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Description

Description component 1: Cemetery.

Jewish CEMETERY with 124 grave monuments, laid out for the Neie Kille at Overveen, founded in 1797. The cemetery is laid out on a rectangular plot, originally entirely free of vegetation. No design for the layout exists. Meanwhile the cemetery has become entirely overgrown with deciduous and coniferous trees, principally self-seeded growth from the surrounding area. The ecologically grown situation (vegetation with deciduous and coniferous trees) is experienced as important, on account of the image the cemetery evokes. On the cemetery there are still 124 grave monuments, including one tomb for the rabbi of the new congregation, Izak Graanboom. The remaining grave monuments are principally stèles, all placed in rows oriented more or less north-west/south-east. In a number of cases the graves are placed head-to-feet, in other cases head-to-head. The majority of the older grave monuments are exceptionally well executed and very well preserved. Noteworthy in this respect is the frequently extensive Hebrew and - in a number of cases - Dutch text, which can be traced back to the first period of the Neie Kille and the emancipation movement associated with it. Most grave monuments have engraved text, which made the gravestones costly. Especially the older grave monuments are remarkably richly decorated. Particularly notable is also the gravestone of the Wertheim children, on account of the presence of a Hebrew poem.

There is also a fine Parnose row, the row in which the initiators of 1797 are buried, with behind it a separate row for their wives. On this row amongst others the graves of renowned Dutch citizens such as the jurist Asser, the prominent banker and philanthropist A.C. Wertheim (1832-1897) and Mr. Dr. Lodewijk E. Visser (1871-1942), President of the Supreme Court until 1940 and leader in the resistance during the Second World War.

The grave monuments encountered are principally hewn from hard stone with rough working on the reverse side.

Valuation

The Jewish CEMETERY (1797) is of general cultural-historical, genealogical and funerary-historical importance:

- on account of its age and history of use;

- on account of the materials used and the symbolism applied;

- as a special and unique example of an emancipatory movement among Dutch Jews at the end of the 18th century;

- on account of the high funerary-historical and national genealogical value for the history of Dutch Jewry in general and that of the Jewish congregation of Amsterdam in particular;

- on account of the reasonable to substantial degree of integrity of the various components;

- on account of its uniqueness at national level.