Our Saviour's Cemetery, Copenhagen

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Our Saviour's Cemetery
View from the centre of the cemetery, looking north

Details
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
Size	?
Website	Official website
Find a Grave	Our Saviour's Cemetery

Our Saviour's Cemetery (Danish: Vor Frelsers Kirkegård) is located at the corner 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 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^{[citation needed]}
Ole Dixon [Wikidata] (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 [Wikidata] (1946–2001), film actress
Svend Pri (1946–1983), badminton player
Henrik Sandberg (1919–1993), film producer
Christian Wilhelm Schultz-Lorentzen^{[citation needed]}
Gunnar Strømvad (1908–1972), actor
Paul Valjean [Wikidata] (1935–1992), poet, choreographer and musician
Eva-Maria Wiehe (1919–2012), illustrator^{[citation needed]}

References

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

External links

v t e Amager, Copenhagen
Administrative subdivisions	Copenhagen Municipality (Amager East, Amager West) Dragør Municipality Tårnby Municipality
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