Søndermark Cemetery is a cemetery in the Frederiksberg

Frederiksberg

Frederiksberg Kommune is a municipality on the island of Zealand in Denmark. It surrounded by the city of Copenhagen. The municipality, co-extensive with its seat, covers an area of and has a total population of 98,782 making it the smallest municipality in Denmark area-wise, the fifth most...

 district of Copenhagen

Copenhagen

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, Denmark

Denmark

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, located on Roskildevej, opposite Solbjerg Park Cemetery and next to Søndermarken

Søndermarken

Søndermarken is a park in Frederiksberg on the border to Valby and the Carlsberg area in Copenhagen, Denmark. It shares much of its history with Frederiksberg Park from which it is separated only by Roskildevej...

 and Copenhagen Zoo. It is the youngest of the three cemeteries in Frederiksberg Municipality.

Chapel and crematorium complex

A competition for a combined crematorium and chapel was held in 1926 and won by Edvard Thomsen and Frits Schlegel

Frits Schlegel

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. The complex, which in part differs from their winning proposal, was built from 1927 to 1930, and is one of the earliest examples of Modernism

Modern architecture

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 in religious architecture in Denmark. The facade front is decorated with a large relief designed by Einar Utzon-Frank

Einar Utzon-Frank

Aksel Einar Utzon-Frank was a Danish sculptor and professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. During his lifetime, he produced a large number of sculptures, many of which stand as public monuments...

.

The Birkelunden area was inaugurated in 1963.

Søndermark Cemetery today

To the north the cemetery is bound by a brick wall along Roskildevej. A gate opens into an avenue which leads to the chapel in the chapel-crematorium complex. Apart from the Birkelunden area, the layout is traditional and vegetation is kept low.

Internents

• Ove Abildgaard
• Ebba Amfeldt
  Ebba Amfeldt
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   (Birkelunden)
• Tove Bang (Birkelunden)
• Aage Bendixen
  Aage Bendixen
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   (Birkelunden)
• Jytte Breuning
• Christel
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• Benjamin Christensen
  Benjamin Christensen
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   (Birkelunden)
• John Christmas Møller
  John Christmas Møller
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• Jørgen Clevin (Birkelunden)
• Lilian Ellis (nedlagt)
• Christian Flagstad (Birkelunden)
• Erik Frederiksen (Birkelunden)
• William Fridericia (Birkelunden)
• Flemming Geill
• Astrid Henning-Jensen (Birkelunden)
• Bjarne Henning-Jensen
  Bjarne Henning-Jensen
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   (Birkelunden)
• Inge Hvid-Møller (Birkelunden)
• Else Hvidhøj (Birkelunden)
• Otto Hænning
  Otto Hænning
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• Kjeld Ingrisch (Birkelunden)
• Ingeborg Irminger
• Valdemar Irminger
• Ellen Jansø
  Ellen Jansø
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• Kai Julian (Birkelunden)
• Preben Kaas
  Preben Kaas
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   (Birkelunden)
• Ole Kiilerich
• Gunnar Lauring
  Gunnar Lauring
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   (Birkelunden)
• Mogens Lind (nedlagt)
• Otto Lington
  Otto Lington
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   (Birkelunden)
• Lone Luther (Birkelunden)
• Lis Løwert
  Lis Løwert
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• Johannes Marott
  Johannes Marott
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   (Birkelunden)
• Ole Monty
  Ole Monty
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   (Birkelunden)
• Henning Møller
• Svend-Erik Nørregaard
• Knud Pheiffer
• Børge Roger-Henrichsen (Birkelunden)
• Jørgen Roos
• Karl Roos
• Noemi Roos
• Franz Šedivý
• Bodil Steen
  Bodil Steen
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   (Birkelunden)
• Karl Stegger
  Karl Stegger
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   (Birkelunden)
• Inger Stender
  Inger Stender
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   (Birkelunden)
• Elga Olga Svendsen
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   (Birkelunden)
• Knud Vad Thomsen
  Knud Vad Thomsen
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   (Birkelunden)
• Valdemar Vester
• Bjørn Watt Boolsen
• Arne Weel
  Arne Weel
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   (Birkelunden)
• Henning Wellejus
• Bent Werther (Birkelunden)
• Hanne Winther-Jørgensen (Birkelunden)
• Inge Østergaard (nedlagt)