Folehaveskoven
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Folehaveskoven, or Folehave Skov, is a forest in Hørsholm on the northern outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is part of a complex of smaller woodlands which also comprises Rungsted Hegn to the north, Deputatvang and Øster Sandbjerg to the south. It is bisected by the east–west running Folehavevej and is to the east bounded by the Coast Line.
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- Instance of
- forest
- Country
- Denmark
- Located in
- Rudersdal Municipality
- Area
- 265
- Elevation
- 30
- Image
- Folehaven bøge.jpg
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- Folehaven
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Ecology
- Landmarks
- Linstow's grave
- Prehistoric sites
- Recreational use
- See also
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Folehaveskoven, or Folehave Skov, is a forest in Hørsholm on the northern outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is part of a complex of smaller woodlands which also comprises Rungsted Hegn to the north, Deputatvang and Øster Sandbjerg to the south. It is bisected by the east–west running Folehavevej and is to the east bounded by the Coast Line.
==History== thumb|200px|left|Map detail showing Folehaven in c. 1816 thumb|200px|The King's Pond painted by Jean-Françoìs de Dompierre de Jonquières in c. 1999 The forest used to belong to Hirschholm Palace. The estate comprised some 60 fishing ponds which supplied the royal household with freshwater fish. One of them was Kongens Dam ("King's Pond") which according to records from 1751 could "take" 1,000 carps (karper) and 3,000 Crucian carps (karusser). The pond was drained in the 1780s.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Folehaveskoven” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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