Borups Allé

The 3.2 km long street runs from Jagtvej at Nuuks Plads in the southeast to Bellahøj in the northwest.

Just before Hulgårdsvej, part of Ring 2, Borups Allé is joined by Bispeengbuen, an elevated road section that connects it to Åboulevard-Ågade and H. C. Andersens Boulevard in the city centre.

The initial part of the street passes below the elevated Bispeengbuen viaduct and Ringbanen S-train line.

[1] The street then passes through Nordvest on its way to Bellahøj in Brønshøj where it turns into Hareskovvej after Frederikssundsvej and shortly thereafter the Hillerød Motorway at Utterslev Mose.

It received its current name following the Conservative politician Ludvig Christian Borup's unexpected death on 18 January 1903, just one week after he had participated in the inauguration of the new Copenhagen City Hall.

[2] In the early 1920s te situation had dramatically changed with increasing housing shortage and many large residential projects were built over the following decades.

Kay Fisker's Neoclassical Hornbækhus from 1923 is one of the finest examples of the large residential blocks that were built in Copenhagen in the 1920s.

[8] The development consists of eight residential blocks surrounding a sports ground with facilities for soccer, tennis and a running course which is turned into a 400-metre ice skating circuit in winter.

They are arranged according to strictly symmetrical plans centred on an axis with various urban spaces and landscape elements that run from the top of the green Bellahøj Hill to Gandhis Plæne at Borups Allé.

Bellahøj Swimming Stadium is located at the southwestern corner of Borups Allé and Frederikssundsvej.