Sorø Old Cemetery ( Danish: Sorø Gamle Kirkegård), owned by Sorø Academy, is one of the oldest cemeteries still in use in

Denmark Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous a ...

History

It opened in connection with the establishment of

Sorø Abbey Sorø Abbey was the preeminent and wealthiest monastic house in all of Denmark during the Middle Ages. It was located in the town of Sorø in central Zealand. After Denmark became Lutheran in 1536, the abbey was confiscated by the Crown. The ...

in the second half of the 12th century. The cemetery was expanded to four times its original size in the beginning of the 19th century. It was refurbished in 1940–1944.

Burials

* Thøger Binneballe (1818–1900),architect active in Norway * Jacob Hornemann Bredsdorff (1799–1841), polymath, natural scientist, linguist * Bartholomæus Hoff (1840–1912), rector * Bernhard Severin Ingemann * Lucie Ingemann * Carl Emil Kiellerup * Frederik Martin * Christian Molbech * Carl Emil Mundt * Siegfred Neuhaus (1879–1955), painter * Hans Palludan Rasmussen * Anna Sarauw * Andreas Schytte * Christian Ludvig Stemann * Poul Hagerup Tregder * Hans Ussing * Henrik Ussing * Palle Wodschow

References

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