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Gentofte Municipality

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name	Gentofte Municipality
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image_skyline	Gentofte Sø (Denmark).jpg
image_shield	Gentofte Kommune coa.svg
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image_map	Map DK Gentofte.PNG
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subdivision_name	Denmark
subdivision_type1	Region
subdivision_name1	Hovedstade
established_title	Established
established_date
seat_type	Seat
seat	Charlottenlund
leader_party	C
leader_title	Mayor
leader_name	Michael Fenger
unit_pref	Metric
area_total_km2	25.54
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population_total	75076
population_as_of	1. January 2025
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website

Gentofte Municipality () 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. It covers an area of 25.54 km², and has a total population of 75,076 (1. January 2025). Since 17 May 2021, its mayor has been Michael Fenger, a member of the Conservative People's Party (Det Konservative Folkeparti).

Gentofte is the most wealthy municipality in Denmark and consists of several fashionable Copenhagen suburbs such as Hellerup and Charlottenlund.

The municipality is an amalgamation of three formerly independent towns, and several other local settlements, all close to one another. The site of its municipal council is in Charlottenlund. The three original towns were Gentofte, Vangede and Ordrup. It later included Tuborg, Skovshoved, Dyssegård, Hellerup, Jægersborg, and Klampenborg.

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

Gentofte municipality was not merged with other municipalities in the 1 January 2007 nationwide Kommunalreformen.

Lars Ulrich, drummer and co-founder of the American heavy metal band Metallica, was born in Gentofte.

Demography

| 1769|1,056 | 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 | 1930|47,848 | 1940|76,457 | 1950|87,803 | 1960|88,308 | 1970|77,744 | 1980|67,300 | 1990|65,303 | 2000|67,957 | 2009|70,000 | graph-pos = bottom

Politics

Municipal council

Gentofte's municipal council consists of 19 members, elected every four years.

Below are the municipal councils elected since the Municipal Reform of 2007.

Election	Party	Total
seats	Turnout	Elected
mayor
[](social-democrats-denmark)	[](danish-social-liberal-party)	[](conservative-people-s-party-denmark)	[](socialist-people-s-party-denmark)	[](liberal-alliance-denmark)
2005	2	2	9	1
2009	3	2	10	2
2013	3	1	11
2017	2	1	13	1
Data from Kmdvalg.dk 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2017

Attractions

Bellavista housing estate and Bellevue Teatret designed by Arne Jacobsen
Bernstorff Palace
Charlottenlund palace, park and forest
Ordrupgaard – art museum, French impressionists, Paul Gauguin, Danish paintings from around 1900, varying special exhibitions.
Gentofte Sportspark – football stadium, home stadium of Hellerup IK
Kildeskovshallen- swimming pool (including a 50m pool, 25m pool, a children's pool, a baby pool with warm water basin, and also Finnish saunas), including also other facilities such as two halls for ball game, a physiotherapist clinique, fitness centre, conference rooms, and a restaurant.
Øregård Museum

Education

Gentofte Municipality is home to four public upper secondary schools: Øregård and Gammel Hellerup in Hellerup, Aurehøj in Gentofte and Ordrup Gymnasium in Ordrup. Gentofte Municipality is also home to the private Rygaards International School and Copenhagen International School, although the latter are going to relocate to new premises that are under construction in the Nordhavn district of Copenhagen. Gentofte Studenterkursus offers a two-year programme.

Notable people

Lars Ulrich - Drummer of Metallica
King Haakon VII - Prince of Denmark/King of Norway

Parks and open spaces

The most important parks are Charlottenlund Beach Park, Hellerup Beach Park, Bernstorff Park.

Natural habitats are found at Gentofte Sø, a huge lake with many birds on it, Ermelunden in Jægersborg and Gammelmose in Vangede, Øregård Park (or Øregård Museum's Garden) with a lake, benches and also a playground. A small section of Jægersborg Dyrehave also extends into the municipality, while the rest, including the Dyrehavsbakken fun fair, is in Lyngby-Taarbæk.

Twin towns – sister cities

Gentofte is twinned with:

SWE Halmstad, Sweden
FIN Hanko, Finland
GRL Sermersooq, Greenland
NOR Stord, Norway

References

Municipal statistics: NetBorger Kommunefakta, delivered from KMD aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)
Municipal mergers and neighbors: Eniro new municipalities map
Demography: Statistical Yearbook of Copenhagen.

References

[https://m.statbank.dk/TableInfo/BY2?lang=en BY2: Population 1. January by municipalities] The Mobile Statbank from [[Statistics Denmark]]
"Venskabsbyer". Gentofte Kommune.

Wikipedia Source

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