Bondebyen is a historical neighbourhood of Kongens Lyngby

Kongens Lyngby

Kongens Lyngby is the main city in the affluent Danish municipality of Lyngby-Taarbæk. Just north of Copenhagen, the city lies in the northern part of Denmark's largest island, Zealand...

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It is considered the best-preserved country town of the Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

 area, albeit it is now in the middle of the heavily urbanized Lyngby-Taarbæk municipality.

Among the building is the house of Støvlet-Cathrine and Lindegaarden (Linden Farm), built between 1841–1883.
Høstvej nr. 4, Vilhelminelyst, was Gyrithe Lemches ancestral home. On Høstvej nr. 6 lived the known jurist Janus Kolderup-Rosenvinge, and on Asylgade nr. 7 lived the merchant J. Fr. Tutein.

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

Lyngby-Taarbæk Kommune is a municipality in Region Hovedstaden near Copenhagen on the east coast of the island of Zealand in eastern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 39 km², and has a total population of 51,449 . Its mayor as of 2010 is Søren P...

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Most of the buildings in Bondebyen are now listed

Heritage Agency of Denmark

The Heritage Agency of Denmark is a body under the Danish Ministry of Culture. It has the regulatory responsibility for sites and monuments, listed buildings and State-subsidised museums...

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See also

• The Open Air Museum
  Frilandsmuseet
  Frilandsmuseet is an open air museum in Lyngby at the northern outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark. Opened in 1897 and covering 40 hectares, it is one of the largest and oldest open-air museums in the world....
  
  , a collection of historical buildings that was moved to Sorgenfri
  Sorgenfri
  Sorgenfri is a neighbourhood in Lyngby-Taarbæk municipality in Greater Copenhagen lying just north of Kongens Lyngby. It is the site of Sorgenfri Palace....
  
  , in the same municipality
• Rådvad
  Rådvad
  Raadvad, or Rådvad is a neighbourhood in the Lyngby-Taarbæk municipality, by the Mølleåen, in the middle of the Dyrehaven. It was originally a small industrial town, built around a waterwork, the Raadvad Mølle....
  
  , a similar neighbourhood, also in the same municipality, but of industrial, rather than agricultural, origin, and much more isolated