Cemetery in Antwerp, Belgium
View on a part of the cemetery
Castle Schoonselhof
Tomb of Hendrik Conscience
Coquilhat tomb
Schoonselhof Cemetery (Antwerpen Schoonselhof) is located in Hoboken, Antwerp, a suburb of Antwerp, Belgium.
Schoonselhof Cemetery has an islamic and Jewish section.
There is also a Commonwealth war graves plot containing the graves of 1,557 British Commonwealth service personnel who died in the World Wars, 101 from World War I and 1,455 from World War II, besides 16 Polish and 1 French war burial, a United States airman attached to the British Royal Air Force, and 16 non-war graves, mainly of merchant seamen. The plot was laid out by Principal Architect of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Philip Hepworth.[1]
The cemetery was mentioned in the TV show GRIMM, Episode 14 of Season 1.
Notable interments
- Roger Avermaete (1893–1988), author
- Lode Baekelmans [nl] (1879–1965), writer
- Désiré Beaurain (1881–1963), Olympic fencer
- Peter Benoit (1834–1901), composer
- Pierre Bruno Bourla (1783–1866), architect
- Gaston Burssens (1896–1965), writer
- Hendrik Conscience (1812–1883), writer
- Jan Cox (1919–1980), painter
- Henri De Braekeleer (1840–1888), artist
- Herman De Coninck (1944–1997), writer and journalist
- Willem Elsschot (1882–1960), author
- Vic Gentils [nl] (1919–1997), artist and sculptor
- Marnix Gijsen (1899–1984), writer
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- Ferre Grignard (1939–1982), rock singer
- Emiel van Heurck (1871–1931), folklorist
- Paul Mara (1920–1998), artist
- Alice Nahon (1896–1933), poet
- Hugues C. Pernath (1931–1975), writer
- Armand Preud'Homme (1904–1986), composer
- John Rankin Rathbone (1910–1940 †), British MP, (CWGC)
- François Rom (1882–1942), Olympic fencer
- Bernard Tokkie (1867–1942), opera singer
- August Van Cauwelaert [nl] (1885–1945), author
- Jos Van Eynde [nl] (1907–1992), journalist
- Paul Van Ostaijen (1896–1928), writer
- Gerard Walschap (1898–1989), writer
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References
External links
Media related to Schoonselhof at Wikimedia Commons
51°09′58″N 04°22′01″E / 51.16611°N 4.36694°E / 51.16611; 4.36694
Media related to Schoonselhof at Wikimedia Commons
