It was laid out between 1926 and 1933 to the design of the landscape architect Gudmund Nyeland Brandt and is considered an important example of European Modernist landscape architecture.

[1] Mariebjerg Cemetery is laid out in a tight, schematic grid pattern over an area of just over 25 hectares.

A network of wide avenues cut through the cemetery and long, metre-high hedges subdivide the area.

Each of the resulting spaces contains an interpretation of a characteristic part of the Danish landscape, ranging from dense woods and glades, over ditches, meadows, fields and overgrown slopes to well-nursed garden settings.

It was listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1918.