Gent City Cemetery
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Gent City Cemetery

Also known as Gent Westerbegraafplaats

Ghent, Arrondissement Gent, East Flanders, Belgium

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    Ghent, East Flanders, 9000 Belgium
    Coordinates: 51.06858, 3.69832
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Adolphe Pauli, city-architect designed an drafted the original plan of this Cemetery in 1866, it is ca 14.000m² walled in cemetery, the cemetery had its first burials in 1873, Mayor Charles de Kerchhove decided Jewisch and Protetant could be buried there, the diocese refused quite a while to consecrate this cemetery and it got the nickname Geuzenkerkhof, It also has a Military burial ground with graves of ca 200 Belgian soldiers, 197 Commonwealth soldiers,many nationalities and 1 Dutch soldier.(this lot of wargraves is aka Gent City Cemetery)

Adolphe Pauli, city-architect designed an drafted the original plan of this Cemetery in 1866, it is ca 14.000m² walled in cemetery, the cemetery had its first burials in 1873, Mayor Charles de Kerchhove decided Jewisch and Protetant could be buried there, the diocese refused quite a while to consecrate this cemetery and it got the nickname Geuzenkerkhof, It also has a Military burial ground with graves of ca 200 Belgian soldiers, 197 Commonwealth soldiers,many nationalities and 1 Dutch soldier.(this lot of wargraves is aka Gent City Cemetery)

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  • Added: 4 Feb 2008
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2248471