The Cherry Avenue of Bispebjerg Kirkegard
Bispebjerg
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Around 150,000 people were expected to walk this avenue during a fortnight of bloom in 2026. It is a cemetery path, and for two weeks a year it is one of the busiest places in Copenhagen. Be clear about what it is. The cherries went in in 1992, about 43 of them, replacing an avenue of elms that Dutch elm disease had killed. So this is not an ancient tree and it is not really a tree at all. It is an avenue, and the avenue is the destination. You walk the length of it under a continuous roof of pink, which is a different thing from standing in front of one old trunk, and it is why the entry exists. The cultivar is Prunus 'Accolade', an ornamental that flowers hard and sets no useful fruit. The register puts the bloom in the second half of April, the press usually reports it in the middle of the month, and the truth is that it moves with the year and lasts around two weeks. Bispebjerg Kirkegård is a working burial ground with people being buried in it. On peak weekends the avenue is crowded to the point of queueing, so early mornings and weekdays are the way to walk it.
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Getting there
Bispebjerg Kirkegard, the cherry avenue (Kirsebaeralleen)
You can recognise it at once: the single straight avenue of some 43 cherries inside Bispebjerg Kirkegård, arching over the path from both sides. No other planting in the cemetery runs as one continuous line of pink.
Free, the cemetery is open to the public in daylight hours; the avenue draws very large crowds during its bloom and is best visited outside peak bloom weekends if a quiet walk is wanted.
Norrebro station (S-train), about 20 minutes on foot, or bus 6A/350S to the cemetery gate on Frederikssundsvej.
In bloom
the second half of April, when the whole avenue flowers at once
Sources
Where the facts on this page come from. The story was written with AI from these sources, and readers who know the tree correct it.
- In the official register: Dansk Trærregister (Dendrologisk Forening)
- Dansk Traeregister, id 889, position verified 21-04-2016: https://www.dendron.dk/dtr/detaljer.asp?Individual_id=889
- Kristeligt Dagblad, reporting that thousands visit the cherry avenue at Bispebjerg each spring: https://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/bagsiden/tusinder…
- TV 2 Kosmopol, reporting the avenue drew an expected 150,000 visitors during its 2026 bloom: https://www.tv2kosmopol.dk/koebenhavn/se-billederne-ki…
- migogkbh.dk, which gives the avenue's planting history: replaced in 1992 an earlier elm avenue lost to Dutch elm disease, and today comprises aroun…
- dendron.dk
