Gentofte Municipality

Gentofte Municipality
Gentofte Municipality
	— Municipality —
	; Coat of arms
	; Coat of arms
Country	Denmark
Region	Capital Region
Seat	Charlottenlund
	Government
• Mayor	Hans Toft (C)
	Area
• Total	25.54 km2 (9.86 sq mi)
	Population (1 January 2012)
• Total	73,360
• Density	2,900/km2 (7,400/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Municipal code	157
Website	www.gentofte.dk

Gentofte Kommune is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in the Capital Region of Denmark (Region Hovedstaden) on the east coast of the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in eastern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 25.54 km² (9.86 sq mi), and has a total population of 73,308 (1 October 2012). Since 1993, its mayor has been Hans Toft, a member of the Conservative People's Party (Det Konservative Folkeparti).

The municipality is an amalgamation of seven formerly independent towns, all close to one another. The site of its municipal council is the town of Charlottenlund. The other towns are Dyssegård, Gentofte, Hellerup, Jægersborg, Klampenborg, Ordrup, and Vangede.

Neighboring municipalities are Lyngby-Taarbæk to the north, Gladsaxe to the west, and Copenhagen to the south. To the east is the Øresund, the strait that separates Zealand from Sweden.

Gentofte municipality was not merged with other municipalities in the 1 January 2007 nationwide Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007).

Demography

Population of Gentofte (from 1971 January 1 and from 1801 to 1921 February 1):


15.1.1769: 1.056 1.7.1787 : 1.526 1801 : 1.962 1840 : 2.750 1850 : 3.072 1860 : 3.660 1870 : 4.158 1880 : 5.106 1890 : 7.449 1901 : 14.470 1911 : 24.691 1921 : 34.451 5.11.1930:47.848 5.11.1940:76.457 7.11.1950:87.803 26.9.1960:88.308 9.11.1970:77.744	1971 : 77.683 1972 : 76.365 1973 : 74.673 1974 : 72.694 1975 : 71.634 1976 : 70.253 1977 : 68.873 1978 : 68.223 1979 : 67.667 1980 : 67.300 1981 : 66.782 1982 : 66.564 1983 : 66.902 1984 : 67.112 1985 : 66.767 1986 : 66.283 1987 : 66.011	1988 : 65.467 1989 : 65.032 1990 : 65.303 1991 : 65.696 1992 : 66.077 1993 : 65.986 1994 : 66.251 1995 : 66.508 1996 : 66.706 1997 : 66.986 1998 : 67.402 1999 : 67.709 2000 : 67.957 2001 : 68.094 2002 : 68.213 2003 : 68.314 2004 : 68.704	2005 : 68.991 2006 : 68.623 2007 : 68.672 2008 : 68.913 2009 : 70.000

Attractions

Bakken - the world's oldest, intact, still-surviving amusement park, located in Gentofte (Klampenborg)
Bellavista housing estate and Bellevue Teatret designed by Arne Jacobsen
Bernstorff Palace
Ordrupgaard - art museum, French impressionists, Paul Gauguin, Danish paintings from around 1900, varying special exhibitions.
Gentofte Stadion - football stadium, home stadium of Hellerup IK
Øregård Museum

Famous residents of the municipality

Arne Jacobsen (1902–1971), the noted architect and furniture designer, who built extensively in Gentofte and lived on Strandvejen.

Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich is probably Gentofte's most famous native, at least among younger generations.

Writer Dan Turèll (b. 1946, d. 1993) lived in the Vangede part of Gentofte from 1955–1964 and again from 1966 - 1969. He documented these years in his 1975 book "Vangede billeder" ("Vangede pictures").

Composer Per Nørgård (b. 1932) was born in Gentofte.

Movie critic Ole Michelsen is a resident, and his daughter, model and actress Katrine Michelsen, was born and died in Gentofte.

Shipping tycoon Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller also had his residence in the municipality.

External links

References

Municipal statistics: NetBorger Kommunefakta, delivered from KMD aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)
Municipal mergers and neighbors: Eniro new municipalities map
Demography:(Danish) Statistical Yearbook of Copenhagen. ISBN 87-7024-230-5

Coordinates: 55°45′02″N 12°33′07″E / 55.750472°N 12.552073°E / 55.750472; 12.552073