Frederiksberg Commune

	Frederiksberg Commune
Basic data
State :	Denmark
Region :	Hovedstaden
Region :	Byen København
Educated:	1970
Office (until the end of 2006) :	København's office
Harde : ; (until March 1970)	Sokkelund Herred
Office (until 1970) :	København's office
Residents :	104,305 (2020)
Area :	8.70 km² (2014)
Population density :	11,989 inhabitants per km²
Municipality number :	147
Administration headquarters:	Frederiksberg
Address:	Smallegade 1 ; 2000 Frederiksberg
Mayor:	Simon Aggesen ; ( Det Conservative Folk Party )
Website:	www.frederiksberg.dk
Sister cities :	Qeqertarsuatsiaat; Tórshavn Uppsala Bærum Hafnarfjörður Åland Tartu; ; ; ; ;

Frederiksberg Kommune [ fʀɛðəʀegsˈbɛʀʔ ] is a Danish municipality in the greater Copenhagen area on the island of Sjælland , west of central Copenhagen. It includes the city of Frederiksberg and is part of the capital region Hovedstadsområdet . As an enclave, Frederiksberg is completely surrounded by the Copenhagen metropolitan area. Together with the municipalities of Copenhagen and Gentofte , the Frederiksberg municipality forms the capital of Denmark ( “Hovedstaden” ) in the narrower sense.

Frederiksberg is one of 29 municipalities in the administrative region of Hovedstaden . Until January 1, 2007 it had the status of an official municipality .

104,305 (as of January 1, 2020) people live in an area of 8.70 km². This makes Frederiksberg - by population - the fifth largest city in Denmark . Mayor of Frederiksberg is Simon Aggesen (as of 2019); the post has been occupied by the Conservative Party since 1915 .

The municipality has a hospital ( Frederiksberg Hospital , part of Hovedstadens Sygehusfællesskab H: S ) and a fire department ( Frederiksberg Brandvæsen ).

In Frederiksberg there is a production facility of the Porcelain Manufactory Royal Copenhagen, founded in 1775, and a contact point of the BGI for archiving sequenced genomes .

City arms

The city coat of arms shows three falcons, this motif was also used to name some buildings.

history

Frederiksberg was originally located outside the city walls of Copenhagen, west of the Copenhagen Lakes . Frederiksberg has been an enclave since 1901 through the incorporation of several other neighboring communities into the city of Copenhagen .

The Frederiksberg settlement goes to King Friedrich III. back, who on June 2, 1651 gave twenty farmers from the island of Amager, southeast of Copenhagen, permission to settle in Ny Hollænderby (New Dutch Town); Amager had been reclaimed by Dutch farmers.

From 1700 to 1703 Frederick IV had a summer palace built on Valby Bakke (Valby Hill), called Solbjerg . It was inspired by the king's travels in France and Italy. According to him, the received Frederiksberg Castle and the settlement Ny Hollænderby their names to the castle hill.

The city grew rather slowly, around 1800 there were only 1,200 inhabitants. After 1822, when the so-called military demarcation line around Copenhagen was moved and finally lifted, Frederiksberg's real growth began. In 1857 the place was raised to an independent municipality, in 1860 the market rights followed , in 1864 the connection to the railway .

In 1969, the Domus Vista, the tallest house in Denmark and the tallest residential building in Scandinavia, was built in Frederiksberg. It has been the second tallest skyscraper in Denmark since 1976 and the second tallest residential building in Scandinavia since the opening of the Turning Torso .

Parishes in the commune

Parishes

The city of Frederiksberg consists of the following parishes ( Danish : Sogn ):

No.	Parish	Residents
01	Mariendals Sogn	14,563
02	Godthaabs Sogn	11,440
03	Saint Lukas Sogn	7,032
04th	Saint Thomas Sogn	9,270
05	Flintholm Sogn	10.112
06th	Lindevang Sogn	14,058
07th	Solbjerg Sogn	9,460
08th	Sankt Markus Sogn	11,417
09	Frederiksberg Sogn	16,484

Frederiksberg Slotssogn was spun off from Frederiksberg Sogn from 1982 to 2013.

Development of the population

Frederiksberg Castle (1699/1703)

1769 - 01,030
1787 - 01,143
1801 - 01,172
1840 - 02,304
1850 - 02,874
1860 - 08,164
1870 - 16,878
1880-26,510
1890-46,954

1901 - 076,231
1911 - 097,237
1921 - 104,815
1930 - 106,251
1940 - 113.208
1950 - 118.993
1960 - 114,285
1970 - 101,874

1975 - 95,318
1980 - 88,287
1985-88,030
1990 - 85,611
1995 - 88.002
2000 - 90,327
2005 - 91,886
2010 - 96,718
2012 - 98,782

2020 - 104,305

From 1975 on January 1st.

traffic

Bike path as part of Grønne Sti

Frederiksberg is connected to the lines M1 , M2 (Copenhagen Metro) and M3 ( Cityringen ) to the Copenhagen Metro . There are also several stations on the S-tog in Frederiksberg's urban area. Like the whole of Greater Copenhagen, Frederiksberg has an excellent cycle path system; of this testifies u. a. the Grønne Sti .

sons and daughters of the town

Johan Lorentz Mørch (1783–1834), inspector of Greenland
Regine Olsen (1822–1904), love of Sören Kierkegaard
Asger Hamerik (1843–1923), composer and conductor
Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller (1850–1926), composer
Conrad Poul Emil Brummerstedt (1857–1939), inspector of Greenland
Ejnar Hertzsprung (1873–1967), astronomer
Eiler Theodor Lehn Schiøler (1874–1929), banker
Johannes Christensen (1889–1957), marathon runner and engineer (from 1914 Johannes Granholm )
Peter Schindler (1892–1967), Roman Catholic pastor and writer
Franz Blatt (1903–1979), Middle Latin philologist
Pauli Jørgensen (1905-1993), football player
Preben Knuth (1906–1996), painter
Olaf Ussing (1907–1990), actor
Kjeld Gustav Knuth-Winterfeldt (1908–1992), Chamberlain and diplomat
Herbert Krenchel (1922–2014), designer
Leif Panduro (1923–1977), dentist and writer
Bent Fabricius-Bjerre (1924–2020), pianist and composer
John Hansen (1924–1990), football player
Kristian Jeppesen (1924–2014), archaeologist
Frank Jæger (1926–1977), writer
Peter Naur (1928–2016), astronomer and computer scientist
Torben Ulrich (* 1928), tennis player, musician and author
Axel Strøbye (1928–2005), actor
Hanne Smyrner (1934–2016), actress
Malene Schwartz (* 1936), actress
Anders Bodelsen (* 1937), writer
Bo Christensen (1937-2020), film producer
Jesper Neergaard (* 1939), sculptor
Lone Dybkjær (1940–2020), politician, minister, member of the European Parliament
Jesper Langberg (1940–2019), actor
Per Stig Møller (* 1942), politician
Claus Ryskjær (1945–2016), actor
Leif Mortensen (* 1946), racing cyclist
Per Kjeld Sørensen (* 1950), Tibetologist
Janus Billeskov Jansen (* 1951), film editor
Louise Frevert (* 1953), politician and former porn actress
Lars Bock (* 1955), handball player
Henrik Agerbeck (* 1956), soccer player
Susanne Staun (* 1957), author
Jesper Worre (* 1959), racing cyclist
Cæcilie Norby (* 1964), (jazz) singer
Monique Spartalis (* 1966), singer
Sofie Gråbøl (* 1968), actress
Katja Kean (* 1968), bourgeois Sussi La Cour Jakobsen , porn actress
Bo Hamburger (* 1970), racing cyclist
Jason Watt (* 1970), racing car driver
Søren Colding (* 1972), football player
Camilla Ottesen (* 1972), television presenter
Dion Åkerstrøm (* 1973), track cyclist and trainer
Rikke Lylloff (* 1978), actress
Rasmus Seebach (* 1980), musician
Christina Krogshede (* 1981), handball player
Christina Haurum (* 1989), handball player
Thomas Delaney (* 1991), football player
Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (* 1995), racing cyclist
Andreas Madsen (* 1997), pool player