The Jewish Northern Cemetery in Nørrebro was formerly the principal Jewish cemetery in

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. It has an area of 13,500 square metres and contains some 5,500 burials.

History

The Jewish congregation in Copenhagen purchased a 900 square metre site outside the city for use as a burial site in the early 1690s. The oldest burial in the cemetery is from 1694. Further acquisitions of land had brought the cemetery up to its current size by 1854 but it was still passed out of use when a new Jewish cemetery opened in connection with the new

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Today

The brick wall which today surrounds the cemetery on three sides, along Møllegade, Guldbergsgade and Birkegade, was built in 1873 to a design by Vilhelm Tvede. The entrance is on Møllegade. The cemetery was listed in 1983.

Burials

* David Baruch Adler, broker * Hanna Adler, educator * Joel Ballin, engraver * Samuel Jacob Ballin, physician * Sophus Berendsen, industrialist *

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, book dealer * Jacob Herman Bing, industrialist *

Meyer Herman Bing Meyer Herman Bing (4 June 1807 – 15 September 1883) was a Danish businessman. He was a co-founder of Bing & Grøndahl. Early life and education Bing was born in Copenhagen, the son of bookseller Herman Jacob Bing (1776–1844) and Sara Meyer (1 ...

, industrialist * Simon Aron Eibeschütz, philanthropist * Liepmann Fraenckel, portrait painter * David Halberstadt, merchant * Ludvig Heckscher, lawyer *

Marie Henriques Marie Henriques (26 June 1866 – 12 January 1944) was a Danish painter who created landscapes, figure paintings and portraits, initially in the Realist style but increasingly under the influence of Impressionism. She also painted watercolours of ...

, painter *

Martin Henriques Marcus Ruben Henriques, commonly known as Martin (R.) Henriques (26 December 1825 – 25 June 1912) was a Jewish-Danish businessman. He was the father of the musician and editor Robert Henriques and the painter Marie Henriques. Early life and ca ...

, banker * Nathan Henriques, painter * Sally Henriques, painter * Samuel Henriques, painter * Isaac W. Heyman, businessman * Samuel Jacobi, physician * Ahron Jacobson, engraver *

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, ædelstenskærer * David Ahron Jacobson, engraver * Salomon Ahron Jacobson, engraver * Isidor Kalckar, painter * Israel Levin, linguist * Moritz Levy, national bank manager * Moritz G. Melchior, merchant * Moses Melchior, merchant * Nathan Melchior, eye surgeon * Moses Mendel, printer * Hartvig Philip Rée, merchant *

Salomon Soldin Salomon Soldin (15 March 1774 - 27 November 1837) was a Jewish-Danish bookseller, publisher, editor, writer and translator. Early life and background Soldin was born into a Jewish family in Copenhagenm the son of Israel Isak Soldin, a merchant, a ...

, book dealer * Arnold Wallick, stage painter *

Abraham Wolff Abraham Alexander Wolff ( he, אברהם אלכסנדר וולף; 29 April 1801 – 3 December 1891) was the chief rabbi of Denmark and translator of the Torah into Danish. Wolff was born in Darmstadt, Hesse-Darmstadt, to the merchant Alexande ...

, Chief Rabbi

Cultural depictions

Music

The Jewish Northern Cemetery is the subject of an instrumental song, "The Jewish Cemetery on Møllegade", by

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Image gallery

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References

External links

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