Assistance Cemetery (Odense)
The assistance cemetery Odense ( Danish Assistens kirkegård ) is a cemetery in Odense on the Danish island of Funen . Many citizens of urban historical importance were buried here.
history
The cemetery was created in 1811 on a southern road. Church congregations in the old towns covered the increased demand due to industrialization and urbanization with so-called assistance cemeteries (after the French word “assistance Hilfe”) . In Denmark there are a good dozen plants under this name. The best known is certainly the assistance cemetery in Copenhagen .
Before that, the area served for centuries as a place of execution and Schindanger , which the skinner used to dispose of carrion and rubbish. Horticultural inspector Hans von Müller (1743–1816), gardener at Odense Castle, designed the assistant cemetery as a baroque garden with elements of the English landscape garden . The initially 6 hectare area was expanded a total of eleven times; Today it measures 32 hectares. However, its park character has been preserved.
In 1852, Herman Wilhelm Bissen (1798–1868) created a memorial for 119 soldiers from the Schleswig-Holstein War of 1848–51 who were injured in the hospitals of Odense.
In March 1945 graves were laid for German soldiers because the Wehrmacht could no longer find the capacity to repatriate their fallen soldiers. Shortly afterwards, the first refugees from the eastern regions were also buried here.
Graves of famous people
- Emil Aarestrup , doctor and poet
- Carl Bagger , journalist and writer
- Paul Olaf Bodding , missionary and linguist
- JCA Carlsen-Skiødt , gardener, politician, author
- Christian Dæhnfeldt , financier of the Munke Mose city park in 1912
- Jens Peter Dahl-Jensen , sculptor
- Birgitte Federspiel , actress (e.g. in Die Olsenbande runs amok and Babette's party )
- Jakob Emanuel Lange , mycologist, social economist and politician
- Gustav Lotze, pharmacist (tomb by sculptor Aksel Hansen anticipates forms of Art Nouveau)
- Hans von Müller, designer of the assistance cemetery in 1811
- Theodor Schiøtz , founder of the Albani Brewery in Odense (now Royal Unibrew )
outlook
Today around 90 percent of burials take place in the form of urn burials. Therefore the area is now much too big. A part of it should therefore be turned into a park without affecting the peaceful character of a cemetery. Used grave sites will not be closed prematurely, so that the redesign will take place over many years until 2050.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Den store danske encyclopædi , Volume 2, Copenhagen 1995, p. 82
- ↑ 200 years of the Assistenzfriedhof (Danish) ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Ugeavisen Odense , May 11, 2011, accessed January 19, 2012
- ↑ German Graves (Danish) Foreningen Odense 1940-45 , accessed on January 19, 2012
- ↑ Information from the Citizens' Registration Office (Danish) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. City of Odense, accessed January 19, 2012
Web links
- Odense Assistance Cemetery Information from the National Museum of Denmark, accessed on January 17, 2012
Coordinates: 55 ° 23 ′ 17.5 ″ N , 10 ° 22 ′ 2.9 ″ E