Our Saviour's Cemetery, Copenhagen
View from the centre of the cemetery, looking north | |
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Established | 1790 |
Location | Copenhagen |
Country | Denmark |
Coordinates | 55°39′54″N 12°36′3″E / 55.66500°N 12.60083°E |
Size | ? |
Our Saviour's Cemetery (Danish: Vor Frelsers Kirkegård) is located at the cornerner of Amagerbrogade and Prags Boulevard in Copenhagen, Denmark.
History
Our Saviour's Church was originally surrounded by a graveyard.
The current Our Saviour's Cemetery was established in 1790 since ce the existing cemeteries in Christianshavn were no longerable to cope with the number of burials. In 1853, as a consequence pf the 1853 Copenhagen Cholera Outbreak, all inner city burials were prohibited.[1]
Design
The brick wall that surrounds the cemetery is from 1927. A new administration building was inaugurated in 2011. The cemetery was refurbished in 2015. A cobbled area surrounded by benches was estaglished in the centre of the cemetery where its two principal aveneues crosses each other.
Burials
- Ole Brask (1935-2009), photographer
- Edel Bærskog (1920-2015), painter
- Ole Dixon (1935-1975), jazz musician
- Else Frölich (1880-1960)m actress,
- Jørgen Kiilm actor
- Jesper Klein (1944-2001), actor and entertainer
- Henry Lohmann (1924-1967), actor
- Lykke Nielsen (1946-2001)m actress
- Svend Pri (1946-1983), badminton player
- Henrik Sandberg (1919-1993), film producer
- C.W. Schultz-Lorentzen
- Gunnar Strømvad (1908-1972), actor
- Paul Valjean (1935-1992), poet, correographer and musician
- Eva-Maria Wie* he (1919-2012), illustrator
References
- ↑ "Vor Frelsers Kirkegård" (in Danish). Vor Frelsers Sogn. Retrieved 30 June 2018.