11 Sights in Kongens Lyngby, Denmark (with Map and Images)

Sorgenfri Palace is a royal residence of the Danish monarch, located in Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality, on the east side of Lyngby Kongevej, in the northern suburbs of Copenhagen. The surrounding neighbourhood is called Sorgenfri after it. Only the cellar and foundations survive of the first Sorgenfri House, which was built in 1705 to design by François Dieussart. The current house was built in 1756 by Lauritz de Thurah and later adapted and extended by Peter Meyn in the 1790s. Lauritz de Thurah has also designed buildings which flank the driveway closer to the road.

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The National Museum of Denmark's new museum, Brede Works, lies in the countryside just north of Copenhagen in Denmark's largest, protected industrial plants. At the museum of Industrial culture, the visitors can be guided around by its own virtual person between old machines, hear how Denmark became an industrial society and even try to work at an assembly line. The exhibitions show the industrial development which has changed the everyday lives of the Danes over the past few centuries.

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Frieboeshvile is a Baroque-style country house in Kongens Lyngby north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is located across the street from Sorgenfri Palace, where Lyngby Main Street meets Lyngby Kongevej. The house takes its name after Frederik Casper Conrad Frieboe who is buried in the grounds together with his wife and a few other family members. Its most notable former resident is Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz who played an important part in the Rescue of the Danish Jews during World War II.

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Sorgenfri Church is located in the district of Sorgenfri at the top of the hill in Hummeltoften, Virum, overlooking Lyngby Åmose and Lyngby Lake. The church that was inaugurated in 1966 is built of yellow bricks. The pentagonal church room has yellow brick walls. Baptism font and ceiling decoration are also pentagonal. The developer is Sorgenfri Church Council. The church was designed by architect Tyge Hvass, the engineering work is done by Jørgen Nielsen A/S.

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Brede Water Tower was built in 1907-08 by G.R. Øllgaard in Hellerup and was built for Brede Klædefabrik, which today is part of the National Museum. The 16 m. high tower is still in use and can accommodate 80 m3. During the Occupation, the resistance movement used the space under the water tank to store weapons. The tower was listed in 1991.

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Lyngby Nordre Mølle is one of the two watermills in Kongens Lyngby and is no. 24 on Lyngby Hovedgade. It was built as an extension of Lyngby Søndre Mill, possibly in 1762, modified in 1846 and 1850, and it was a hammer mill and grain mill. It is the only one of Mølleåen's turbines that is ready to run by the power of the water.

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Dansebakken is a round mound in Kongens Lyngby close to Sorgenfri Castle. Rundhøjen is on the Danish Agency for Cultural Heritage's list of protected ancient monuments, where it is described as a mound from ancient times of 25 by 3.5 meters with a flat top that is approximately 10 meters across.

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Frilandsmuseet is an open-air museum on the northern outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark. The museum is located in Lyngby on Kongevejen in North Zealand. The museum can be reached directly by bus number 184 from Nørreport Station in central Copenhagen or by S-train to Sorgenfri station.

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Lyngby Søndre Mølle, literally Lyngby Southern Mill, is a defunct watermill on Mølleåen located at Lyngby Hovedgade, Kongens Lyngby, in the northern suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark. The current building is from 1902. The name distinguishes it from nearby Lyngby Nordre Mølle.

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Brede House is a late 18th-century country house in Kongens Lyngby north of Copenhagen, Denmark. Originally built for the owner of the adjacent Brede Works, it is now owned by the National Museum of Denmark and run as a historic house museum.

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Lundtofte Church is a Church of Denmark parish church in Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality in the northern suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark. It was completed in 1921 but is built in the style of a typical Danish white-washed village church.

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