Our Saviour's Cemetery, Copenhagen

Our Saviour's Cemetery (Danish: Vor Frelsers Kirkegård) is located at the corner of Amagerbrogade and Prags Boulevard in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Our Saviour's Cemetery
View from the centre of the cemetery, looking north
Details
Established1790
Location
Copenhagen
CountryDenmark
Coordinates55°39′54″N 12°36′3″E
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History

Our Saviour's Church was originally surrounded by a graveyard.

The current Our Saviour's Cemetery was established in 1790 since the existing cemeteries in Christianshavn were no longer able to cope with the number of burials. In 1853, as a consequence of the 1853 Copenhagen Cholera Outbreak, all inner city burials were prohibited.[1]

Design

The brick wall that surrounds the cemetery dates from 1927. A new administration building was inaugurated in 2011. The cemetery was refurbished in 2015. A cobbled area surrounded by benches was established in the centre of the cemetery where its two principal avenues cross each other.

Burials
  • Ole Brask (1935–2009), photographer
  • Edel Bærskog (1920–2015), painter
  • Ole Dixon (1935–1975), jazz musician
  • Else Frölich (1880–1960), film actress,
  • Jørgen Kiil, film actor
  • Jesper Klein (1944–2001), actor and entertainer
  • Henry Lohmann (1924–1967), actor
  • Lykke Nielsen (1946–2001), film actress
  • Svend Pri (1946–1983), badminton player
  • Henrik Sandberg (1919–1993), film producer
  • Christian Wilhelm Schultz-Lorentzen
  • Gunnar Strømvad (1908–1972), actor
  • Paul Valjean (1935–1992), poet, choreographer and musician
  • Eva-Maria Wiehe (1919–2012), illustrator

References
  1. "Vor Frelsers Kirkegård" (in Danish). Vor Frelsers Sogn. Archived from the original on 31 July 2010. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
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