Assistens Cemetery, Copenhagen, Copenhagen Region, Denmark

Assistens Cemetery, Copenhagen, Copenhagen Region, Denmark 

Burial ground, green oasis, cultural treasury. Welcome to Denmark’s best known cemetery, Assistens in Copenhagen, the final resting place of famous Danes, like fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen and philosopher Søren Kierkegaard.

For more than 250 years, the people of Copenhagen have buried their dead – known and unknown – at Assistens Kirkegård cemetery. Today the cemetery is one of the Nørrebro area’s most interesting and lush green oases, where both locals and visitors go for a stroll.

Assistens Kirkegård cemetery in Copenhagen exudes both big and small stories that represent the dead. Here, you will see thousands of gravestones of notable people from the last centuries of Danish history – Hans Christian Andersen and Søren Kierkegaard being the most famous.

But also the graves of people like physicists H. C. Ørsted and Niels Bohr and – closer to our own time – the poet Michael Strunge and singer Natasja Saad make Assistens an interesting place to visit.

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