A tall poplar avenue extends from the main entrance towards Utterslev Mose in the west.

One of the cemetery’s main attractions is an avenue of Japanese cherry trees that, when in bloom during spring, form a long, pink tunnel.

In the southwestern corner of the cemetery is a section dedicated to Danish soldiers, police officers and resistance fighters who died in World War II.

The complex was designed by city architect Poul Holsøe and features a monument created by the sculptor Povl Søndergaard.

The British casualties were buried at the site upon orders from the German occupying forces but most of them were transferred to Vestre Cemetery in March 1944.

The writer Johannes V. Jensen, chess player Aron Nimzowitsch and the sculptor Astrid Noack are interred in at the Old communal burial site.

The architect and writer Poul Henningsen, former lord mayor of Copenhagen Egon Weidekamp an Nobel Prize-winning chemist Henrik Dam are interred in the new communal burial site.