The town cross Marker 11.

Lyngby

Danske Bank's rounded building was built in 1944-46 and 1959-64 in late-functionalistic style. It is meant to look like the town hall (see marker 13), but the facade is made of concrete and the roof of painted roofing felt. Magasin's building was built in international modernist style in 1961.

Lyngby Torv (Square) was created when a great new railway station was built in Lyngby in 1891 at the same location as the current one. Between the station and Lyngby High Street was a low-lying area called Feyerschou's meadow and belonged to the owners of the White Mansion. In 1917 Lyngby-Taarbæk had the opportunity to buy the area to build a town hall square. When the Buddingevej viaduct under the railway was built in 1920, Nordre Torvevej was constructed as a connection between Buddingevej and Lyngby High Street. This gave the square its characteristic triangular shape, which determined how the future (present) town hall was built.

Lyngby's town square in the 17th century was the open area of the school and the pond in front Lindegården where Peter Lund's vej is now. The town underwent large changes in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The enclosures in 1778 meant that farming changed from communal to individual so the old communal centre dropped out of use. A poor commission was established in 1802 and a school commission in 1814 meant that the town became centered around the parish, the parish priest and thus the vicarage. At the same time a new and fashionable town grew up along Kongevejen (the King’s Road) through Lyngby.

All of these changes meant that the area around Lyngby Church became the new centre of Lyngby. The city workhouse was also here until it was closed in 1890 and its residents were transferred to Stolpegården in Vangede. The so-called municipal building on the corner of Åstræde and Lyngby Kirkestræde (Church Street) was built in 1899 and housed the municipal offices until 1941 when the current town hall was inaugurated.

Lyngby centre started to move again in the 1860s. When the railway from Copenhagen to Helsingør (Elsinore) and Hillerød opened in 1864, the first station in Lyngby was built where the Temple is now located. The station was outside the town and Jernbanevej (Railway Road) formed a link between Lyngby High Street and Bondebyen (Farmerstown). The corner of Lyngby High Street and Jernbanevej gradually became the town centre. When Handelsbanken (Business Bank) opened here in 1935, just across from Lyngby Bank, a new town centre was created.

Lyngby Bank moved to the corner of Lyngby High Street and the Square in 1940 (where Nordea is noW), showing where progress was going. Handelsbanken followed In 1961 and moved to the opposite corner (where Danske Bank now is), the same year that Magasin opened on the third corner. The fourth corner is a house from 1929 that has been a hardware store ever since. This business is probably the oldest on the High Street.

Nordea’s wall carries a plaque commemorating Denmark's first street lights, even though the power plant was at the bank's original address on Jernbanevej (Railway Road). The baker Hamann had a private electricity plant here which from 1888 sold power to the municipality for 32 street lights on Lyngby High Street. Lyngby was possibly the first city in Europe to have electric streetlights. The city fathers of Paris requested information about how the electric lighting in Lyngby worked, when they wanted to introduce it in Paris.

However, because of many irregularities, Lyngby High Street reverted to gas lighting when Lyngby Gasworks opened in 1895.

Marker 12