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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.

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
  • (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
  • (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
  • (1935–1992), poet, choreographer and musician
  • Eva-Maria Wiehe (1919–2012), illustrator

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