Raadvad, or Rådvad is a neighbourhood in the Lyngby-Taarbæk

Lyngby-Taarbæk

Lyngby-Taarbæk Kommune is a municipality in Region Hovedstaden near Copenhagen on the east coast of the island of Zealand in eastern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 39 km², and has a total population of 51,449 . Its mayor as of 2010 is Søren P...

 municipality, by the Mølleåen, in the middle of the Dyrehaven. It was originally a small industrial town, built around a waterwork, the Raadvad Mølle.

In Raadvad today is a hostel

Hostel

Hostels provide budget oriented, sociable accommodation where guests can rent a bed, usually a bunk bed, in a dormitory and share a bathroom, lounge and sometimes a kitchen. Rooms can be mixed or single-sex, although private rooms may also be available...

 and a restaurant, Raadvad Kro.

People connected to Raadvad are the designer Georg Jensen

Georg Jensen

Georg Arthur Jensen was a Danish silversmith.Born in 1866, Jensen was the son of a knife grinder in the town of Raadvad just to the north of Copenhagen. Jensen began his training in goldsmithing at the age of 14 in Copenhagen...

, the painter Axel Lind, the historian Svend Aage Larsen and the early feminist activist Andrea Kibenich.

The Raadvad factory

The place has given its name to the Raadvad company, which was founded in 1758 with the name Raadvaddams Fabrikker. The company produces mostly kitchen equipment, and is well know in Denmark for its knives.
After the First World War, it changed name to Raadvads Knivfabrikker and, for a period, it produced exclusively knives and bread-cutters. In the 1970's, the company moved to Brønderslev

Brønderslev

Brønderslev is a town with a population of 11,840 . It is the municipal seat of Brønderslev municipality, Vendsyssel in Region Nordjylland, the northernmost part of the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark....

, and is now a part of the Fiskars group.

See also

• Bondebyen
  Bondebyen
  Bondebyen is a historical neighbourhood of Kongens Lyngby.It is considered the best-preserved country town of the Copenhagen area, albeit it is now in the middle of the heavily urbanized Lyngby-Taarbæk municipality....
  
  , a similar neighbourhood, also in the same municipality, but of agricultural, rather than industrial, origin, and (nowadays) much more central