Vestre Cemetery (Copenhagen)

Vestre Cemetery
One of the cemetery's two lakes
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Established1870
Location
Copenhagen
CountryDenmark
Coordinates55°39′28″N 12°31′45″E / 55.65778°N 12.52917°E / 55.65778; 12.52917
Size54 hectares
WebsiteOfficial website
Find a GraveVestre Cemetery
This article is about Vestre Cemetery in Copenhagen. For Vestre Cemetery in Aarhus, see Vestre Cemetery (Aarhus). For the Oslo cemetery with a similar name, see Vestre gravlund.

Vestre Cemetery (Danish: Vestre Kirkegård, meaning "Western Cemetery") is located in a large park setting in the Kongens Enghave district of Copenhagen, Denmark. With its 54 hectares it is the largest cemetery in Denmark.[1]

The cemetery is landscaped and serves as an important open space,[2] in which people take a stroll, and look at the old graves and monuments. It is located southwest of the city center, between the Carlsberg, Sydhavn, Sjælør and Valby train stations of Copenhagen's S-train network, and right next to the historic Carlsberg neighbourhood.

The cemetery is one of five run by Copenhagen municipality. The other cemeteries are Assistens Cemetery, Brønshøj Cemetery, Sundby Cemetery, and Bispebjerg Cemetery. The cemetery has a Catholic section, and next to that is a Jewish cemetery (the Jewish Western Cemetery).

  1. ^ "Berlingske | Læs nyheder på berlingske.dk". AOK. Retrieved 2010-08-25.
  2. ^ "København får mere liv på kirkegårdene". Politiken. Retrieved 2010-08-25.