Cimetière skogskyrkogården

Le cimetière boisé de Stockholm^[1] (Skogskyrkogården i Stockholm) est un cimetière boisé situé à Stockholm en Suède.

Historique

Il a été construit à la suite d'un concours d'architecture qui a eu lieu en , et qui visait à établir les plans d'un nouveau cimetière au sud de Stockholm. Les vainqueurs du concours furent Gunnar Asplund et Sigurd Lewerentz, deux jeunes représentants du mouvement fonctionnaliste. Les travaux ont débuté en et se sont terminés en Les architectes se sont inspirés du paysage existant pour créer une ambiance particulièrement agréable et fascinante qui a ensuite inspiré nombre de cimetières de par le monde.

Le Skogskyrkogården a été en décembre inscrit à la liste du patrimoine mondial par l'UNESCO, et est un lieu très visité de Stockholm. Cependant, relativement peu de personnalités y reposent par rapport au cimetière du Nord de Stockholm.

Sépultures de personnalités célèbres

• Gunnar Asplund (), architecte&#;;
• Tim Bergling, alias Avicii (), DJ, producteur.
• Birgit Cullberg (), chorégraphe&#;;
• Greta Garbo (), actrice&#;;
• Otto Grimlund (), journalis

  The unique merge of nature and architecture into a seamless whole. That is Skogskyrkogården - The Woodland Cemetery.

  When Skogskyrkogården was founded at the beginning of the s, the aim was to create something special, something original - a cemetery blending nature and architecture into a seamless whole. Today, Skogskyrkogården fryst vatten considered one of the most important creations of modern architecture, and fryst vatten even inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List.

  
  
  
  Skogskyrkogården's history begins at the beginning of the s, when it became apparent that Stockholm's cemeteries were insufficient and needed complementing. Stockholm City Council decided to build a new cemetery south of the existing Southern Cemetery, in modern-day Enskede.
  
  At the time, cemeteries were generally considered "Gardens of the Dead", with grandiose parks, tree-lined avenues and impressive headstones raising a kind of memento to the dead. The city's cemetery committee had a desire to move away from this ideal and to instead create a cemetery centred on the underlying landscape. 

  Photos of the cemetery by Susanne Hallmann:

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In the quiet of this crisp windless morning, the trees seem so still.

At Skogskyrkogården, the tall pines surround the graves, solemn in their silence, as though they are mourners gathered around for a perpetual funeral ceremony.

Rigid as the tombstones, they seem to be empathising with the dead that they watch over.

Yet the trees are alive, strong and healthy. Their stillness does not mean death.

It means peace. And this is what they reflect back out through the cemetery.

These pines give us comfort to lay loved ones to rest here because they will never be alone.

As the sun passes across the sky, as snow falls and melts, as more join them in the earth, they lie in a park of peace. And all around, watching on, are the towering living trees.

At Skogskyrkogården in Stockholm &#; known as The Woodland Cemetery in English &#; life and death are fused together.

What is Skogskyrkogården?

Located in Stockholm, Skogskyrkogården is a large cemetery that&#;s built within a natural forest terrain. Also known as the Woodland Cemetery, it has a beautiful landscape design and a number of notable buildings.

Why is Skogskyrkogården a World Heritage Site?

Skogskyrkogården