Assistens Cemetery founded in 1760 is both a burial ground, green breathing space and cultural treasure trove. It is at this probably best known cemetery in Copenhagen, where i.a. HC Andersen and Søren Kierkegaard are buried. Large parts of Assistens Cemetery are today a cemetery park, and here you are welcome to settle down and enjoy the green and historic surroundings.

For more than 250 years, Copenhageners have buried their dead - known and unknown - at Assistens Cemetery. Today, the cemetery is one of Nørrebro's most interesting and lush green areas, where both locals and tourists seek out when the sun is shining. At the same time, part of the cemetery continues to function as a burial ground, where several hundred coffins and urns are set down each year.

Assistens Cemetery in Copenhagen exudes both the big and the small stories that the dead represent. Here, thousands of old, worthy of preservation tombstones have been placed over prominent people from the last centuries of Danish history - with HC Andersen and Søren Kierkegaard as the most famous.

But also the graves of people like the physicists HC Ørsted and Niels Bohr and - closer to our own time - the poet Michael Strunge and the singer Natasja Saad make Assistens Cemetery an exciting place to visit.

Assistens Cemetery is open at 7 - 19 in the winter (October-March) and at. 7-22 in the summer (April-September).