Garrison Cemetery (

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: Garnisons Kirkegård) is a cemetery in

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. It was inaugurated in 1671 on a site just outside the Eastern City Gate, as a military cemetery complementing the naval

Holmens Cemetery Holmen Cemetery ( Danish: Holmens Kirkegård) is the oldest cemetery still in use in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was first located next to the naval Church of Holmen in the city centre but relocated to its current site on Dag Hammarskjölds Allé in t ...

which had been inaugurated a few years earlier on a neighbouring site. Later the cemetery was opened to civilian burials as well. Garrison Cemetery is an independent cemetery, managed by the parochial church council, placed under the army's highest authority.

History

Originally named ''Soldaterkirkegården'' (Soldiers' Cemetery), Garrison Cemetery was founded by a decree from King Frederick III and laid out in 1664 on a site outside the Bastioned Fortifications, next to the main road leading in and out of the Eastern City Gate and opposite the naval

which was laid out around the same time. Burials began the same year but the site, former marshland, was rather unsuitable for the purpose since ground water levels made it hard to bury the bodies in sufficiently deep grounds. In 1671, some improvements were made when the site was enclosed by pallisades and ditches and the cemetery was officially inaugurated on 13 July 1671. During the first decades, the cemetery remained relatively little used. In 1706, the Garrison Church was built on Sankt Annæ Plads. and in 1723 the ''Soldiers' Cemetery'' received its current name. In 1711, Copenhagen was struck by an outbreak of plague which killed an estimated 23,000 citizens. In a move to control disease, the authorities provided that all victims of the plague, within 24 hours and without a ceremony, had to be buried at Garrison Cemetery or a Municipal Plague Cemetery which was set up next to it. In 1720, Garrison Cemetery was officially opened to civilian burials. The cemetery was neglected and gradually fell into disrepair. In 1812 it was renovated and from then on began to attract more prominent citizens.

Garrison Cemetery today

One of the many characteristics of the cemetery, are the many old graves, still owned by families, and war-monuments of fallen in the wars 1848–1850 and 1864.

Interments

* Niels Andersen (1835–1911) * Christian Henrik Arendrup * Erni Arneson * Ferdinand Bauditz * Gustav Bauditz * Peter Bauditz * Sten Baadsgaard * Hans Bendix * Carl Bernhard *

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* Fredbjørn Bjørnsson * Nicolai Gottlieb Blædel * Caspar Leuning Borch *

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* Caspar Johannes Boye * Else Brems * Mogens Brems *

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Georg Carstensen Johan Bernhard Georg Carstensen (31 August 1812 – 4 January 1857) was one of the developers of Tivoli Gardens and a Danish army officer. He spent most of his childhood in the Near East. He travelled widely and had a career in the military Royal ...

* Georg Christensen * Inger Christensen * Walter Christmas * Flemming Dahl * Benthe Frederikke Rafsted Dannemand * John Davidsen * Anton Dorph * Frederik Dreyer * Ernst Eberlein * William Falck * J. S. Fibiger * Johannes Fibiger * J. F. Fischer * Preben Fjederholt * John Frandsen * Paul René Gauguin * Johannes Grenness * Signi Grenness * Barbara Gress * Hans Hansen * N. C. Hansen * Varvara Hasselbalch * Jens Hecht-Johansen * Cai Hegermann-Lindencrone * Eva Heramb *

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* Gustav Frederik Holm * F. C. Holstein * Kirsten Hüttemeier * Jesper Høm * Kirsten Høm * H. E. Hørring *

Kræsten Iversen Kristen "Kræsten" Iversen (, 26 January 1886 - 9 August 1955) was a Danish artist who is remembered both for his paintings and his painted glass windows. He was a member of the Bornholm school of painters and a professor at the Royal Danish Acad ...

* Johannes W. Jacobsen * Palle Jacobsen * Holger Jensen * Jørn Jeppesen * Tjek Jerne *

Anton Eduard Kieldrup Anton Eduard Kieldrup (16 February 1826, Haderslev – 22 May 1869, Copenhagen) was a Danish landscape painter. Biography His father was a sailing master who later became the proprietor of a leasehold estate.

* Tove Kjarval * Ove Krak * Thorvald Krak * Lili Lani *

Buster Larsen Axel Landing Larsen known as Buster Larsen (1 September 1920 – 18 December 1993), was a Danish stage, film and TV actor. He had his stage debut on Nørrebros Theater in 1932 aged 12, and his film debut in 1933. Filmography * ''De blaa dre ...

* Gorm Lertoft *

Otto Liebe Carl Julius Otto Liebe (24 May 1860 – 21 March 1929) was a Danish jurist who served as Prime Minister of Denmark from 30 March 1920 to 5 April 1920. Liebe was appointed prime minister after King Christian X had dismissed Carl Theodor Zah ...

* Axel Liebmann * Nanna Liebmann * Albert Luther * Vilhelm Herman Oluf Madsen *

Rasmus Malling-Hansen Hans Rasmus Johan Malling-Hansen (5 September 1835 – 27 September 1890) was a Danish inventor, minister and principal at the Royal Institute for the Deaf. He is famous for inventing the first commercially produced typewriter. Early car ...

* Kristian Mantzius * Einer Mellerup *

Christian de Meza Christian Julius de Meza (14 January 1792 – 16 September 1865) was the commander of the Danish Army during the 1864 Second Schleswig War. De Meza was responsible for the withdrawal of the Danish army from the Danevirke, an event which shocked th ...

* Louis Moe * N. C. Monberg * Karin Monk * Gunnar Møller * Johan Waldemar Neergaard * Carl Neumann * Henry Nielsen * Jakob Nielsen * Orson Nielsen * H. G. Olrik *

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* Hortense Panum *

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* Holger Pedersen * Jens Louis Petersen * Constantin Philipsen * Mie Philipsen * Preben Philipsen * Axel Preisler * Børge Ralov *

Kirsten Ralov Kirsten Ralov (26 March 1922 – 30 May 1999) was a Danish ballerina. She was born to Kai and Kaja Gnatt, née Olsen, a family of dancers living in Baden, Austria. Kirsten's mother encouraged her, and her brother Poul, to train as dancers. She e ...

* Edvard Rambusch * Kirsten Rolffes * Thomas Rosenberg * Tutta Rosenberg *

Olaf Rye Olaf Rye (16 November 1791 – 6 July 1849) was a Norwegian-Danish military officer. He died in battle during the First Schleswig War and is considered to have been a Danish war hero. Biography Olaf Rye was born at Bø in Telemark, Norway. ...

* Sophus Schack * Ole Scherfig *

August Schiøtt Heinrich August Georg Schiøtt (17 December 1823 – 25 June 1895) was a Danish portrait painter. Biography August Schiøtt was born in Helsingør, Denmark. He was the son of Heinrich Erpecum Schiøtt and Anna Sophie Marie Fleron. His father w ...

* Alfred Schmidt * Svenn Seehusen * Jørgen Selchau * Flemming Skov * Jørgen Sperling * C. F. Sørensen * August Saabye * Hans Nicolai Thestrup * Knud Thestrup * C. F. Thomsen * Christian Frederik Thorin * Carl Thrane * A. F. Tscherning * Mona Vangsaae * Jens Vige * Emilie Walbom * Soffy Walleen *

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The cemetery contains one Commonwealth war grave of

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, a Danish officer of the British Royal Army Service Corps.
CWGC Casualty Record. Danish-born British Army Brigadier Percy Hansen, a

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recipient, is also buried here.

References

External links

Official website

CWGC: Copenhagen (Garnisons) Cemetery
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