The memorial park at Marselisborg is the largest of the approx. 150 memorials exist for the First World War. The park has an area of ​​approx. 15 hectares and in the middle of the area, a circular memorial wall was inaugurated on 1 July 1934, which is embedded in the sloping terrain in front of Marselisborg Castle. In the wall, which has a diameter of 40 meters and is 4.5 meters high, are carved the names of 4,140 fallen war participants in the First World War. The wall is built of limestone from a quarry near the French city of Verdun. The facility was designed by architect Axel Ekberg, while the wall is decorated with four large reliefs by the sculptor Axel Poulsen as well as a main frieze with a poem by former prime minister J.C. Christensen (see the text at the bottom of the article), who in his last years was at the head of the collection work for the memorial park. The inauguration itself was a very large event with between 30,000 and 100,000 participants and in the presence of the royal family. There were speeches by representatives of the various monument committees and Prime Minister Thorvald Stauning, who stated that "the entire Danish people will consider the memorial which is created here, as the nation's memory of good sons of our country". The official opening speech was given by Count O.D. Chess. The prehistory of the monument contains a number of paradoxes. The memorial park should probably have been located somewhere in Southern Jutland rather than in Aarhus, but various other Aarhusian interests were at play. As mentioned, the memorial wall contains 4,140 names, but there were at least another 1,500 South Jutland casualties during the First World War, whose names are therefore not included. The background is that only Danish-minded South Jutland people were to be included, so a large and practically impossible task was undertaken to determine which of the fallen could be considered Danish-minded South Jutland and who had been German-minded South Jutland. Local teachers, priests, parish clerks and others were asked about the national attitude of the fallen, a task county commissioner Viggo Haarløv was in charge of. German-minded southerners did not feel offended by this exclusion, i.a. because it ran counter to their perception of soldiers' camaraderie across all social and national divides. The families of fallen Danes insisted that their relatives be included, and this happened regardless of whether they had fought in the Allied armies or on the German side. https://graenseforeningen.dk/om-graenselandet/leksikon/marselisborg-mindepark