Kongens Lyngby

Kongens Lyngby
Neighbourhood
Lyngby Church
Lyngby Church
Kongens Lyngby is located in Capital Region
Kongens Lyngby
Kongens Lyngby
Coordinates: 55°46′30.0″N 12°30′07.0″E / 55.775000°N 12.501944°E / 55.775000; 12.501944
CountryDenmark
RegionCapital Region
MunicipalityLyngby-Taarbæk
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
2800

Kongens Lyngby ([ˈkʰʌŋŋ̍s ˈløŋˌpyˀ], Danish for "the King's Heather Town"; short form Lyngby) is the seat and commercial centre of Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality in the northern suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark. Lyngby Hovedgade is a busy shopping street and the site of a branch of Magasin du Nord as well as Lyngby Storcenter. The district is also home to several major companies, including COWI A/S, Bang & Olufsen, ICEpower a/s and Microsoft. The Technical University of Denmark relocated to Lyngby from central Copenhagen in the 1970s. Lyngby station is located on the Hillerød radial of Copenhagen's S-train network.