Valby Park

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Valby Park
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The perennials garden (staudehaven) in Valby Park.
Valby Park
Location Valby
Coordinates 55°38′30″N12°31′10″E / 55.64167°N 12.51944°E / 55.64167; 12.51944
Area62.4 hectares (154 acres) [1] [2]
Opened1 September 1939 (1939-09-01)
OpenAll year
DesignationProtected area (since 1966)

Valby Park (Danish : Valbyparken) is a park in Valby, Copenhagen. The park is situated south of Valby Sports Park, and west of Musikbyen facing Kalvebod Beach. The park is located between two Copenhagen Districts: Valby and Vesterbro/Kongens Enghave. Valby Park is Copenhagen's largest park [3] with an area of 64.2 ha. [1]

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It serves as the Copenhagen venue for the travelling Grøn Koncert festival.

History

The park is situated at the site of the former Valby Fælled ("Common"), which was used as landfill between 1913 and 1937. [1] It was converted to a park between 1937 and 1939, and opened to the public on 1 September 1939. [1] Due to fuel shortages during World War II, much of the park was dug up in 1941–42 to search for coke, though the park was re-established and expanded during 1944–52. [1]

The park was officially designated as a protected area on 3 May 1966. [2]

In connection with Copenhagen being the 1996 European City of Culture, 17 circular themed gardens were established in the park. [4]

Development

After Valbyparken's opening in 1939, the second stage was completed in 1952 .

In 1965, the Rosenhaven was laid out, remodeled in 1999, which is designed as a 140 meter diameter circular garden surrounded by clipped rosebushes. The rose garden contains approximately 12,000 roses [5] from many different rosarians.

From 1966 onwards, Valby Park was given protected status. [1]

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