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Ryvangen Memorial Park (Danish: Mindelunden i Ryvangen) is a memorial park in Ryvangen officially inaugurated on 5 May 1950 to commemorate fallen members of the Danish resistance to the German occupation of Denmark during World War II. The location in Ryvangen, which means "rye field", was acquired in 1893 by the army for a barracks and exercise field. On 29 August 1943, when the Danish cooperation with Germany broke down the German occupying forces seized the army and naval facilities in all of Denmark including Ryvangen.

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  • Der Gedenkhain in Ryvangen (dän. Mindelunden i Ryvangen) liegt in Hellerup bei Kopenhagen und ist eine nationale Gedenkstätte zu Ehren der dänischen Opfer der deutschen Besetzung Dänemarks während des Zweiten Weltkrieges. Er wurde am 5. Mai 1950 eingeweiht. (de)
  • Ryvangen Memorial Park (Danish: Mindelunden i Ryvangen) is a memorial park in Ryvangen officially inaugurated on 5 May 1950 to commemorate fallen members of the Danish resistance to the German occupation of Denmark during World War II. The location in Ryvangen, which means "rye field", was acquired in 1893 by the army for a barracks and exercise field. On 29 August 1943, when the Danish cooperation with Germany broke down the German occupying forces seized the army and naval facilities in all of Denmark including Ryvangen. While the German army used the barracks for themselves, part of the exercise field was used as an execution and burial site for members of the Danish resistance. The execution site consisted of three wooden poles to which the condemned were tied and executed by firing squad. On 5 May 1945, in connection with the liberation, members of the resistance came to Ryvangen and only then did the public get confirmation that the executions of the German occupying forces had taken place there. The Comrades' Relief Fund writes that, on 5 May, members of the resistance discovered 202 graves in Ryvangen and that the minister for ecclesiastical affairs had the remains exhumed for identification. In a number of cases, the parish registers cited below state that the remains were brought to the Department of Forensic Medicine of the university of Copenhagen for an inquest. 27 bodies were actually found weeks after 5 May, with 25 found between one and two months after the liberation. One of the bodies found could not be identified while one exhumed body was identified as a Rottenführer of the SS. The inquests at the Department of Forensic Medicine showed that at least 19 men mentioned in the parish registers of Bethlehem, Bispebjerg, Holmen, Vor Frelser, Års and Sct. Markus, Ålborg were executed with shots to the chest, with seven men each receiving from three to seven gunshot wounds. After the liberation the site was converted to a cemetery and memorial park for the resistance members who were executed there or were otherwise killed. In connection with the burials there, the site was referred to as Mindekirkegaarden i Ryvangen (Ryvangen Memorial Cemetery). The bereaved could choose to have the remains buried at the memorial park or at a cemetery closer to home. On 29 August 1945, two years after the German occupiers had dissolved the Danish army and navy, 106 hearses thus drove from the Christiansborg Riding Grounds through Copenhagen to the memorial park in Ryvangen with the flags in the city flying half-mast. Bishop Hans Fuglsang-Damgaard inaugurated the park as a cemetery with the Danish Royal Family, the government and representatives from the resistance movement present at the funerals. In the center of the grave field lies a memorial stone for the 91 resistance members who were exhumed in Ryvangen and buried in a cemetery closer to home. The remains of 31 resistance members who died in German prisons and concentration camps are also buried here. The pergola along the eastern border of the park has a memorial wall with 151 plaques, one for each of the 151 Danish resistance members whose remains have never been found. On 24 December 1949 the newly formed Home Guard held a memorial service for the victims of the occupation in the memorial park. Every Christmas Eve since then the Home Guard holds a memorial service there. (en)
  • Le Parc du souvenir de Ryvangen (en danois : Mindelunden i Ryvangen) est un lieu de mémoire situé près de Copenhague et officiellement inauguré le 5 mai 1950, pour rendre hommage aux membres de la Résistance danoise contre l'occupation allemande du Danemark pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. (fr)
  • Minneslunden i Ryvangen (danska: Mindelunden i Ryvangen) är en park på gränsen mellan Hellerup och Köpenhamn i Danmark, anlagd till minne av de medlemmar i den danska motståndsrörelsen som den tyska ockupationsmakten avrättade på denna plats under andra världskriget. De dömda bands vid pålar och avrättades sedan av en exekutionspluton. De avrättade var medlemmar i olika motståndsgrupper, exempelvis Hvidstengruppen och Holger Danske. Efter befrielsen 1945 hittades 202 lik som tyskarna begravt på platsen.Även kvarlevorna av 31 danskar som dog i tyska koncentrationsläger finns begravda här.Verandan längs den östra gränsen av parken har 151 minnesstenar över motståndsmän vars kvarlevor aldrig hittats. (sv)
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  • Der Gedenkhain in Ryvangen (dän. Mindelunden i Ryvangen) liegt in Hellerup bei Kopenhagen und ist eine nationale Gedenkstätte zu Ehren der dänischen Opfer der deutschen Besetzung Dänemarks während des Zweiten Weltkrieges. Er wurde am 5. Mai 1950 eingeweiht. (de)
  • Le Parc du souvenir de Ryvangen (en danois : Mindelunden i Ryvangen) est un lieu de mémoire situé près de Copenhague et officiellement inauguré le 5 mai 1950, pour rendre hommage aux membres de la Résistance danoise contre l'occupation allemande du Danemark pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. (fr)
  • Ryvangen Memorial Park (Danish: Mindelunden i Ryvangen) is a memorial park in Ryvangen officially inaugurated on 5 May 1950 to commemorate fallen members of the Danish resistance to the German occupation of Denmark during World War II. The location in Ryvangen, which means "rye field", was acquired in 1893 by the army for a barracks and exercise field. On 29 August 1943, when the Danish cooperation with Germany broke down the German occupying forces seized the army and naval facilities in all of Denmark including Ryvangen. (en)
  • Minneslunden i Ryvangen (danska: Mindelunden i Ryvangen) är en park på gränsen mellan Hellerup och Köpenhamn i Danmark, anlagd till minne av de medlemmar i den danska motståndsrörelsen som den tyska ockupationsmakten avrättade på denna plats under andra världskriget. De dömda bands vid pålar och avrättades sedan av en exekutionspluton. De avrättade var medlemmar i olika motståndsgrupper, exempelvis Hvidstengruppen och Holger Danske. (sv)
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  • Gedenkhain in Ryvangen (de)
  • Parc du souvenir de Ryvangen (fr)
  • Ryvangen Memorial Park (en)
  • Minneslunden i Ryvangen (sv)
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