Hellerup () is a very affluent district of

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in the suburbs of

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. The most urban part of the district is centred on Strandvejen and is bordered by

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to the south and the Øresund to the east. It comprises Tuborg Havn, the redeveloped

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site of Tuborg Breweries, with the Waterfront Shopping Center, a marina and the headquarters of several large companies. Other parts of the district consist of single family detached homes. Local landmarks include the science centre Experimentarium and the art Øregaard Museum.

Geography

With an area of approximately 515

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s, Hellerup covers 20% of the municipality. The district is bounded by the municipal border with Copenhagen (

) to the south, the Øresund to the east,

Charlottenlund Charlottenlund is a suburban area on the coast north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is the administrative seat of Gentofte Municipality. Bordered to the east by the Øresund, to the South by Hellerup and to the north by Klampenborg, it is one of the ...

Forrest to the north, Lyngbyvej to the southwest and Niels Andersens Vej/Eivindsvej to the northwest. As of a January 2012, Hellerup had a population of 18,781, equaling 25% of the municipal population. The Hellerup postal district (2900 Hellerup) includes a somewhat larger area since part of Østerbro has the postal code 2900 Hellerup.

History

Country houses and open countryside

In spite of its name, with the suffix -rup, Hellerup does not originate in an old village. In the 18th century the area was still open countryside with scattered country houses. One of them, Lokkerup, was renamed Hellerupgård when it was acquired by Johan David Heller in 1748. It would later lend its name to the modern district of Hellerup. Hellerupgård was later purchased by the merchant and shipowner Erich Erichsen. He commissioned the French architect Joseph-Jacques Ramée to built a new house in 1802. Other country houses included Øregård, Blidah and Taffelbay. One of the oldest properties in the area was Vartov, a former watermill which had been acquired by Frederick II in 1566 and used as a hunting lodge. It was converted into a hospital for the poor in 1607 and later used as a home for beggars after a new hospital was built closer to the city. The naval officer Charles Frédéric le Sage de Fontenay acquired it in the 18th century and converted it into a country house.

Harbour and early industry

A harbor was built on the coast between 1869 and 1873. The new

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was inaugurated that same year.

C.L. Ibsen and redevelopment of the area

In 1887, Carl Ludvig Ibsen began to acquire land in the area with the intention to sell it off in lots to developers and private citizens. He purchased Hellerupgård, Lille Mariendal and Slukefter in Hellerup as well as Smakkegård, Rygård, Lundegård and Stengård in Gentofte. The land in Hellerup alone added up to 37 hectares. He also reclaimed an area along the coast just north of Tuborg Breweries, leading to the creation of the three parallel streets resulted in the streets Frederikkevej, Marievej og Carolinevej. He did not build on the land himself but prepared it with sewers and roads and then sold it off in lots to developers and private citizens. In the mid-1890s, redevelopment of the areas on the west side of Strandvejen began, resulting in streets such as Ryvangs Allé, Svanemøllevej, Callisensvej, Ehlersvej and Tuborgvej. A new gasworks, Strandvejsgasværket, opened adjacent to Tuborg Breweries in 1893. Many of the new homes had WCs and electricity. In 1916, Ibsen placed his remaining land in a company, A/S De Ibsenske Grunde i Gjentofte Sogn, which existed until 1945.

Present day

Notable sites in Hellerup include "''Store og Lille Tuborg''", which later lent the name to the

Tuborg Tuborg is a Danish brewing company founded in 1873 on a harbour in Hellerup, an area North of Copenhagen, Denmark. Since 1970 it has been part of the Carlsberg Group. The brewery's flagship, the Tuborg pilsner, was brewed for the first time ...

breweries that opened on the site and operated until the merger of the companies brewing operations with Carlsberg. As of 1996, it has been a residential area with numerous apartments overlooking the harbour. The site is also home to the headquarters of several Danish and international companies. Hellerup is home to the science cente
Experimentarium
The coast road, Strandvejen, runs through the main thoroughfare of the town and is home to numerous shops and boutiques. Other features of Strandvejen are the beach at

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and

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. Hellerup also has two churches, one built in 1900 and the other in 1959. The

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studio, founded in 1936, was based in Hellerup and produced some of the most notable films in Denmark.

Education

Tranegårdskolen is a state school located in Hellerup. Among others it is attended by the four children of the Danish

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and Crown Princess. Rygaards International School is located in Hellerup. Hellerup School is also located in Hellerup. It's known as the school of the future partially because of the open layout, international contacts and project-based education. It also runs a 5-year Math and Science program in collaboration with Gammel Hellerup Gymnasium. Gammel Hellerup Gymnasium is a public secondary school that was attended by Prince Felix of Denmark from 2018 to 2021. Øregård Gymnasium was founded in 1903 as Plock Ross School. In 1919, Gentofte municipality took over the school, which was renamed Øregård Gymnasium. In 1924, the school moved into a new main building designed by architects GB Hagen and Edward Thomsen.

Notable people

The Arts

Frederik Sødring Frederik Hansen Sødring (31 May 1809 – 18 April 1862) was a Danish landscape painter and founder of an endowment. Background Sødring was born in Aalborg, Denmark. He was the son of merchant Peder Hansen Sødring (d. 1839) and Ane Dor ...

(1809 – 1862 in Hellerup) a Danish landscape painter * Lorenz Frølich (1820 – 1908 in Hellerup) a Danish painter, illustrator, graphic artist and etcher * Clara Wæver (1855 – 1930 in Hellerup) was a Danish embroiderer * Karina Bell (1898 in Hellerup – 1979) a Danish film actress * Palle Huld (1912 in Hellerup – 2010) a Danish film actor and writer *

Sigrid Horne-Rasmussen Sigrid Horne-Rasmussen (22 September 1915 – 24 April 1982) was a Danish stage and film actress. She was married to Danish actor and comedian Dirch Passer. Filmography * '' Sun Over Denmark'' – 1936 * ' – 1938 * ''I dag begynder livet ...

(1915 in Hellerup – 1982) a Danish stage and film actress * Hans-Henrik Krause (1918 in Hellerup – 2002) a Danish actor and film director * Poul Bundgaard (1922 in Hellerup – 1998) a Danish actor * Birgit Sadolin (born 1933 in Hellerup) a Danish actress * Finn Aabye (born 1935 in Hellerup) a film producer, former director of Danish Film Institute * Lars Bloch (born 1938 in Hellerup) a Danish actor and producer * Lisbet Lundquist (born 1943 in Hellerup) a Danish film actress * Henrik Prip (born 1960 in Hellerup) a Danish actor *

Pede B Peter Ankjær Bigaard, better known by his stage name Pede B (born in 1984), is a Danish rapper originating from Hellerup. Starting rapping at a young age, he took part in MC's Fight Night, winning the title three times in 2005, 2007 and 2009, b ...

(born 1984 in Hellerup) stage name of ''Peter Ankjær Bigaard'', a Danish rapper *

Stine Fischer Christensen Stine Fischer Christensen (born 1985) is a Danish actress. She has appeared in more than fifteen films since 1997. For her performance as ''Anna Louisa Hansson'' in ''After the Wedding (2006 film), After the Wedding'' she won the Bodil Award for ...

(1985), a Danish actress IMDb Database
retrieved 20 April 2020 * Leonora (born 1998 in Hellerup), stage name of ''Leonora Colmor Jepsen'', a Danish singer and former competitive figure skater

Public thinking & Business

* Holger Pedersen (1867 – 1953 in Hellerup) a Danish linguist * Hother A. Paludan (1871 - 1956 in Hellerup) a Danish architect and civil servant * Lis Jacobsen (1882 – 1961 in Hellerup) a Danish philologist, archaeologist and writer * Carl Gunnar Feilberg (1894 – 1972 in Hellerup) a Danish geographer, ethnographer and explorer of Asia *

Christian Frederik von Schalburg Christian Frederik von Schalburg (15 April 1906 – 2 June 1942) was a Danish army officer, the second commander of Free Corps Denmark and brother of Vera Schalburg. Biography Christian Frederik von Schalburg was born in Zmeinogorsk, Tomskaja Gub ...

(1906–1942) a Danish army officer, the second commander of Free Corps Denmark lived in Hellerup in the 1920s * Vera Schalburg (1907–1946) a Soviet, German and British agent, lived in Hellerup in the 1920s *

Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Arnold Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller (; 13 July 1913 – 16 April 2012) was a Danish shipping magnate. He was a longtime figure at A.P. Moller–Maersk Group, which was founded by his father. Personal life Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller was born in He ...

(1913 in Hellerup – 2012) a Danish shipping magnate and Denmark's wealthiest person * Karl Gustav Stricker Brøndsted (1915 in Hellerup – 1945) a member of the Danish resistance executed by the German occupying power

Sport

Hans Bjerrum Hans Adolf Bjerrum (8 September 1899 – 10 May 1979) was a Danish field hockey player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the Danish field hockey team, which won the silver medal. He later formed the Danish civil en ...

(1899 in Hellerup – 1979) a Danish field hockey player, team silver medallist at the 1920 Summer Olympics later founded

Bierrum Bierrum is a British civil engineering and construction company, that has built all of Britain's concrete cooling towers at the country's power stations since 1965. History It was founded by Hans Bierrum (or Hans Bjerrum), a Danish civil engi ...

which makes concrete cooling towers * Jørgen Ulrich (1935 in Hellerup – 2010) a Danish tennis player * Torben Piechnik (born 1963 in Hellerup) a Danish former professional footballer with over 400 caps * Paul Elvstrom (born 1928 in Hellerup) a Danish sailor who won four Olympic gold medals and twenty world titles in a range of classes including Snipe, Soling, Star, Flying Dutchman, Finn, 505, and 5.5 Metre. For his achievements, Elvstrøm was chosen as "Danish Sportsman of the Century. * Nicolas Beer (born 1996 in Hellerup) a Danish racing driver

Science and Academia

Andreas Mogensen Andreas Enevold Mogensen (born 2 November 1976) is a Danish engineer and ESA astronaut who is best known for being the first Dane to fly in space as part of the European Space Agency's iriss program. Mogensen has also been involved in a number of ...

(b.1976) Danish astronaut and engineer. The first Dane in space *

Aage Bohr Aage Niels Bohr (; 19 June 1922 – 8 September 2009) was a Danish nuclear physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 with Ben Roy Mottelson and James Rainwater "for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and pa ...

(1922-2009 in Hellerup) Danish physicist and recipient of the

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in 1975. Son of world-renowned physicist

Niels Bohr Niels Henrik David Bohr (; 7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922 ...

References

External links

Gentofte Web Atlas
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