Assistens Cemetery (Copenhagen)

The Assistẹnzfriedhof (Danish Assistẹns Kirkegård ) is a park-like cemetery in Copenhagen's Nørrebro. He developed over 250 years to culturally and historically valuable cemetery of the Danish capital. Personalities of European importance are buried here.

History

The cemetery was in 1760 before the northern gate ( Nørreport ) applied because the cemeteries were largely covered within the fortress walls. For the common people urban grave spaces were prohibitive. The parishes affected revealed the increased demand with so-called assistant cemeteries (after the French assistance help, temporary help ). In Denmark, there is a good dozen plants under this name (see also assistant cemetery Odense). Formation conditions and timing are fully comparable with the development in Germany, in Berlin read at the cemeteries before the Halle Gate and before the Oranienburger Tor.

At the Copenhagen assistance cemetery also wealthy citizens settled since the late 18th century burial. Early as 1800, he became a popular destination for picnics. 1813 prohibited the gravediggers to sell liquor to the trippers. Where the park character of the complex predominates, sunbathers are not an uncommon sight nowadays. Along the Friedshofmauer found on the Nørrebrogade May to October every Saturday Copenhagen's biggest flea market.

There is also a small Roman Catholic department and a Russian Orthodox.

Tombs of famous personalities

  • Kjeld Abell (1901-1961), writer
  • Nicolai Abildgaard (1743-1809), painter
  • Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875), writer
  • Christian Frederik Beck (1876-1954), landscape and architectural painter
  • Niels Bohr (1885-1962), physicist and Nobel laureate
  • Richard Boone (1930-1999), American jazz musician
  • Kenny Drew senior (1928-1993), American jazz pianist
  • Christoffer Wilhelm Eckerberg (1783-1853), painter
  • Heerup Henry (1907-1993), painter, sculptor
  • Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), founder of existentialism
  • Ebb Kløvedal Empire (1940-2005), writer
  • Christians Købke (1819-1848), painter
  • Friedrich Kuhlau (1786-1832), composer
  • Johan Nicolai Madvig (1804-1886), Classical philologist
  • Lauritz Melchior (1890-1973), opera singer
  • Poul Martin Møller (1794-1838), philosopher
  • Martin Andersen Nexø (1869-1954), writer
  • Hans Christian Ørsted (1777-1851), physicist and chemist
  • Carl Christian Rafn (1795-1864), archaeologist and philologist Norse
  • Rasmus Rask (1787-1832), philologist
  • Carl Andreas Reitzel (1789-1853), publisher
  • Jens August Schade (1903-1978), poet
  • Hans Scherfig (1905-1979), writer and painter
  • Peter von Scholten (1784-1854), raised as governor of the Danish West Indies in 1848, slavery
  • Peter Christian Skovgaard (1817-1875), painter
  • Viggo Stuckenberg (1863-1905), writer
  • Dan Turèll (1946-1993), writer
  • Georges Ulmer (1919-1989), composer, singer and Chansonist
  • Ben Webster (1909-1973), American jazz musician
  • John Wiedewelt (1731-1802), classicist sculptor, created many tombs of the cemetery
  • Natasja Saad (1974-2007), reggae, dancehall and hip hop musician

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Currently, a redesign of the site is planned. One-third of the total area to be transformed into a regular city park in 2020. Otherwise, the cemetery operation is guaranteed at least until the year 2150. At the northern tip of a strip will fall to the expansion of Metro Copenhagen victim: The station " Nørrebro Runddel " to be completed by 2018.

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