Øverød is a suburban neighborhood situated on the north side of Søllerød Lake in
Holte,
Rudersdal Municipality
Rudersdal Municipality () is a part suburban, part rural municipality ( Danish, '' kommune'') located on the northern outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark. It covers an area of 73 km² and has a population of 57,342 (1. January 2025). The distance ...
, in the northern outskirts of
Copenhagen
Copenhagen ( ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the Urban area of Copenhagen, urban area. The city is situated on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the ...
,
Denmark
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. The original village is now agglomerated with the modern district of
Holte and the village 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 ...
, forming the northernmost part of Copenhagen's
urban area
An urban area is a human settlement with a high population density and an infrastructure of built environment. Urban areas originate through urbanization, and researchers categorize them as cities, towns, conurbations or suburbs. In urbani ...
. Øverød is bounded by Rude Forest on the west and
Søllerød Naturpark on the east. It belongs to Holte postal district (2840 Holte).
History
Øverød was originally an ancient village. The name is recorded in 1370-80 as Øbæruth, which is derived from the old Danish male name ''Ø̄pi'' and ''-rød'', meaning "clearing in the forest" (''rydning'').
Most of the modern neighbourhood of Øverød date from the years after 1959 when the road Borgmester Schneiders Vej was constructed.
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Landmarks
Skovly School (''Skovlyskolen'') on Borgmester Schneiders Vej was completed in 1970 to a design by Knud Munk, Halldor Gunnløgsson & Jørn Nielsen.
Notable residents
* Peter Frederik Suhm
Peter Frederik Suhm (18 October 1728 – 7 September 1798), was a Danish historian.
Biography
Suhm studied at the University of Copenhagen from 1746 to 1751, and one of his teachers was Ludvig Holberg. In 1749 he translated a comedy of Plautu ...
(1728–1798) a Danish historian owned a country house in Øverød called ''Suhmsminde'', which was demolished in 1959.
* Axel Olrik
Axel Olrik (3 July 1864 – 17 February 1917) was a Denmark, Danish folklore, folklorist and scholar of mediaeval historiography, and a pioneer in the methodical study of oral narrative.
Olrik was born in Frederiksberg, the son of the artist H ...
(1864–1917 in Øverød) a Danish folklorist and scholar of mediaeval historiography and a pioneer in the methodical study of oral narrative.
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Neighbourhoods in Denmark
Rudersdal Municipality
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