Folkets Park (Danish for "People's park") is a small park in

Nørrebro Nørrebro (, ) is one of the 10 official districts of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is northwest of the city centre, beyond the location of the old Northern Gate (''Nørreport''), which, until dismantled in 1856, was near the current Nørreport station ...

in Copenhagen, situated between

Griffenfeldsgade Griffenfeldsgade is a street in the Nørrebro district of Copenhagen, Denmark, running from Nørrebrogade in the northeast to Åboulevard on the border to Frederiksberg in the southwest from where it continues as H. C. Ørsteds Vej. The street has ...

and Stengade. The park was established by local residents in 1971, who also converted a disused building in the park into a community center, ''

Folkets Hus People's Houses (russian: Народный дом) were originally leisure and cultural centres built with the intention of making art and cultural appreciation available to the working classes. The first establishment of this type appeared in T ...

''. After intermittent attempts to clear the park, the City of Copenhagen accepted it as a park in 2008, and performed some renovation.

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