Parks and open spaces in Copenhagen

Copenhagen is a green city well endowed with open spaces. It has an extensive and well-distributed system of parks that act as venues for a wide array of events and urban life. As a supplement to the regular parks, there are a number of congenial public gardens and some cemeteries doubling as parks. It is official municipal policy in Copenhagen that all citizens by 2015 must be able to reach a park or beach on foot in less than 15 minutes.^[1]

Parks

Ørsted Park (55°40′52″N 12°33′59″E / 55.6811°N 12.5663°E), as well as the Botanical Garden (55°41′12″N 12°34′25″E / 55.6867°N 12.5736°E), which is particularly noted for a large complex of 19th-century greenhouses donated by Carlsberg founder J. C. Jacobsen.^[5]

waterfowl. The park also offers views of the elephants and the elephant house, designed by the world-famous British architect Norman Foster, at the adjacent Copenhagen Zoo

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Some of Copenhagen's newer parks draw from their position by the water.

Amager Beach Park (55°39′24″N 12°38′28″E / 55.6566°N 12.6411°E) was founded in 1934, but in 2005 a 2.4-kilometre-long artificial island was added, separated from the original beach by a lagoon crossed by three bridges.^[7]

It is official municipal policy in Copenhagen that all citizens by 2015 must be able to reach a park or beach on foot in less than 15 minutes.[8] In line with this policy, several new parks are under development in areas poor in green spaces.^[9]^[10] One of those recently completed is Superkilen, an innovative park for the ethnic inhabitants of the Nørrebro district of Copenhagen.^[11]

Public gardens

The Royal Library, Denmark, on Slotsholmen

which dates to 1906, viewed from the northwest

Besides the regular parks, a number of gardens open to the general public serve as important green spaces in central Copenhagen. These include:

The Library Garden (55°40′29″N 12°34′53″E / 55.6746°N 12.5813°E / 55.6746; 12.5813 (Library Garden)), the garden of the Royal Library on Slotsholmen, located between the library and Christiansborg Palace^[12]
The Glyptoteque Garden (55°40′20″N 12°34′16″E / 55.6721°N 12.5712°E / 55.6721; 12.5712 (Glyptoteque Garden)), the small garden behind the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
Grønnegården (55°41′11″N 12°35′37″E / 55.6864°N 12.5935°E / 55.6864; 12.5935 (Grønnegården)), the inner courtyard of the
Museum of Art & Design
The Carlsberg Academy Garden in the Carlsberg District (55°39′52″N 12°32′00″E / 55.6644°N 12.5333°E / 55.6644; 12.5333 (Carlsberg Academy Garden)), one of two historic gardens at the former brewery site. Now open to the public during daytime.

Cemeteries

Characteristic of Copenhagen is that a number of

garden features

.

Greenways

Copenhagen Municipality is developing a system of interconnected green bicycle routes,

Greenways, with the aim to facilitate fast, safe and pleasant bicycle transport from one end of the city to the other. The network will cover more than 100 kilometres and consist of 22 routes when finished.^[15]

Semi-natural areas

Some open spaces on the outskirts of Copenhagen have a more informal and semi-natural character, having originally been countryside areas protected against surrounding urbanisation. They include:

Amager Common (55°39′0.65″N 12°34′41.78″E / 55.6501806°N 12.5782722°E / 55.6501806; 12.5782722), is a 223 hectare protected area on Amager.^[16]
Kalvebod Common (55°36′31″N 12°32′07″E / 55.6086°N 12.5354°E / 55.6086; 12.5354 (Kalvebod Common)), a 2,000-hectare protected area right next to the new business district of Ørestad. Its natural, slightly maintained parkland features a range of ecosystems, from young forests to tidal marshes; some areas are prevented from developing into forests by grazing livestock and game.
Utterslev Mose (55°43′02″N 12°30′22″E / 55.7173°N 12.5060°E / 55.7173; 12.5060 (Utterslev Mose)), a 221-hectare area in the northwestern part of Copenhagen. Three lakes with extensive reed beds cover a total of 91 hectares and are surrounded by parkland.^[17]
red and fallow deer
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Vestskoven (55°41′33″N 12°22′06″E / 55.6925°N 12.3682°E / 55.6925; 12.3682 (Vestskoven)), a 130-hectare forested area located west of Copenhagen, mainly in Albertslund Municipality
Hareskoven (55°46′13″N 12°24′14″E / 55.7702°N 12.4039°E / 55.7702; 12.4039 (Hareskoven)), a 485-hectare forested area to the northwest of Copenhagen, situated in Furesø and Gladsaxe municipalities

References

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^ En grøn og blå storby^{[permanent dead link]}, Københavns Kommune
^ "King's Garden". Slots- og Ejeondomsstyrelsen. Archived from the original on March 29, 2008. Retrieved 2009-01-05.
^ "Kongens Have". AOK. Retrieved 2009-01-05.
^ "King's Garden". Slots- og Ejeondomsstyrelsen. Archived from the original on March 29, 2008. Retrieved 2009-01-05.
^ "Botanisk Have". Carlsberg. Archived from the original on 2016-05-18. Retrieved 2009-01-05.
^ "Fælledparken". AOK. Retrieved 2009-01-05.
^ "Amager Strandpark". AOK. Retrieved 2009-01-05.
^ "En grøn og blå storby". Københavns Kommune. Retrieved 2009-01-05.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "Superkilen by Bjarke Ingels Group". Dezeen. Retrieved 2009-01-05.
^ ""1001 Træ", Nordvest". Københavns Kommune. Archived from the original on 2007-04-29. Retrieved 2009-01-05.
^ Bonnie Fortune, "So many people lent a hand to give us parklife!", Copenhagen Post, 15 January 2012. Retrieved 16 October 2012.
^ Det Kongelige Biblioteks Have Archived 2005-10-27 at archive.today, Slots- og Ejendomsstyrelsen
^ "København får mere liv på kirkegårdene". Politiken. Retrieved 2009-01-05.
^ "Guide: Gå på opdagelse i de dødes haver". Politiken. Retrieved 2009-01-05.
^ Green bicycle routes Archived February 28, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, Københavns Kommune
^ "Amager Fælled". naturstyrelsen.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2020-06-09.
^ Utterslec Mose, Dansk Ornitologisk Forening

External links

Media related to Parks in Copenhagen at Wikimedia Commons

[1] En grøn og blå storby^{[permanent dead link]}, Københavns Kommune

[2] "King's Garden". Slots- og Ejeondomsstyrelsen. Archived from the original on March 29, 2008. Retrieved 2009-01-05.

[3] "Kongens Have". AOK. Retrieved 2009-01-05.

[4] "King's Garden". Slots- og Ejeondomsstyrelsen. Archived from the original on March 29, 2008. Retrieved 2009-01-05.

[5] "Botanisk Have". Carlsberg. Archived from the original on 2016-05-18. Retrieved 2009-01-05.

[6] "Fælledparken". AOK. Retrieved 2009-01-05.

[7] "Amager Strandpark". AOK. Retrieved 2009-01-05.

[8] "En grøn og blå storby". Københavns Kommune. Retrieved 2009-01-05.^{[permanent dead link]}

[9] "Superkilen by Bjarke Ingels Group". Dezeen. Retrieved 2009-01-05.

[10] ""1001 Træ", Nordvest". Københavns Kommune. Archived from the original on 2007-04-29. Retrieved 2009-01-05.

[cp-11] Bonnie Fortune, "So many people lent a hand to give us parklife!", Copenhagen Post, 15 January 2012. Retrieved 16 October 2012.

[12] Det Kongelige Biblioteks Have Archived 2005-10-27 at archive.today, Slots- og Ejendomsstyrelsen

[13] "København får mere liv på kirkegårdene". Politiken. Retrieved 2009-01-05.

[14] "Guide: Gå på opdagelse i de dødes haver". Politiken. Retrieved 2009-01-05.

[15] Green bicycle routes Archived February 28, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, Københavns Kommune

[16] "Amager Fælled". naturstyrelsen.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2020-06-09.

[17] Utterslec Mose, Dansk Ornitologisk Forening

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