Jægersborg Dyrehave
Dyrehaven is noted for its mixture of huge, ancient oak trees and large populations of red and fallow deer.
In July 2015, it was one of the three forests included in the UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed as Par force hunting landscape in North Zealand.
Dyrehaven is also the venue for the Hermitage road race (Eremitageløbet) and the yearly Hubertus hunt (Hubertusjagten) which is held on the first Sunday in November.
The ditch and bank can still be seen for a long stretch in the south-easterly part of the current park.
This style of hunting required a greater area of land for its practice, so Christian V increased the boundaries to include the fields up to the village of Stokkerup (the area known today as Eremitagesletten), as well as taking in the land that today is Jægersborg Hegn.
Originally this area was the fields of the village of Stokkerup, but was enclosed when Christian needed it for hunting with dogs.
From Hjortekær to the north and the east there is a row of chestnut trees that make up the boundaries of the plain.
This row of trees marked the northern extent of Dyrehaven until 1913, when the boundaries were extended north of Mølleåen.
The architect Jens Ferdinand Willumsen created spaces for about 4,000 sitting and 2,000 standing spectators, which made it possible to lower the ticket price to an accessible level.
The theatre survived up to 1949, and after a break of almost 50 years, the tradition was revived by Birgitte Price with an arrangement of Johan Ludvig Heiberg's Elverhøj in 1996 in a production supported by the Royal Danish Theatre, Lyngby-Taarbæk Kommune and Kulturby'96.
Legend states Kirsten was a pious woman, who, through her devotion, gave the spring curative powers, which made it a place of pilgrimage for the sick who would come to drink the water.
Visitor numbers consistently rose (the house had already achieved a good reputation as a restaurant by the end of the 19th century).
Fortunen (The Fortune) is a former ranger station on the King's hunting road to Dyrehaven, named after the Roman goddess of luck Fortuna.
The race always begins at Peter Liep's House and involves a break at the Hermitage Lodge.
[5] The tradition was revived in 1996 with a performance of Elverhøj and has continued since then with a production every two or three years, the latest being the play Ragnarok (2023) inspired by Nordic mythology and written by Kim Fupz Aakeson.
