Sankt Petri Kirke
Medieval church housing sepulchral crypts where German families and one disputed regicide's bones lie stacked in layers.
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This guide to Sankt Petri Kirke in Copenhagen follows Johann Friedrich Struensee, a German royal physician who became the queen's lover and effectively ruled Denmark for a stretch of the 1770s before his arrest and execution on Gallows Hill before a crowd said to number in the thousands. Workers digging at that old execution site in 1885 turned up scattered human bones, and a 1927 examination found marks a historian judged consistent with a beheading. You're standing above the vaults where Copenhagen's wealthiest German families have been stacked in layers since the 1640s.
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