From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search Skovlunde is a small Danish town in

Ballerup Ballerup is a Danish town, seat of the Ballerup Municipality, in the Region Hovedstaden. There are approximately 25 schools in Ballerup Municipality. Ballerup has its own educational institution specialized in the study, training and research of ...

Municipality and is a suburb 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 ...

(12 km west of downtown Copenhagen). Skovlunde has approximately 12.000 inhabitants and is on the Copenhagen S-train network. Ballerup Municipality has approximately 50.000 inhabitants.

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The town was founded in the Middle Ages and first appears in written material (a letter) dating back to 11 November 1249. Skovlunde consist of two parts, the older ''Gammel Skovlunde'' where you can find housing dating back from the seventeenth century and up to the eighteenth century. The other part of Skovlunde is the product of people relocating from

in the 1960s and a lot of newly built residential areas.

Notable people

Slavko Labović Slavko Labović (born 17 November 1962, Kolašin, PR Montenegro, FPR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian-Danish actor most popular for the role as a Serbian gangster in the '' Pusher trilogy''. Labović was born to Serbian Orthodox parents in Kolašin; he a ...

(born 1962) a Serbian-Danish actor, brought up and still lives in Skovlunde IMDb Database
retrieved 27 July 2020 *

Jesper Christjansen Jesper Christjansen (; born 29 December 1987) is a retired Danish professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Career Early career Christjansen first played for a local club, Skovlunde IF, and before joining the Brøndby IF youth academy. ...

(born 1987 in Skovlunde) a Danish footballer with nearly 300 club caps, plays for

Lyngby BK Lyngby Boldklub () is a Danish professional football club founded in 1921. It is based at Lyngby Stadion in Kongens Lyngby, Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality, a northern suburb of Copenhagen. From 1994 to 2001 the club was known as Lyngby FC. The club ...

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{{Authority control Villages in Denmark Copenhagen metropolitan area Ballerup Municipality

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