Schaerbeek Cemetery

Schaerbeek Cemetery
Schaerbeek Cemetery
Cimetière de Schaerbeek (French); Begraafplaats van Schaarbeek (Dutch);
	Entrance of the cemetery
Details
Location	Evere, Brussels-Capital Region
Country	Belgium
Coordinates	50°52′15″N 4°25′12″E / 50.87083°N 4.42000°E
Type	Public, non-denominational

Schaerbeek Cemetery (French: Cimetière de Schaerbeek; Dutch: Begraafplaats van Schaarbeek), officially Schaerbeek New Cemetery (French: Nouveau Cimetière de Schaerbeek, Dutch: Nieuwe Begraafplaats van Schaarbeek), is a cemetery belonging to Schaerbeek in Brussels, Belgium, where the municipality's inhabitants have the right to be buried. It is not located in Schaerbeek itself; rather it is partially in the neighbouring municipality of Evere, and partially in the village of Sint-Stevens-Woluwe in Zaventem, Flemish Brabant. The cemetery is adjacent to Brussels Cemetery and Evere Cemetery, but should not be confused with either.

Location and accessibility edit

Schaerbeek Cemetery is surrounded by the Avenue Jules Bordet/Jules Bordetlaan, the Rue d'Evere/Eversestraat and the Kleine Eversweg. The entry is in Evere on the Avenue Jules Bordet.

Immediately to the west of Schaerbeek Cemetery, and separated from it by a walkway, is Evere Cemetery.^[1]

Notable interments edit

The tomb of the painter René Magritte and his wife

Personalities buried there include:

Henri Jaspar (1870–1939), lawyer and politician
Andrée de Jongh (1916–2007), World War II resistance, leader of the Comet Line
René Magritte (1898–1967), Belgian surrealist, and his wife Georgette^[2]^[3]
Marcel Mariën (1920–1993), surrealist artist
Gabrielle Petit (1893–1916), World War I spy for the Allies

References edit

Citations edit

^ Bruxelles / Brussel Atlas (Map). Michelin. 1999. p. 26. § F13.
^ Erlend Clouston (21 July 2001). "After Magritte". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 August 2008.
^ The grave of René Magritte and Georgette Berger is noted as being located at plot 16, row 2, 26th tombstone, concession 3047 in this document: "Notice of classification as a monument of René Magritte and Georgette Berger's grave" (PDF) (in French and Dutch). Government of the Brussels Capital Region. 21 November 2006. Retrieved 4 October 2010.

Bibliography edit

Celis, Marcel (2004). Cimetières et nécropoles. Bruxelles, ville d'Art et d'Histoire (in French). Vol. 38. Brussels: Éditions de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale.

External links edit

Media related to Schaerbeek Cemetery at Wikimedia Commons

[1] Bruxelles / Brussel Atlas (Map). Michelin. 1999. p. 26. § F13.

[2] Erlend Clouston (21 July 2001). "After Magritte". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 August 2008.

[3] The grave of René Magritte and Georgette Berger is noted as being located at plot 16, row 2, 26th tombstone, concession 3047 in this document: "Notice of classification as a monument of René Magritte and Georgette Berger's grave" (PDF) (in French and Dutch). Government of the Brussels Capital Region. 21 November 2006. Retrieved 4 October 2010.

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