Bagsværd

Church in Bagsværd

Bagsværd (Danish pronunciation: [ˈpɑwˌsveˀɐ̯]) is a middle-class suburb approximately 12 km northwest of central Copenhagen, in the Gladsaxe Municipality. Its center is dominated by the Bagsværd Towers, two high-rise apartment blocks. The suburb is connected by S-Train and has three stations: Skovbrynet, Bagsværd, and Stengården.

Bagsværd Church, designed by Jørn Utzon, is a masterpiece of contemporary church architecture, especially for its rounded interior vaulting and the lighting effects of its skylights.^[1]

Established in 1908, Bagsværd Boarding School is one of Denmark's best-known private schools.^[2]

Bagsværd houses the headquarters of Danish pharmaceuticals company Novo Nordisk and biotechnology company Novozymes.

Notable people[]

• Eleonora Zrza (1797 in Bagsværd – 1862) a Danish opera soprano
• Karen Aabye (1904 – 1982 in Bagsværd) a Danish writer, lived in a villa called Kisum Bakke in Bagsværd from 1944
• Hugo Rasmussen (1941 in Bagsværd – 2015) a Danish bassist
• Lotte Koefoed (born 1957 in Bagsværd) a Danish rower and team bronze medallist at the 1984 Summer Olympics
• Hanne Boel (born 1958 in Bagsværd) a Danish singer.
• Thomas Guldborg Christensen (born 1984 in Bagsværd) a retired Danish footballer with 200 club caps
• Nikolas Nartey (born 2000 in Bagsværd) a Danish professional footballer of Ghanaian descent

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bagsværd.

• Gladsaxe Kommune - Bagsværds historie (in Danish)

Coordinates: 55°45′52″N 12°27′28″E / 55.76444°N 12.45778°E / 55.76444; 12.45778

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