Farum Municipality

Farum municipality [ fɑ ʀom ː ] was until December 2006 a Danish municipality in the former Frederiksborg Amt on the main island of Zealand. Since January 2007 she is with the former municipality Værløse part of the newly formed Furesø municipality. Farum municipality was in the northern suburban area of the Danish capital Copenhagen. She was 23 km ² and had 18 737 inhabitants ( 2006).

Farum is the end of an S -Bahn line through which you can reach in 32 minutes to downtown Copenhagen.

Farum was also known by the urban development project Farum Midtpunkt that should allow for a new form of coexistence. The combination of residential and community spaces, a unifying architecture, large-scale game and parking areas as well as the participation of the residents in the management should form their own community Farum Midtpunkt. In recent years, the neighborhood came by an accumulation of social problems, not least because a high proportion of migrants, in the critique.

The then Mayor Peter Brixtofte stood in 2002 at the center of a financial scandal. The construction of large sporting facilities and an uninhibited representation needs Farum was borrowed heavily after his term.

The Danish football first division side FC Nordsjælland is headquartered in Farum Farum BK since had risen before the restructuring in the first division.