Vestre Prison
Vestre Prison is the main jail of the Danish capital, Copenhagen. Erected in 1895, it is Denmark's largest prison with a total capacity of 530 inmates. It primarily houses pretrial detainees, not convicted felons.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Stig Nygaard, CC BY 2.0.
- Email: vestre.faengsel@krfo.dk
- Type: Prison
- Description: prison in Copenhagen, Denmark
- Also known as: “Vestre Fængsel”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Mosaisk Vestre Begravelsesplads and J. C. Jacobsen Garden.
Mosaisk Vestre Begravelsesplads
Cemetery
Photo: Orf3us, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mosaisk Vestre Begravelsesplads is a Jewish cemetery in Copenhagen. Mosaisk Vestre Begravelsesplads is situated 180 metres west of Vestre Prison.
J. C. Jacobsen Garden
Park
Photo: Thomas Angermann, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The J. C. Jacobsen Garden, also known as the Academy Garden, is a public garden in the Carlsberg area of Copenhagen, Denmark. The main entrance is through a pergola on the left-hand side of the Tap E building, a former bottling plant which now serves as a cultural venue. J. C. Jacobsen Garden is situated 400 metres northwest of Vestre Prison.
Carlsberg railway station
Railway stop
Photo: Dannebrog Spy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Carlsberg station is an S-train station in Copenhagen, Denmark, that serves the Carlsberg area of the Vesterbro/Kongens Enghave district. Situated on the Høje Taastrup radial of the S-train network, it opened on 3 July 2016 and replaced Enghave station, which was located 200m east. Carlsberg railway station is situated 230 metres north of Vestre Prison.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Carlsberg and Humleby.
Carlsberg
Suburb
Photo: Nillerdk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Carlsberg is an area located straddling the border of Valby and Vesterbro districts in central Copenhagen, Denmark approximately 2.4 km from the City Hall Square.
Humleby
Neighborhood
Humleby is an enclave of terraced houses situated next to the Carlsberg area in the Vesterbro district of Copenhagen, Denmark. They were built between 1885 and 1891 by the Worker's Building Society to provide healthy housing for the workers at Burmeister & Wain.
Vesterbro
Photo: Dannebrog Spy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vesterbro is just outside Copenhagen’s city centre )the Inner City or Indre By), making it a very attractive place to live. It includes the districts of Sydhavnen.
Vestre Prison
Latitude
55.66156° or 55° 39′ 42″ northLongitude
12.53747° or 12° 32′ 15″ eastOpen location code
9F7JMG6P+JXOpenStreetMap ID
way 90529309OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=prisonWikidata ID
Q7923498
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In Other Languages
From Danish to Swedish—“Vestre Prison” goes by many names.
- Danish: “Vestre Fængsel”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سجن ويست”
- French: “prison de l’ouest”
- French: “prison de l’Ouest”
- French: “prison de Vestre”
- French: “prison occidentale”
- French: “Prison Ouest”
- French: “prison Vestre”
- French: “Vestre Fængsel”
- German: “Vestre Gefängnis”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vestre Fængsel”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vestre Fengsel”
- Norwegian: “Vestre Fængsel”
- Spanish: “Prision Vestre”
- Spanish: “Prisión Vestre”
- Swedish: “Vestre Fængsel”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Vestre Fængsels Kirke and GAME House Copenhagen.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Vestre Prison”. Photo: Stig Nygaard, CC BY 2.0.