Bondebyen (''Pesants' Town'' in Danish) is a historical neighbourhood of Kongens Lyngby. It is considered the best-preserved country town of the

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 ...

area, albeit it is now in the middle of the heavily urbanized Lyngby-Taarbæk municipality. Among the notable buildings is the house of Støvlet-Cathrine, as well as Lindegaarden (''Linden Farm''), built between 1841–1883. Høstvej nr. 4, ''Vilhelminelyst'', was Gyrithe Lemche's ancestral home. The known jurist Janus Kolderup-Rosenvinge lived in Høstvej nr. 6, and the merchant J. Fr. Tutein lived in Asylgade nr. 7. The association ''Bondebylauget'' has worked since 1970 to preserve, improve and restore the area; its president, Niels Friderichsen, is generally recognized to have saved Bondebyen from destruction by the buldozer-happy

Lyngby-Taarbæk municipality Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality (occasionally spelled Lyngby-Tårbæk, ) is a municipality () in the Capital Region of Denmark near Copenhagen on the eastern coast of the island of Zealand (). It is part of the Greater Copenhagen area. The municipali ...

. Most of the buildings in Bondebyen are now listed.

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