![]() Walking around at Huis te Vraag is like walking through the garden of an ancient fairy tale. He turned out to be our guide for the day. It was of one of the cemetery’s residents who hurried over to come and greet us: this curious black cat. This is why although the cemetery is relatively tiny, it holds so many bodies.Īs we made our way through the entrance gate, we heard a loud meowing in the distance. ![]() Back in the days, caskets were stacked on top of each other in graves as deep as five meters in the ground. It keeps about 12.000 buried bodies, but it has the size of a small city park. We ventured out there on a warm summer day, which turned out to be the perfect timing. Surrounded by a lush variation of plants and trees, the area of the cemetery is quite tiny. It is open for visitors all year round and is being maintained by two local Dutch artists, who live in the former auditorium. Since then Huis te Vraag has been a cultural-historical monumental property. Up until 1962, when the local authorities decided to close the cemetery for further burials. The estate of Huis te Vraag stems from the 15th century and has been in use as a farm, a shipyard and a cotton factory, until it got reassigned its new function as a Protestant cemetery in 1891. ![]() In the south of Amsterdam, hidden in the midst of a residential area on the outskirts of the city, lies one of the most beautiful cemeteries of the Netherlands: Huis te Vraag. ![]()
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