The Assistens Cemetery (Assistens Kirkegård) is located in a large park in the Nørrebro section of Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1757, it is the largest cemetery in the city. It is sometimes called the Nørrebro Cemetery, and is a popular place for people to take a stroll, look at the old graves and monuments, and to have a picnic. A flea market operates along its walls every Saturday from May to October. The yellow walls of the cemetery, especially the one facing Nørrebrogade has in recent years become the target of many graffiti painters.

The cemetery is one of five run by Copenhagen Municipality. The other cemeteries are Vestre Cemetery, Brønshøj Cemetery, Sundby Cemetery, and Bispebjerg Cemetery.

Among the notables interred here are several African-American jazz musicians who made Copenhagen their home.

People buried at Assistens Cemetery

• Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard (1743–1809), painter
• Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875), writer
• Christian Bohr (1855–1911), physician
• Harald Bohr (1887–1951), mathematician and football player
• Niels Bohr (1885–1962), scientist and Nobel Prize winner
• Richard B. Boone (1930–1999), American jazz musician
• Kenny Drew (1928–1993), American jazz pianist
• Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783–1853), painter
• Caspar Frederik Harsdorff (1735–1799), architect
• Henry Heerup (1907–1993), painter, sculptor
• Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855), existential philosopher
• Christen Købke (1819–1848), painter
• Lauritz Melchior (1890–1973), opera singer
• Poul Martin Møller (1794–1838), philosopher, writer
• Martin Andersen Nexø (1869–1954), novelist
• Regine Olsen (1822–1904)
• Hans Christian Ørsted (1777–1851), scientist
• Rasmus Rask (1787–1832), scholar and philologist
• Natasja Saad (1974–2007), rapper and reggae singer
• Peter von Scholten (1784–1854), governor of the Danish West Indies, who emancipated the slaves there in 1848
• P.C. Skovgaard (1817–1875), painter
• Dan Turèll (1946–1993), writer
• Georges Ulmer (1919–1989), composer, singer of French music
• Frederik Vermehren, (1823–1910), painter
• Eugen Warming (1841–1924), botanist
• Ben Webster (1909–1973), American jazz musician
• Johannes Wiedewelt (1731–1802), neoclassical sculptor, created many monuments at this cemetery

See also

• List of famous cemeteries

External links

• Assistens Cemetery's website (in Danish only)
• Copenhagen's cemeteries main site (in Danish only)
• Folder about Assistens Cemetery in English (PDF format)