Vestre Cemetery

Vestre Kirkegård, established in 1927, is one of two large municipal cemeteries in , with Nordre Kirkegård being the other. The cemetery was inaugurated in 1927 when Nordre Kirkegård was filled up.
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  • Type: Cemetery
  • Description: large municipal cemetery in Aarhus, Denmark
  • Also known as: “Vestre Kirkegård”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include The Old Town and Aarhus Botanical Gardens.

Museum
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Den Gamle By is an open-air town museum located in the , in central , . 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 , serving more than 400,000 visitors pr. year. is situated 1 km east of Vestre Cemetery.

Park
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is a central park in , . 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.

Museum
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ARoS is an art museum in , . The museum was established in 1859 and is the oldest public art museum in Denmark outside Copenhagen. On 7 April 2004, ARoS opened with exhibitions in a brand new modern building, 10 stories tall with a total floor area of 20,700 m² and designed by Danish architects Schmidt Hammer Lassen. is situated 1½ km southeast of Vestre Cemetery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Aabyhøj and Bispehaven.

Suburb
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, or Åbyhøj, is a neighborhood of , Denmark. It is part of the postal district of Aarhus V and has a population of approximately 11,000 people and is home to IF football club and Basketball.

Quarter
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is a housing project and the largest department of the housing cooperative Østjysk Bolig in , . The project is located in the western suburb of and mostly consists of concrete apartments, but with small two-story attached town houses, too.

Neighborhood
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, also known as Aarhus Center or City, is the inner part of . is part of district Aarhus C, mainly with postal code 8000, together with Vesterbro, Trøjborg and and has a population of around 90000.

Vestre Cemetery

Latitude
56.16° or 56° 9′ 36″ north
Longitude
10.17851° or 10° 10′ 43″ east
Inception
1927
Open location code
9F8G555H+XC
Open­Street­Map ID
way 143371720
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­cemetery
Wiki­data ID
Q12340831
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