The You are here map is a painted map on wood with a iron case and it shows the entire cemetery in Landskrona.
Landskrona cemetery has been the city's cemetery since 1877 and has been expanded in several stages.
The cemetery was then located outside the city but is today surrounded by urban development and covers about 15 hectares.
LANDSKRONA CEMETERY DEVELOPMENT
At Landskrona cemetery, about 35,000 people have had their last rest, from the Member of Parliament Carl Pettersson who was buried on the opening day on 5 September 1877 in block 33 and the first cremated, which took place in Helsingborg, hotel director Gustaf Liljegren in block 43 who was buried in February 1931 and to those who have died in the past year.
In terms of design, the cemetery today has three very different main parts as a consequence of the successive expansions.
This part has in recent decades been developed and designed by the then kykogård manager Pål Reijer.
The part of the cemetery that was taken into use during the 1960s has been called by the designer, landscape architect Per Friberg, the "Green Cemetery" as it completely lacks the previous elements of gravel passages and gravel pits. The design consisted of lawns, hedges around urn graves and trees.
This part of the cemetery is also based on axial shapes.
The large extension from the 1920s is called "Landskrona cemetery" by the creator, the city architect Frans Ekelund in which he shapes blocks and rooms with different high tombstones and hedges. He also draws tombstones and decides in detail how the cemetery should be designed.
The first generation of trees in this part of the cemetery consisted of elm and linden. Hanging ore and umbrella ore, so-called mourning trees gave a clear design of the cemetery as well as the oldest linden arcades that were planted in 1909. This part of the cemetery was developed by the city gardener Åke Grahnberg.
The oldest parts with axial division, called "New Cemetery", are characterized by clarity and burial grounds with varying shape and free placement, framed by a stone frame or low hedge around the cemetery. The first stage, which was taken into use in 1877, was designed by the architect Frederik Nielsen.
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