation

engineering Engineering is the use of scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more speciali ...

company

Brüel & Kjær Brüel & Kjær (Sound and Vibration Measurement A/S) was a Danish multinational engineering and electronics company headquartered in Nærum, near Copenhagen. It was the largest producer in the world of equipment for acoustic and vibrational mea ...

has its headquarters in Nærum. Nærumvænge Torv is a shopping centre built between 1951 and 1958 to a design by Palle Suenson.

Transport

Nærum railway station is the

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of Nærumbanen, a single track

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which connects the suburb with central

Lyngby Kongens Lyngby (, Danish for "the King's Heather Town"; short form Lyngby) is the seat and commercial centre of Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality in the northern suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark. Lyngby Hovedgade is a busy shopping street and the site ...

and

Jægersborg station Jægersborg station is a station on the Hillerød radial of the S-train network in Copenhagen, Denmark, served by the E and A-train. It is also the southern terminus of the Nærumbanen local railway. There are two distinct sets of platforms for ...

References

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Naerum Cities and towns in the Capital Region of Denmark Copenhagen metropolitan area Rudersdal Municipality