Nivå
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Fredensborg municipality
Fredensborg Kommune is a municipality in Region Hovedstaden . The municipality covers an area of 112 km2, and has a total population of 39,240...
on the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in Denmark
Denmark
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. Nivå is a residential town on the coast of the Øresund
Oresund
The Sound , is the strait that separates the Danish island Zealand from the southern Swedish province of Scania. Its width is just at the narrowest point between Helsingør, Denmark, and Helsingborg, Sweden...
. It has a stop on the Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
– Helsingør Kystbanen
Kystbanen
The Coast Line is a regional railway line between Helsingør and Copenhagen in Denmark. It was opened in 1897, and it is today the busiest railway line in Denmark...
rail line.
The town has a small shopping centre
Shopping mall
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which also includes a library
Library
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, a railway station, a marina
Marina
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and the Nivaagaards museum. The town possesses two schools; Centralskole and Niverødgaardskolen, whilst a golf course
Golf course
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lies to the West. Its landscape is varied and ranges from marshland to suburban habitations. 20% or more of the inhabitants have a foreign background.
Music
Nivå Musiklaug holds an annual festival at the Kalvehaven: many talented young musicians play. One of the performers playing at the 2006 event was Danish singer-songwriter Tobias Trier.Nivaagaards Malerisamling
Nivaagaards Malerisamling was opened by Johannes Whiskers in 1908. The house is situated in an extensive park and is full of different varieties of rhododendron.The museum houses art from the Italian and North European renaissance
Renaissance
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and the Dutch and Danish grotesque.
Nivaagaard Ringovns Teglværksmuseum
Nivaagaard Ringovn was opened in 1700 by Queen Louise, who established a small brickworks near the shore in Nivå. The workshop supplied brick to the royal buildings in CopenhagenCopenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
and Nordsjælland by 1720. Alfred Hage took over in 1862. In 1870, a circular fire house was constructed, based on plans by Friedrich Hoffmann
Friedrich Hoffmann
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. This was the beginning of the industrial revolution
Industrial Revolution
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in Northern Europe. The oven was used for 97 years up until 1967. The workshop closed in 1980, then re-opened as a museum.