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Suriname - Names from the past
On Monday 30 October, the public project 'Names from the past' was kicked off. The project aims to make an inventory of the graves and grave monuments of Surinamese people who have played an important or special role in history. The start of the project was done during the 'Funerary Heritage in Suri...
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Suriname - Jodensavanne Archaeological Site World Heritage
Located on the densely forested banks of the Suriname River, the Jodensavanne Archaeological Site in northern Suriname is a serial property that illustrates early Jewish colonization attempts in the New World. The Jodensavanne Settlement, founded in the 1680s, includes the ruins of what is believed ...
Suriname - Nomination Jodensavanne World Heritage List
Jodensavanne Archaeological Site in Suriname is formally one of the twenty heritage nominations for placement on the World Heritage List in 2023. In July 2023, UNESCO's World Heritage Committee will meet to decide whether the site will definitely be given a place on this prestigious list.
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Suriname - Documentation monuments Coronie
On Thursday 19 May 2022, a team from the Built Heritage Suriname Foundation (SGES) paid a working visit to the Coronie district to inspect and document some historic graves on the Bellevue plantation. The reason for this is the report that some old graves on the plantation are said to have been dama...
Suriname - Major cleaning Nieuwe Oranjetuin
At the initiative of the District Commissioner Mr. Ricardo Bhola, the highest administrative officer (Burgervader) of the North-East Paramaribo district, preparations are currently being made for a phased clean-up of the overgrown Nieuwe Oranjetuin cemetery. Support is being received from Johan Rooz...
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Shared Cemeteries is all about (former Dutch) funerary heritage all over the world. The website is a non-profit collaboration between organizations, institutions and researchers from different countries involved in funerary heritage with a Dutch background. These can be historical cemeteries, churches as well as individual grave monuments. Shared Cemeteries is 'work in progress' and committed to share knowledge and information.
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Suriname
Plantation Bellevue - Monuments plantation owners
On Thursday 19 May 2022, a team from the Built Heritage Suriname Foundation (SGES) paid a working visit to the Coronie district to inspect and document some historic graves on the Bellevue plantation....
Plantage Clyde – Missionary Cemetery Salem Church
The historic graves at the front of the Salem Church at Clyde Plantation in Coronie were partially documented for the first time, in 2003, by Philip Dikland. Of the 18 graves, 8 had been mapped. Two l...
Historic Burial Sites in the Districts
The core of the Surinamese economy was formed by the plantations until well into the nineteenth century. The plantation was the production unit, but also the social unit: an autonomous community of be...
USA
Brooklyn – First Dutch Cemetery (disappeared)
After the successful establishment of a Dutch colony on the southern tip of Manhattan, the first regular church services were held in 1628 in the fort Nieuw Amsterdam. This happened in a room of the g...
Green-Wood Cemetery
In New York's nearly 400 years of existence, countless cemeteries have been laid out, used and disappeared. The oldest, especially churchyards, date from the second half of the seventeenth century, wh...
The Stuyvesant Vault
Peter Stuyvesant was director-general of the Dutch colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded to the English in 1664. Stuyvesant was not well liked. Although the colony continued to expand ...
Japan
Hendrik Duurkoop’s gravestone
The gravestone of Hendrik Duurkoop in the Dutch Cemetery at Goshinji temple in Nagasaki has long been famous as the oldest surviving gravestone in Japan belonging to a European.[1] Duurkoop, who divid...
Guido Hermann Fridolin Verbeek
In 2003, Ms Hisayo Murase published the book 'Verbeck of Japan'. The book is a translation in Japanese of the biography of Guido Hermann Fridolin Verbeek written by W.E. Griffis in 1901 and provided w...
Buried at the other side of the bay (from 1655)
In 1641 the Dutch were forced to move from Hirado to Nagasaki and lost their privilige to bury their dead on land. Those who died were buried at sea instead. In October 1654 the Dutch were finally giv...
India
Vypin - Johan Hendrik Medeler
Trumpeter in the service of the VOC
In the winter of 1739, Johan Hendrik Medeler from Braakel[i] boarded the ship Gaasperdam of the Chamber of Amsterdam to sail to Ceylon as a trumpeter. Sub-merchant...
Fort Kochi - Isaac Pieterszn van Dielen and Lea de Kouter
On 6 April, 1663, little Lea de Kouter walked with her mother to the cabin of a ship on the roadstead of the Cape of Good Hope. A girl with the beautiful name Virena would be baptized that morning. [i...
Fort Kochi - Balthasar de Meter
On 11 August 1646, the Heren XVII took the decision to do something about the shortage of clergymen in Asia with the coming outgoing fleet. Six ministers, not Germans, but only educated men, would be ...
Other Countries
Rome - Monument of Dutch Zouaves
In the nineteenth century, numerous new states emerged as kingdoms fell. This is particularly true for the Italian peninsula. In the first half of the nineteenth century, this consisted of a conglomer...
Istanbul - Monument Berthe van Lennep
The two cemeteries founded by Dutch traders in Turkey are strongly linked to families like De Hochepied, Leidstar and Van Lennep. They not only represented the Netherlands but also did good business w...
Izmir - Felemenk Bahçe / Flemish garden
After it was no longer possible to bury in the old cemetery, the Dutch community in Smyrna (present Izmir) opened its own section at the larger European cemetery in the east of the city. This part was...
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