Tag: Kerkhoflaan

This bank welcomes you!

Rotterdam Daily Photo: This bank welcomes you!
Rotterdam Daily Photo: This bank welcomes you!

Yes, I know, almost every bank welcomes you! But this one welcomes you as a person not for your money! You want to try this bank? Go to the Kerkhoflaan (Graveyard avenue, whats in a name…) and take a seat…

P.S. Is a bank: a. bench b. bank c. sofa?

A final resting place, cemetery Crooswijk

Rotterdam Daily Photo: A final resting place, cemetery Crooswijk
Rotterdam Daily Photo: A final resting place, cemetery Crooswijk

A few days ago I took another small photo walk and I passed the Crooswijk cemetery located at the Kerkhoflaan. It is an old and very beautiful cemetery with an old chapel, lots of nature and certainly with the beautiful spring weather a nice place to come to contemplate.

A short history; In 1829 it was decided that burial in the church was no longer allowed. The Municipality of Rotterdam built the first municipal cemetery: Crooswijk cemetery. The Rotterdam city architect Pieter Adams designed the cemetery. The cemetery was inaugurated in July 1832. The cemetery is not yet ready, but due to a cholera epidemic, Rotterdam has a large number of people to bury. There is also a military plot dedicated on May 30, 1940. Here 115 Dutch soldiers are buried. In addition, a separate section has been set up for Islamic funerals. Here, dead can be buried within 36 hours.