"Find your way around Lyngby" is a simple form of orienteering. You can walk or run as you like. Many "Find your way around..." are in woodlands and parks. Others, like "Find your way around Lyngby" take you through historic sites in towns. See all the Find your way around... here. The route takes you to 20 markers. They are marked by purple circles on the map in the tour folder (in Danish). For each marker there is a picture, so you can identify that you are at the correct place. The picture and a description of each location is also found on the internet. The first marker is described below, and you will find links to the next marker at the bottom of each page. The tour is around 5 km along public roads and passages, if you choose the shortest route. Feel free to visit some markers one day, and other markers another day. Have an interesting and fun trip around Lyngby!	Lyngby
Pritzels factory Marker 1.

The factory building is a fine example of "the small town factory" with characteristic details preserved: the freestanding chimney from 1876, the hatch with the crane and weather cock with the date 1876, preserved from the previous building.

Pritzels Factory is located in Lyngby's oldest industrial site. Peter Tutein's estate was in this area since the 1700s, and was visited, among others, Mozart's widow Constance visited.

In 1866 lieutenant Sophus Pritzel started the machine factory and kept it until his death in 1909. As a manufacturer of textile machinery, he participated in the industry exhibitions in 1872 and 1888 and both times won prizes for his machines. One of his spinning machines from around 1870 is still operational and can be seen at Hjelholts Uldspinderi on Funen.

Sophus Pritzel had participated in the war in 1864, and it is said that he was the last Danish soldier who left the island Als. He swam away from the battle and was taken up by a gunboat.

Sophus Pritzel twice experienced that his factory burned down. After the first fire Sophus Pritzel built a new factory building that had the same dimensions as the current one. At the top floor JL Binder began his clothing factory in 1883. In 1891 Binder moved to Lyngby Hovedgade 4, where now a large office building is located.

Pritzels Factory burned for the second time in 1907, and Sophus Pritzel, now an elderly man, decided to restore the factory. The present building was completed in 1909, one year before Sophus Pritzel died. His son ACM Pritzel continued the tradition of cloth making, but concentrated on the production of canvas for paintings until 1930, when he sold the factory.

The insurance company Alm. Brand purchased the old factory complex to secure space to expand. Most of the complex was demolished, but the largest of the buildings and the old freestanding chimney was considered worthy of preservation. So Lyngby-Taarbęk municipality bought the building for renovation and new use. But years went by and the building was not kept up. In 2009 the building was bought by the company Unionkul the for renovation into office space. When it is completed, the ground floor will be a restaurant and the other floors wil be offices.

Marker 2