Jewish Northern Cemetery (Copenhagen)

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Jewish Northern Cemetery
File:Mosaisk Nordre Begravelsesplads 1.JPG
The gatehouse
Details
Established 1694
Location Nørrebro, Copenhagen
Country Denmark
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Type Jewish (closed)
Size 13,500
Number of graves 5,500

The Jewish Northern Cemetery in Nørrebro was formerly the principal Jewish cemetery in Copenhagen, Denmark. 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 Vestre Cemetery.[1]

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.[2]

Burials

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Buildings facing the cemetery

Image gallery

  • Mosaisk Nordre Begravelsesplads 2.JPG
  • Mosaisk Nordre Begravelsesplads 4.JPG
  • Mosaisk Nordre Begravelsesplads 5.JPG
  • Mosaisk Nordre Begravelsesplads 9.JPG
  • Mosaisk Nordre Begravelsesplads 10.JPG

See also

References

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External links

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