The Jewish Northern Cemetery in Nørrebro was formerly the principal Jewish cemetery in Copenhagen, Denmark. It has an area of 13,500 square metres and contains some 5,500 burials.
History The Jewish congregation in Copenhagen purchased a 900 square metre site outside the city for use as a burial site in the early 1690s. The oldest burial in the cemetery is from 1694. Further acquisitions of land had brought the cemetery up to its current size by 1854 but it was still passed out of use when a new Jewish cemetery opened in connection with the new Vestre Cemetery.
Today The brick wall which today surrounds the cemetery on three sides, along Møllegade, Guldbergsgade and Birkegade, was built in 1873 to a design by Vilhelm Tvede. The entrance is on Møllegade. The cemetery was listed in 1983.
Burials
David Baruch Adler, broker Hanna Adler, educator Joel Ballin, engraver Samuel Jacob Ballin, physician Sophus Berendsen, industrialist Herman Bing, book dealer Jacob Herman Bing, industrialist Meyer Herman Bing, industrialist Simon Aron Eibeschütz, philanthropist Liepmann Fraenckel, portrait painter David Halberstadt, merchant Ludvig Heckscher, lawyer Marie Henriques, painter Martin Henriques, banker Nathan Henriques, painter Sally Henriques, painter Samuel Henriques, painter Isaac W. Heyman, businessman Samuel Jacobi, physician Ahron Jacobson, engraver Albert Jacobson, ædelstenskærer David Ahron Jacobson, engraver Salomon Ahron Jacobson, engraver Isidor Kalckar, painter Israel Levin, linguist Moritz Levy, national bank manager Moritz G. Melchior, merchant Moses Melchior, merchant Nathan Melchior, eye surgeon Moses Mendel, printer Hartvig Philip Rée, merchant Salomon Soldin, book dealer Arnold Wallick, stage painter Abraham Wolff, Chief Rabbi
Cultural depictions Music The Jewish Northern Cemetery is the subject of an instrumental song, "The Jewish Cemetery on Møllegade", by Jóhann Jóhannsson.
Image gallery
See also Great Synagogue (Copenhagen)
References
External links
Pamphlet about the cemetery