Mariebjerg Cemetery

Coordinates: 55°45′37″N 12°30′35″E / 55.76028°N 12.50972°E / 55.76028; 12.50972

Mariebjerg Cemetery

One of the three-lined avenues
Details
Year established	1926-1933
Country	Denmark
Location	Gentofte, Copenhagen
Type	Public
Owned by	Gentofte Municipality
Size	26.6 hectares
Website	Official site

Mariebjerg Cemetery (Danish: Mariebjerg Kirkegård) is located in Gentofte north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It was laid out between 1926 and 1933 to the design of the landscape architect Gudmund Nyeland Brandt and is considered an important example of European Modernist landscape architecture. Its design has inspired many other cemeteries both in Denmark and abroad.^[1]

Layout

Mariebjerg Cemetery is laid out in a tight, schematic grid pattern over an area of just over 25 hectares. A network of wide avenues cut through the cemetery and long, metre-high hedges subdivide the area.

Each of the resulting spaces contains an interpretation of a characteristic part of the Danish landscape, ranging from dense woods and glades, over ditches, meadows, fields and overgrown slopes to well-nursed garden settings.

Mariebjerg Crematory and Chapel

Mariebjerg Crematory and Chapel was added in 1936. It was built to the design of Frits Schlegel.

See also

• Parks and open spaces in Copenhagen

References

1. ^ "Mariebjerg Kirkegård". Gyldendal. http://www.denstoredanske.dk/Kunst_og_kultur/Arkitektur/Kirkeg%C3%A5rde/Mariebjerg_Kirkeg%C3%A5rd. Retrieved 2010-12-02.