9 Sights in Kongens Lyngby, Denmark (with Map and Images)
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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Kongens Lyngby, Denmark! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Kongens Lyngby. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.
Sightseeing Tours in Kongens LyngbyActivities in Kongens Lyngby1. Frilandsmuseet
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.
2. Brede Værk
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.
3. Frieboeshvile
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.
4. Brede Hovedbygning
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.
5. Lundtofte Kirke
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.
6. Lyngby Nordre Mølle
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 Mølle, possibly in 1762, changed in 1846 and 1850, and it has been a hammer mill and grain mill. It is the only one of Mølleåen's turbines that is ready to run by the power of water.
7. Lyngby Søndre Mølle
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.
8. Dansebakken
Dansebakken is a round mound in Kongens Lyngby, close to Sorgenfri Castle. The Round Mound is on the Danish Heritage Agency'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 about 10 meters across.
9. Brede Vandtårn
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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