Garrison Cemetery | |
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Garnisons Kirkegård | |
Details | |
Established | 1664 |
Location | |
Country | Denmark |
Size | hectares |
Website | [garnisonskirkegaard Official web site] |
Find a Grave | Garrison Cemetery |
Garrison Cemetery (Danish: Garnisons Kirkegård) is a cemetery in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was inaugurated in 1671 on a site just outside the Eastern City Gate, as a military cemetery complementing the naval Holmens Cemetery 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.