Cemetery
Vestre Kirkegård, established in 1927, is one of two large municipal cemeteries in Aarhus, Denmark with Nordre Kirkegård being the other. The cemetery was inaugurated in 1927 when Nordre Kirkegård was filled up.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality
- Description: large municipal cemetery in Aarhus, Denmark
- Also known as: “Vestre Cemetery”, “Vestre Kirkegard”, and “Vestre Kirkegård”
Places of Interest
Highlights include The Old Town and Aarhus Botanical Gardens.
The Old Town
Museum
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Den Gamle By is an open-air town museum located in the Aarhus Botanical Gardens, in central Aarhus, Denmark. In 1914, the museum opened as the Denmark's first open-air museum of its kind, concentrating on town culture rather than village culture, and to this day it remains one of just a few top rated Danish museums outside Copenhagen, serving more than 400,000 visitors pr. year.
Aarhus Botanical Gardens
Park
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Aarhus Botanical Gardens is a central park in Aarhus, Denmark. It is located north of the Old Town open-air village museum and was founded in 1873. Nowadays it covers an area of 21.5 hectares, with 5 hectares for the Old Town.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aabyhøj and Bispehaven.
Aabyhøj
Suburb
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Aabyhøj, or Åbyhøj, is a neighborhood of Aarhus, Denmark. It is part of the postal district of Aarhus V and has a population of approximately 11,000 people and is home to Aabyhøj IF football club and Aabyhøj Basketball.
Bispehaven
Quarter
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Bispehaven is a housing project and the largest department of the housing cooperative Østjysk Bolig in Aarhus, Denmark. The project is located in the western suburb of Hasle and mostly consists of concrete apartments, but with small two-story attached town houses, too.
Midtbyen
Neighborhood
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Midtbyen, also known as Aarhus Center or City, is the inner part of Aarhus. Midtbyen is part of district Aarhus C, mainly with postal code 8000, together with Vesterbro, Nørre Stenbro Trøjborg and Frederiksbjerg and has a population of around 90000.
Cemetery
- Category: cemetery
- Location: Aarhus Municipality, Central Jutland, Denmark, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Czech to Ukrainian—“Cemetery” goes by many names.
- Czech: “Západní hřbitov”
- Danish: “Vestre Kirkegård”
- French: “cimetière de l’Ouest”
- French: “cimetière Vestre”
- French: “Cimetière Vestre”
- French: “Vestre Kirkegård”
- German: “Vestre Kirkegård”
- German: “Westfriedhof”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vestre Kirkegård”
- Slovenian: “pokopališče Vestre”
- Slovenian: “Vestre Kirkegård”
- Swedish: “Vestre Kirkegård”
- Ukrainian: “Західний цвинтар”
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