Assistens Cemetery (Copenhagen)

The Assistens Cemetery (Danish: Assistens Kirkegård) is founded in 1757 (inaugurated 1760) and located in the Nørrebro section of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is sometimes called the Nørrebro Cemetery, and is a popular place for people to take a stroll, look at the old graves and monuments, and to have a picnic. A flea market operates along its walls every Saturday from May to October. The yellow walls of the cemetery, especially the one facing Nørrebrogade has in recent years become the target of many graffiti painters.

The cemetery is one of five run by Copenhagen Municipality. The other cemeteries are Vestre Cemetery, Brønshøj Cemetery, Sundby Cemetery, and Bispebjerg Cemetery.

Among the notables interred here are several African-American jazz musicians who made Copenhagen their home.

People buried at Assistens Cemetery

  • Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard (1743–1809), painter
  • Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875), writer
  • Christian Bohr (1855–1911), physician
  • Harald Bohr (1887–1951), mathematician and football player
  • Niels Bohr (1885–1962), scientist and Nobel Prize winner
  • Richard B. Boone (1930–1999), American jazz musician
  • Kenny Drew (1928–1993), American jazz pianist
  • Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783–1853), painter
  • Caspar Frederik Harsdorff (1735–1799), architect
  • Henry Heerup (1907–1993), painter, sculptor
  • Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855), existential philosopher
  • Christen Købke (1819–1848), painter
  • Lauritz Melchior (1890–1973), opera singer
  • Poul Martin Møller (1794–1838), philosopher, writer
  • Martin Andersen Nexø (1869–1954), novelist
  • Regine Olsen (1822–1904)
  • Hans Christian Ørsted (1777–1851), scientist
  • Rasmus Rask (1787–1832), scholar and philologist
  • Natasja Saad (1974–2007), rapper and reggae singer
  • Peter von Scholten (1784–1854), governor of the Danish West Indies, who emancipated the slaves there in 1848
  • P.C. Skovgaard (1817–1875), painter
  • Dan Turèll (1946–1993), writer
  • Georges Ulmer (1919–1989), composer, singer of French music
  • Frederik Vermehren, (1823–1910), painter
  • Eugen Warming (1841–1924), botanist
  • Ben Webster (1909–1973), American jazz musician
  • Johannes Wiedewelt (1731–1802), neoclassical sculptor, created many monuments at this cemetery

See also

  • List of famous cemeteries

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Yourik
25 October 2016
A park what is a cemetery - and the other way around. You will see people picknicking between legends as Niels Bohr, Søren Kirkegard and Hans Christian Andersen.
Shannon Coulson
13 March 2019
It's filled with trees making it a beautiful place to take in the fall colors as you walk around and study the tombstones of the notable Danes buried there (including Hans Christian Andersen).
David Heiser
19 June 2019
It’s a cemetery that’s actually one of the most beautiful green spaces in the city.
Andrea Scaramuccia
8 January 2024
Historical cemetery for the old Copenhagen, at the time it was outside the city rampants, and used when the small churchyards in the city could not host more Copenhageners! Famous and normal people hr
Yasmin V
24 April 2017
Go for a stroll in this beautiful park and cemetery. Danish people use it as a hang-out place, which is both weird and interesting.
Joe Cooper
21 May 2018
Great place for a walk. Kind of odd (as an American) to see people picnicking in a graveyard, but... still a nice stroll.
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