Nærum () is a suburban district in Rudersdal Municipality in the northern 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

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district on the northwest. 5,230 people live in the parish of Nærum, most of them in low-rise concrete blocks or single-family houses.

History

A village has been there at least since the

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, but the name Nærum was 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 Sister-wife of Njörðr, his unnamed sister, was in an ill-fated marriage with the goddess Skaði, lives in Nóatún (myth ...

, 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. A looped long

dolmen A dolmen, () or portal tomb, is a type of single-chamber Megalith#Tombs, megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more upright megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone or "table". Most date from the Late Neolithic period (4000 ...

, two coffins and a few parts of flint tools dating back to the Stone Age were found on . From the Bronze Age, many

burial mounds A tumulus (: tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds, mounds, howes, or in Siberia and Central Asia as ''kurgans'', and may be found throughout much of the world. ...

in the area (existing as well as looped) indicate 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 Dronninggård. 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 practice of using natural science, mathematics, and the engineering design process to Problem solving#Engineering, solve problems within technology, increase efficiency and productivity, and improve Systems engineering, s ...

company Brüel & Kjær previously had 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 terminus of Nærumbanen, a single track

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which connects the suburb with central

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and Jægersborg station.

References

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