The Execution Ground on Amager (Dalslandsgade)

Köpenhamn · Dänemark · Avrättningsplats · Grusel 3/5

In an old Swedish redoubt the executioner's axe fell 35 times – Copenhagen's last public execution was held here in 1857.

By present-day Dalslandsgade on Amager lay an old Swedish redoubt from the siege of Copenhagen, which in 1806 was given a new and grimmer purpose: the city's public execution ground. For half a century, the condemned from the whole Copenhagen area were brought out here to the common, and 35 people lost their heads under the executioner's axe while crowds looked on. The last was journeyman blacksmith Christian Julius Jensen, beheaded at dawn on 19 May 1857 – the final person publicly executed in Copenhagen. Then the redoubt fell silent, the city grew, and today housing blocks rise over the spot where the scaffold stood. But the story of the execution ground lives on in local history, and those who know where the old redoubt lay can still trace the outline of the place where the axe fell for the last time.

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The Execution Ground on Amager (Dalslandsgade) liegt in Köpenhamn, Dänemark.