Our Saviour's Cemetery, Copenhagen

Our Savuour's Cemetery
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 / 55.66500; 12.60083
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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

  1. ↑ "Vor Frelsers Kirkegård" (in Danish). Vor Frelsers Sogn. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
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