Assistens Cemetery

Assistens Cemetery (Danish: Assistens Kirkegård) in Copenhagen, Denmark, is the burial place of many notable Danes, as well as an important green-space in the Nørrebro district. Established in 1760, the cemetery was originally a burial ground for the poor, laid out to relieve the crowded graveyards inside the city walls, but during the Golden Age, in the first half of the 19th century, it became fashionable, and many leading figures of the epoch, including Hans Christian Andersen, Søren Kierkegaard, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, and Christen Købke are buried here. Late in the 19th century, as Assistens Cemetery had itself become crowded, a number of new cemeteries were established around Copenhagen, including the Vestre Cemetery, but through the 20th century, it continued to attract notable people. Among the latter are the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr and a number of American jazz musicians who settled in Copenhagen during the 1950s and 1960s, including Ben Webster and Kenny Drew. An assistenskirkegård (meaning "assistance cemetery") is originally a generic term in Danish, used to refer to cemeteries which were laid out to assist existing burial sites, usually those located in urban settings in connection with churches, and therefore a number of cemeteries of the same name are found around Denmark. The cemetery is one of five now run by Copenhagen Municipality; t

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