Where to Stay in Holte, Capital Region of Denmark

Holte is one of the leafy northern districts of Copenhagen. It is best known as a green commuter town of lakes, woods, and detached houses gathered around Holte station, a settled district of Rudersdal Municipality that merged with the older villages of Søllerød and Øverød. Museums lie close by.

The open-air Frilandsmuseet, the arts centre at Gl. Holtegaard, and the local-history rooms of Mothsgården draw visitors out from the city, while the lakes and forests around the town give it a quiet, wooded character. It sits among parks and water.

Frilandsmuseet is the great draw of the district, an open-air museum where old farmhouses and cottages gathered from across Denmark stand among fields and woods. Brede Værk and the manor of Brede Hovedbygning preserve an old cloth works and its great house in the valley nearby, while Mothsgården and the wider Rudersdal Museer hold the local past. Art fills an old manor too.

The baroque grounds of Gl. Holtegaard now serve as an arts centre, and the parish churches of Holte Kirke and Bistrup Kirke, with the cars of Sommer's Automobile Museum, round out the sights around the town.

Holte grew out of older villages on the wooded country north of Copenhagen. Long before the suburb took shape, the parishes of Søllerød and Øverød worked the farms and fields among the lakes and woods of what is now Rudersdal Municipality, and an older settlement at Gammel Holte to the east predated the present town by several hundred years, so that the newer place was once set apart as Ny Holte to tell the two apart. Mills and works ran in the valleys.

In the wooded river valley nearby the cloth works of Brede Værk and its manor at Brede Hovedbygning grew into an industrial estate, one of the old water-powered works that lined the streams of this corner of Zealand. The railway made the modern town. When the northern line out of Copenhagen reached the district, a town centre gathered around Holte station, and the old farmland filled with the detached houses, parks, and gardens of a green commuter suburb.

Culture settled in the old houses. The baroque manor of Gl. Holtegaard became an arts centre, the farmhouses of the country were gathered into the open-air Frilandsmuseet, and Holte took its place as a wooded district of the Capital Region of Denmark on the northern edge of the capital.

Holte lies on the northern outskirts of Copenhagen, in eastern Denmark, on the island of Zealand, within Rudersdal Municipality. The district spreads among lakes and forests, its town centre gathered around Holte station and ringed by detached houses, parks, and woodland, with the merged villages of Søllerød and Øverød folded into it. The country is wooded and watered.

Roads and the northern railway run south into the heart of Copenhagen and out through the rest of the Capital Region of Denmark, of which the district forms the south-eastern part.

Holte has a mild lowland climate. Winters are grey and damp, with raw wind, frequent rain, and only light snow over the lakes and woods of Rudersdal Municipality, while the short days keep the parks and the forest quiet through the cold weeks. Summers turn warm and green.

The longer days bring mild warmth to the woods and the water around Holte, drawing walkers and day visitors out from Copenhagen. Rain falls across the whole year.

Holte sits on the northern railway out of Copenhagen. Frequent commuter trains run from the city centre to Holte station in well under an hour, the easiest way in for those without a car. Trains run often.

Drivers come on the roads that cross Rudersdal Municipality north of the capital, turning off toward the town and the lakes. Buses link the district to Søllerød, Øverød, and the neighbouring suburbs of the Capital Region of Denmark.