Complex Berkenheuveldreef

English translation

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Description

Introduction

The GRAVE MONUMENT consisting of four graves - including that of Jozeph Hartogensis - is located on the north-western corner of the cemetery, where the oldest grave monuments are found. The Hartogensis family held a prominent position within the Jewish community in 's-Hertogenbosch: Herodes Hartogensis was Parnas (church warden) of a private synagogue on the Mortelgang in 's-Hertogenbosch. The grave monument, which dates from around the middle of the nineteenth century, consists of four burial tombs placed one behind the other with gravestones, which display neo-Gothic detailing, surrounded by an ornamental iron fence. The gravestones bear Hebrew inscriptions, with the exception of the gravestone of Jozeph Hartogensis, on which a Dutch inscription is also inscribed along the lower edge. The inscriptions are heavily worn.

Description

The grave monument consists of four burial tombs placed one behind the other with sandstone gravestones. The grave monuments consist of a hardstone rectangular base plate with an obliquely placed hardstone cover plate. Behind this a sandstone gravestone. The individual graves are surrounded by a wrought-iron ornamental fence. The grave monuments with their accompanying ornamental fences have different dimensions. The grave gravestones do, however, display a coherent design. The gravestones contain the inscription in the middle within an ornamental border. At the top the central section of the gravestone is decorated with a saddle-back arch, filled with a multi-lobed arch with foliage ornament. This central section is flanked by tracery pilasters with three-lobed pointed arches. At the top the gravestone is closed off by a cornice. The space between the saddle-back arch and the cornice is filled with closed tracery. Around the graves are ornamental fences with slender stiles, which are connected at the top and bottom by a rail with quatrefoils.

The gravestone at the front of the grave monument is severely damaged: the upper half of the gravestone, which broke off obliquely is missing and only part of the Hebrew inscription and the ornamental border is still visible. The third gravestone marks the grave of Jozeph Hartogensis (died in 1864), the designer of the gate building of the Jewish cemetery. This grave monument has, uniquely - apart from the Hebrew script - also a Dutch inscription: "Here lies buried Jozeph Hartogensis, in life painter, son of Bernardus Hartogensis (...illegible)". The ornamental fence around the grave monument on the rear of the grave monument is executed more soberly than the ornamental fences of the other graves.

Valuation

The grave monument is of general importance. It possesses cultural-historical value as a distinctive expression of spiritual and socio-economic developments: it illustrates the growth of the Jewish community in 's-Hertogenbosch and Vught in the nineteenth century and Jewish burial customs in this period. The grave monument is of art-historical importance because of the neo-Gothic style, the high-quality aesthetic qualities and the distinctive detailing. The grave monument has ensemble value as an essential component of a larger whole that is of cultural-historical national importance. Finally, the grave monument is of importance because of typological rarity.