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Vestre Kirkegård, Vestre Kirkegårds Allé 15, 2450 Copenhagen

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About this place Herman Bang's Grave

Herman Bang was Denmark's most modern writer at the turn of the century — and its most hounded. Openly effeminate in an era that punished it, mocked and smeared in the press, he wrote novels of quiet, devastating restraint; his Mikaël (1902) became source material for landmark early queer cinema. He died in 1912 on a lecture tour, in Ogden, Utah, about as far from home as a Dane could get. His grave in Vestre Kirkegård is exactly as he wished: no gravestone at all. The plot is marked only by a large copper beech tree — an absence that reads, a century later, like his prose: everything said by what is withheld. (The burial itself had a dark-comic coda — the coffin was initially lowered into the wrong grave and quietly moved after the mourners left.) Visiting: Vestre Kirkegård is Denmark's largest cemetery, free and open daylight hours, a short ride from the centre. Ask at the entrance map for the Bang plot, find the beech, and stand a moment with the writer who survived his tormentors by simply being better than them.

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Uros Groselj
Uros Groselj Aug 2026
★★★★★

Nice, perfect for contemplation. Recommend the visit.

Christina Kjeldsen
Christina Kjeldsen Aug 2026
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Debbie
Debbie Aug 2026
★★★★★

Incredibly beautiful cemetery that honors the brave souls of the Second World War and Danes who lived a long and honorable life. The nature is beautiful, the roads are in good condition and the walking paths are endless. If you like nature, architecture and history, this is a nice memory in western Copenhagen.

Helle Grith Sommer
Helle Grith Sommer Jun 2026
★★★★★

Fantastically beautiful cemetery - Scandinavia's largest. Many famous people are buried here (The official list is online). There is also a large lake + a square water basin here. And chapels and portals.

Mario B. B.
Mario B. B. Mar 2026
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Esi Wilson
Esi Wilson Mar 2026
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Viggo Lorentzen
Viggo Lorentzen Feb 2026
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I often walk here. It is an extremely nice and melancholic place to walk. I prefer the German mass graves, which bear witness to another time, now reduced only to the stones we have set up for it. When it gets pitch dark, you can't read the inscription, and the stones become as uniformed as the people who rest beneath them. In short, it is a formidable place to wander around and get peace of mind.

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