Sundby

Sundby is a neighbourhood on Amager in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is frequently additionally called Sundbyerne since a difference is traditionally made among Sundbyvester and Sundbyoster, located on each their side of Amagerbrogade. Sundbyvester and Sundbyoster had been in the beginning two villages known from about 1100. They consisting of two rows of farmsteads extending from Amager Road, now Amagerbrogade, kind of in which cutting-edge Oresundsvej and Englandsvej are discovered nowadays, separating their farm land to the south from their pastures to the north.

In the second one 1/2 of the 18th century, the location modified person while sailors, craftsmen and employees started to settle in the network which spread along the main avenue. Administratively, Sundby belonged to the civil parish of Tårnby. In 1793, the northnmost a part of the location, Amagerbro, turned into transferred to Copenhagen whose so-called Demarcation Line, which heavily limited construction within a certain distance from the metropolis walls, kept development to a minimum.