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Folehaveskoven, or Folehave Skov, is a forest in Horsholm on the northern outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is part of a complex of smaller woodlands which also comprises Rungsted Hegn to the north, Deputatvang and oster Sandbjerg to the south. It is bisected by the east-west running Folehavevej and is to the east bounded by the Coast Line. The forest used to belong to Hirschholm Palace. The estate comprised some 60 fishing ponds which supplied the royal household with freshwater fish. One of them was Kongens Dam King's Pond" which according to records from 1751 could take 1,000 carps karper and 3,000 Crucian carps karusser.

The pond was drained in the 1780s. Golehaven consists mainly of Beech trees. The forest covers an undulating terrain with many boggy depressions.Friese's Meadow in the northeastern section was recreated in 1995. Folehaveskoven contains some 60 prehistoric monuments. Most are well-preserved burial mounds from the Bronze Age c. 1000 BC. These mounds are located in small groups in a two kilometre wide band along the coast.

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