Sorgenfri Cemetery (
Danish
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. Sorgenfri Kirkegård) is a municipal cemetery operated by
Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality
Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality (occasionally spelled Lyngby-Tårbæk) is a municipality (Danish, '' kommune'') in the Capital Region of Denmark near Copenhagen on the eastern coast of the island of Zealand (Danish: ''Sjælland''). It is part of the ...
in
Sorgenfri
Sorgenfri (lit. "free of sorrow", like Sans Souci) is a neighbourhood in Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality in Greater Copenhagen lying just north of Kongens Lyngby.
The neighbourhood is enclosed between the landmarks of a forest with Lyngby Åmose, M ...
in the northern suburbs of
Copenhagen
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History
The cemetery was established in 1903. It has later been expanded several times.
Description
The main entrance to the oldest section of the cemetery is located at Lottenborgvej, just west of
Lottenborg Inn. Just inside the cemetery is a chapel from 1905. In front of the chapel is a statue of a mourning woman. It was created by the sculptor
Olga Wagner
Olga Rosalie Aloisa Wagner née Packness (1873–1963) was a Danish painter and sculptor. After specializing in painting at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, she was trained as a sculptor by her husband Siegfried. She worked together with him ...
. Together with her husband, the sculptor Siegfried Wagnerm she lived in a house across the street from the cemetery entrance.
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Cemeteries in Copenhagen
1903 establishments in Denmark
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