Birkerød

Birkerød (Danish pronunciation: [ˈbiɐ̯ɡəʀøːˀð]) is a town and was a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Frederiksborg County on the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in eastern Denmark. The municipality covered an area of 34 km², and had a total population of 21,930 (2005). Originally Birkerød consisted of eight individual villages (Birkerød, Kajerød, Bistrup, Ravnsnæs, Isterød, Høsterkøb, Sandbjerg and Ubberød) and did so until the 1940s when the construction of villa neighborhoods slowly erased the village borders and formed one town. Despite being individual villages, they shared the same church, Birkerød Kirke (Birkerød church), since the 12th century. This made Birkerød the "capital" of the parish and it was also here the railroad...