Bagsværd
Bagsværd is a middle-class suburb located approximately 12 km northwest of central Copenhagen, in the Gladsaxe Municipality. Bagsværd houses the headquarters of Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk and biotechnology company Novonesis, as well as the Baltic and International Maritime Council.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Suburb
- Description: suburb of Copenhagen
- Also known as: “Bagsvaerd”
- Postal code: 2880
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bagsværd Church and Bagsværd railway station.
Bagsværd Church
Church
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bagsværd Church is a Lutheran church in Bagsværd on the northern outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark. Designed in 1968 by Jørn Utzon, it was completed in 1976.
Bagsværd railway station
Railway stop
Photo: Urbanus, Public domain.
Bagsværd station is a suburban rail railway station serving the suburb of Bagsværd northwest of Copenhagen, Denmark. The station is located in the central part of the suburb a short distance from its main artery Bagsværd Hovedgade.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gladsaxe and Northern suburbs.
Northern suburbs
Photo: Guillaume Baviere, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Northern suburbs is a green suburban district north of Copenhagen. The ghetto of the wealthy, the Whiskey belt; the nicknames are many, and the Northern suburbs is indeed home to most of the city's well-off population, but to casual visitors the difference may be subtle, due to the high income equality of Denmark and heavy taxation of the highest earners.
Hareskovby
Village
Hareskovby, or Hareskov By, is a small suburb to Copenhagen, Denmark, located just south and west of Hareskoven, one of the largest forested areas in the city's northern suburbs. Hareskovby is situated 3 km west of Bagsværd.
Bagsværd
- Category: locality
- Location: Gladsaxe Municipality, Capital Region, Denmark, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.75839° or 55° 45′ 30″ northLongitude
12.45731° or 12° 27′ 26″ eastElevation
27 metres (89 feet)United Nations Location Code
DK BGSOpen location code
9F7JQF54+9WOpenStreetMap ID
node 288674041OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
2624388Wikidata ID
Q2509805
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Welsh—“Bagsværd” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Багсвэрд”
- Bulgarian: “Багсверт”
- Catalan: “Bagsværd”
- Czech: “Bagsværd”
- Danish: “Bagsværd”
- Dutch: “Bagsværd”
- Faroese: “Bagsværd”
- French: “Bagsværd”
- Galician: “Bagsværd”
- German: “Bagsværd”
- Icelandic: “Bagsværd”
- Kalaallisut: “Bagsværd”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bagsværd”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bagsværd”
- Norwegian: “Bagsværd”
- Polish: “Bagsværd”
- Russian: “Багсвэрд”
- Swedish: “Bagsværd”
- Ukrainian: “Багсверд”
- Welsh: “Bagsværd”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Novo Nordisks petanquebane mellem bygning 9Q og 9R and Bagsværd Vægtløftnings Klub.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Bagsværd”. Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.