This old disused cemetery was established in 1825. The cemetery will be redeveloped as a memorial park and open-air museum of the Overijse municipality’s funerary heritage.
The old entrance with its long entrance staircase will be restored and all graves will disappear except those along the cross-shaped axis pattern and some very valuable graves located against the cemetery wall. This will highlight the classical and mythological design of the cemetery’s cross division.
The names of the people who were on the removed gravestones will be mentioned on contemporary designed memorials that are scattered, in different modules, in the cemetery. The memorials will also allow seating for visitors. Future generations will always be able to find the name of their ancestors there. This memorial concept no longer allows the term ‘death and forgetting’ here.
The classical funerary heritage and contemporary memorials stand in a very soberly designed memorial park with a museal beauty. A park with lots of grass and multi-stemmed trees. A ‘garden of the dead’, an ‘Elysium’, a place to remember and commemorate. The reference to the ‘Elysium’ finds its real resonance in the interaction between the beautiful town and the surrounding beautiful ‘Arcadian’ hilly landscape.
These funerary monuments are part of the gamma AMA®
AMA® is a design with a protected brand name and was designed by Andy Malengier.
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