[1] Already by the end of the 17th century, Danish authorities deemed that the conditions for inner-city cemeteries were becoming increasingly unacceptable.
Not only was the space becoming limited but it was also deemed unhygienic to conduct burial in the inner-city.
The first of these in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, was founded by royal resolution on May 26, 1757, and inaugurated November 6, 1760.
Assistens Kirkegård has become the name of a number of cemeteries in Denmark:
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