Havnehytten (The harbour hut) Marker 17.

Lyngby

When the vicar of Lyngby heard about the plans, he objected strongly to having the railroad between the church and the rectory so that he had to pass the rails every time he was going back and forth from the church.

The priest was the popular Grundtvigian preacher Peter Rørdam, who was a close friend of the Dowager Queen Caroline Amalie of Sorgenfri Castle. He hurried up to the queen and told her that the railroad would also have to go through her park. The Dowager Queen vetoed the railroad on the castle grounds. This meant that a costly dam had to be built through the easternmost part of Lyngby sø with a bridge over Mølleåen. This is how Lyngby Station came to lie west of the city, very inconvenient for the residents who therefore criticized their priest. The bit of Lyngby Sø, which was located on the east side of the dam, was named Little Lyngby Sø, but was at the also called "the priest's hole".

The citizens of Lyngby developed a more positive attitude to the embankment when a lakeside promenade was built in 1920 along the west side of the dam, giving people access to the lake. The materials for the promenade came from the excavation of Buddingevej viaduct under the railway. In the late 1950 the new highway bypassing Lyngby was built along the east side of the dam.

The small recreational area bridges, "Lyngby Port" and the restaurant Havnehytten ("Harbour cottage") was added and is now a very popular place with music entertainment in the summer. Lyngby Port burned down in 2003. The fire-engine could not pass through the tunnel to the lakeside promenade. Lyngby Port was rebuilt in 2004 with an extension for indoor seating.

Just after you pass the underpass to the lakeside promenade from Rustenborgvej you walk along the slipways where Baadfartens boats are pulled up in winter. Further along are Lyngby Canoe Club and Lyngby Rowing Club, and then you reach Havnehytten. A path leads across a footbridge over the Mooring Canal and you can walk along the south side of of Lyngby Sø to Nybro, and onwards along the north side, a loop of xx km.

Lyngby Canoe Club was founded in 1937 and the current clubhouse was built in 1967. There have previously been two both houses of wood on the ground.

Lyngby Rowing Club was founded in 1929. The current clubhouse was built in 1944 and later expanded.

Shortly after Lyngby Port you pass on a bridge over Mølleåen's outlet from Lyngby Sø. You may notice two vertical grooves of concrete. In the event of war planks could be placed between the grooves to block the lake outlet, so the water could be drained into the Fortress canal and further on to fill the moats of the Copenhagen fortifications.

The canal was built here in 1863 in order to provide the railway bridge with a solid base. The original drainage from Lyngby Sø was through the millpond further south, where there is now a swampy area.

Looking north you may see three tower blocks near Sorgenfri Station. They are 15 storeys high. At the north end of lake promenade Prinsessestien leads to the right under the railway into the Norwegian Forest, which is the westernmost part of Sorgenfri Castle Park. If, instead, you turn left, you can follow the path to the Frederiksdal. And if you continue straight ahead along the west side of the railroad, you reach Virum church path, which originally led from the village Virum across the fields down to Lyngby Church .

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