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.

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 [Wikidata] (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

External links

• Official website
• Our Saviour's Cemetery, Copenhagen at Find a Grave