Himmelev is an area in the city of Roskilde

Roskilde

Roskilde is the main city in Roskilde Municipality, Denmark on the island of Zealand. It is an ancient city, dating from the Viking Age and is a member of the Most Ancient European Towns Network....

 in Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

. It contains primarily parcel houses, but one of the three colleges in Roskilde, Himmelev Gymnasium, is also located there.

The area is largely residential, however, industry includes a factory for Stryhns pate. Sports facilities consist of a sports centre located next to Himmelev Gymnasium with six soccer pitches and indoor facilities for eight badminton

Badminton

Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...

 courts and a court for handball

Team handball

Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...

, five-a-side football and other sports.

Famous people

• Frederik Schmidt
  Frederik Schmidt
  Frederik Schmidt was a Danish-Norwegian priest, politician, doctor of theology, poet and diarist.-Biography:Schmidt was born in Asminderød, Denmark as the son of Christen Schmidt and Petronelle S. Lemmich . His parents were of Norwegian descent, and they moved to Norway as his father became...
  
   - parish priest from 1820 to 1840
• Kim Milton - soccer referee
• Simon Juul - comedian