Vestre Cemetery

Vestre Cemetery

Vestre Cemetery (Danish, "Vestre Kirkegård") is located in a large park setting in the Kongens Enghave section of Copenhagen, Denmark. It was dedicated on All Saints Day ("Alle Helgens Day"), 1870.

The large cemetery is beautifully landscaped, and is a popular place for people to take a stroll, and look at the old graves and monuments. It is located southwest of the city center, between the Enghave, Sydhavn, Sjælør and Valby train stations on Copenhagen's S-train system, and is near the Carlsberg Breweries.

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

Among the notables interred here are political and business leaders, philosophers, artists, and musicians:

* Herman Bang (1857-1912), writer
* Vilhelm Buhl (1881-1954), political leader, Social Democrat Prime Minister
* Carl Nielsen (1865-1931), composer
* Hans Christian Hansen (1906-1960), political leader, Social Democrat Prime Minister
* Hans Hedtoft (1903-1955), political leader, Social Democrat
* Per Hækkerup (1915-1979), political leader, Social Democrat
* Thad Jones (1923-1986), American jazz trumpeter
* Viggo Kampmann (1910-1975), political leader, Social Democrat Prime Minister
* Jens Otto Krag (1914-1978), political leader, Social Democrat Prime Minister
* Asta Nielsen (1881-1972), film actress
* Julius Petersen (1839-1910), mathematician
* Knud Rasmussen (1879-1933), polar explorer and anthropologist
* Thorvald Stauning (1873-1942), political leader, first Social Democrat Prime Minister of Denmark
* Lauritz Tuxen (1853-1927), sculptor, painter
* Liva Weel (1897-1952), singer, actress
* Kristian Zahrtmann (1843-1917), painter

ee also

* List of famous cemeteries

External links

* [http://www.kbh-kirkegaarde.kk.dk/default.asp?id=1 Copenhagen's cemeteries main site (in Danish only)]


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