Garrison Cemetery ( Danish: Garnisons Kirkegård) is a cemetery in
Copenhagen
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,
Denmark
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. It was inaugurated in 1671 on a site just outside the Eastern City Gate, as a military cemetery complementing the naval
Holmens Cemetery
Holmen Cemetery (Danish language, Danish: Holmens Kirkegård) is the oldest cemetery still in use in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was first located next to the Royal Danish Navy, naval Church of Holmen in the city centre but relocated to its current si ...
which had been inaugurated a few years earlier on a neighbouring site. Later the cemetery was opened to civilian burials as well.
Garrison Cemetery is an independent cemetery, managed by the parochial church council, placed under the army's highest authority.
History
Originally named ''Soldaterkirkegården'' (Soldiers' Cemetery), Garrison Cemetery was founded by a decree from King Frederick III and laid out in 1664 on a site outside the Bastioned Fortifications, next to the main road leading in and out of the Eastern City Gate and opposite the naval
Holmens Cemetery
Holmen Cemetery (Danish language, Danish: Holmens Kirkegård) is the oldest cemetery still in use in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was first located next to the Royal Danish Navy, naval Church of Holmen in the city centre but relocated to its current si ...
which was laid out around the same time. Burials began the same year but the site, former marshland, was rather unsuitable for the purpose since ground water levels made it hard to bury the bodies in sufficiently deep grounds. In 1671, some improvements were made when the site was enclosed by pallisades and ditches and the cemetery was officially inaugurated on 13 July 1671.
During the first decades, the cemetery remained relatively little used. In 1706, the Garrison Church was built on
Sankt Annæ Plads
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. and in 1723 the ''Soldiers' Cemetery'' received its current name.
In 1711, Copenhagen was struck by an outbreak of plague which killed an estimated 23,000 citizens. In a move to control disease, the authorities provided that all victims of the plague, within 24 hours and without a ceremony, had to be buried at Garrison Cemetery or a Municipal Plague Cemetery which was set up next to it. In 1720, Garrison Cemetery was officially opened to civilian burials.
The cemetery was neglected and gradually fell into disrepair. In 1812 it was renovated and from then on began to attract more prominent citizens.
Garrison Cemetery today
One of the many characteristics of the cemetery, are the many old graves, still owned by families, and war-monuments of fallen in the wars 1848–1850 and 1864.
Interments
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Peter Bauditz
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