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

Overview

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 (born 1962) a Serbian-Danish actor, brought up and still lives in Skovlunde IMDb Database
retrieved 27 July 2020 * Jesper Christjansen (born 1987 in Skovlunde) a Danish footballer with nearly 300 club caps, plays for Lyngby BK

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

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