Memorial Park

About

Mindelunden in Ryvangen is the official Danish memorial cemetery for members of the Danish resistance movement who fell during the Second World War. On August 29, 1943 the military area of Ryvangen was occupied by German forces, who then used this location to execute and bury members of the resistance. After the war, 202 bodies were discovered in the area, 94 of these were executed by firing squad. Today it is possible to enter the area where the Danish resistance fighters were shot and see the burial ground where many of them are reinterred. Visitors can also experience several monuments made to honor the Danes who died fighting the occupying power. All this in a very quiet and beautiful prevented park.