Saint John's Cemetery is located at the highest point of the Brunkeberg Hill next to Saint John's Church in the Norrmalm district of Stockholm. Today, the cemetery is treated as a historic park. The place was used many times in Swedish literature: Hjalmar Söderberg or Agnes von Krusenstjern placed events of their poems and novels in the beautiful cemetery.
The first mention of St. Johannes kyrkogård dates back to the early Middle Ages: it was probably buried here since 1200 when Magnus Ladulås founded a hospital in the southern part of Norrmalm. In 1651 a cemetery chapel named after Saint John was built here, and since 1995 we can admire the memory grove designed by Örjan Lönngren. Here you will find antique tombstones from the 16th, 19th and 20th centuries, as well as a memorial stone dedicated to 25,000 Polish officers and soldiers who were murdered in Russia in 1940-1941.
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