Holte is a suburban district in Rudersdal Municipality on the northern outskirts of

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. The local town centre is centred on Holte station and is surrounded by extensive areas of single-family, detached homes as well as several lakes and forests. The district has merged with the old villages of

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Øverød Øverød is a suburban neighborhood situated on the north side of Søllerød Lake in Holte, Rudersdal Municipality, in the northern outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark. The original village is now agglomerated with the modern district of Holte and t ...

which both belong to Holte postal district (2840 Holte). Gammel Holte ("Old Holte"), a few kilometres to the east, also in Rudersdal Municipality but merged with the urban area of neighbouring

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, predates what is now called Holte by several hundred years; in the past Holte was formally referred to as Ny Holte ("New Holte") to distinguish the two.

History

Modern Holte is located on land that used to belong to the

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estate. The name Holte originally referred to the medieval village of Holte (now Gammel Holte – literally Old Holte) located a few kilometres to the northeast of the modern district. When the owner of Holtegård moved his inn to a new site on Kongevejen in the 1780s, he gave it the name ''Ny Holte Kro'' ("New Holte Inn"). This name was adopted for the local railway station when the

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opened in 1864. The name of the station and the surrounding district was later changed to Holte while the name of the old village was changed to Gammel Holte ("Old Holte").

Landmarks

The Søllerød Town Hall, completed in 1942, was designed in the Functionalist style by

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. The town centre also contains the Holte Midtpunkt shopping centre. Holte Church was completed on the top of Geel's Hill (''Geels Bakke'') in 1945.

Natural surroundings

Several lakes are located in the Holte area. There is a small leisure craft harbor and a beach at Vejlesø which is connected to the larger lake Furesø on the western boundary of the district by a canal. A small ferry operates on the two lakes in the summer time. Søllerød Lake separates Holte from

to the east. Holte also borders on the natural areas Vaserne, Rude Forest, Søllerød Naturpark and Geel's Forest.

Notable people

* Johanne Hesbeck (1873–1927) photographer, she ran a portrait studio in Holte, 1915 to 1927 * Emil Telmányi (1892 – 1988 in Holte) a Hungarian violinist *

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Sport

Frank Høj Frank Høj (born 4 January 1973) is a retired Danish professional road bicycle racer. Høj started as a stagiaire for the Zetelhallen–Vosschemie team in 1994, and became professional in 1995 for . His first win as a professional came the year ...

(born 1973 in Holte) a retired Danish road bicycle racer, competed at the

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and

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* Alexander Fischer (born 1986 in Holte) a Danish footballer, with over 350 club caps *

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(born 1976) a former Danish professional badminton player, he resides in Holte * Jacob Larsen (born 1997 in Holte) a Danish basketball player

References

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History
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