Fredensborg is a station town in North Zealand between Hillerød
and Helsingør with 8,769 inhabitants (2020), located in Fredensborg
Municipality in the Capital Region. Fredensborg Castle is located a
little west of the center and has named the whole city. The city has
a railway station, Fredensborg Station, which is located in the
middle of the city.
Fredensborg has, by virtue of Fredensborg
Castle, over time been visited by prominent politicians, popes,
princes and royals as well as athletes including Bill Clinton;
George W. Bush; FC Barcelona's football team when it was to play
against Brøndby IF in the UEFA Champions League; Pope John Paul II,
the Russian Tsar Alexander III and the English King Edward VII.
By plane
The nearest airport is Kastrup Airport.
By rail
There is a railway station here.
By car
Fredensborg is an
important road junction.
The castle town
In the middle of the 19th century, Fredensborg
consisted of a large part of country houses and housing for
pensioners and other people who had retired, but also had a number
of officials, traders and craftsmen, was the courthouse for Kronborg
østre Birk and Hellebæk Birk og bolig for the birch judge, had post
office, 2 inns and was polling station. In 1857 a courthouse and
detention center were built with offices for the birch judge and
arrests for 21 detainees, municipal school, secondary school,
payment schools, Queen Louise Children's Asylum (established 1865),
a 1866 built poverty and welfare institution (maximum occupancy
108), which was then merged with the Winterfeldt-Vossiske Hospital,
pharmacy, mission house (built 1893), Hegel's Recreation Home
(established 1891), was the polling station for Frederiksborg
County's 2nd Folketingskreds, had a post office (with 1 postmaster
and 1 clerk), telegraph and telephone station, 2 hotels and a
station on the Nordbanen (built in 1864). The town had no church of
its own, but used the castle church.
In 1801 Fredensborg had
443 inhabitants, in 1840 618 inhabitants, in 1860 758 inhabitants,
in 1870 776 inhabitants, in 1880 795 inhabitants.
Urban
development 1900-1960
In 1911, Fredensborg had 1,280 inhabitants,
of which 105 subsisted on agriculture, 340 on handicrafts and
industry, 202 on trade, 92 on transport, 482 on own funds. By 1911,
Asminderød had developed into a suburb and district in Fredensborg
with 459 inhabitants, of which 50 subsisted on agriculture, 160 on
crafts and industry, 76 on trade, 19 on transport and 70 on own
funds. The district had a church, rectory and school, inn and
sawmill. In 1916 the town had 1,320 inhabitants and was described as
"Villaby og Forretningsby". A savings bank was established in 1902,
the city had 3 hotels, gasworks, waterworks, grocery stores,
furniture factory, tobacco factory, post office, telegraph station.
In 1930, Fredensborg had 1,557 inhabitants, of which 89
subsisted on agriculture etc., 420 on crafts and industry, 244 on
trade and turnover, 94 on transport, 92 on intangible business, 227
on housework, 375 were out of business and 16 without information.
In the same year, Asminderød, which had then grown together with the
town, had 718 inhabitants, of which 141 subsisted on agriculture,
etc., 216 on handicrafts and industry, 47 on trade and turnover, 59
on transport, 45 on intellectual property, 49 on housework, 143 were
out of work and 13 without information.
In 1901 Fredensborg
had 930 inhabitants, in 1906 1,162 inhabitants, in 1911 1,280
inhabitants, in 1916 1,320 inhabitants, in 1921 1,448 inhabitants,
in 1925 1,499 inhabitants, in 1930 1,557 inhabitants, in 1935 1,810
inhabitants, in 1940 1,707 inhabitants, in 1945 1,832 inhabitants
and in 1950 2,006 inhabitants. In the same years, the population of
Asminderød, which quickly developed into a district in Fredensborg,
grew from 366 inhabitants in 1906 to 459 inhabitants in 1911, 463
inhabitants in 1916, 503 inhabitants in 1921, 713 inhabitants in
1930, 639 inhabitants in 1935, 758 inhabitants in 1940, 782
inhabitants in 1945 and 1,075 inhabitants in 1950. After that,
separate population figures were no longer calculated: in 1955
Fredensborg-Asminderød had 3,199 inhabitants and in 1960 3,448
inhabitants.
The development resulted in the establishment of an urban development committee for the Helsingør area in the early 1960s, which also included Asminderød-Grønholt Municipality. While Helsingør municipality, Tikøb Municipality and the Humlebæk area were treated separately, Asminderød and Fredensborg were treated as a separate urban development area with its own urban development plan. This directed the complete construction and development of Fredensborg and Asminderød as a single urban area. In 1963, the Fredensborg houses were built according to a joint project designed by Jørn Utzon.