Begraafplaats Nijenstede incl. Commonwealth War Graves - Hardenberg NL
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N 52° 34.537 E 006° 37.358
32U E 338906 N 5827717
Cemetery named "Nijenstede" including Commonwealth War Graves located in the center of Hardenberg, The Netherlands.
Waymark Code: WMRJEF
Location: Overijssel, Netherlands
Date Posted: 06/28/2016
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Size (approx.): 6.800 m²
Number of graves: 365
Number of buried people: 573
Most common names:
ZWEERS (11x), BOERRIGTER (10x), WOLBINK (8x), JONKHANS (8x), WATERINK (8x), MEIJER (7x), BREUKELMAN (7x), BOSCH (7x), IEMHOFF (7x), KOESLAG (7x)
There are also buried 22 airmen. British, Canadians and Australians.
Various aircraft of the allied forces were shot in the area during World War II.
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One of these soldiers, Australian Pilot D.P. Drummond, has his own WWII monument in Bruchterveld. This is a Dutch place were his plane was shot down.
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Wikipedia reads about this cemetery:
The cemetery is one of the oldest cemeteries in the Netherlands. Originally this was the cemetery of the church of the city Nijenstede but after the bishop of Utrecht , Jan van Arkel , the city charter handed to Hardenberg, moved the bulk of the population. But they kept the dead buried in this cemetery and it still bears the name Nijenstede, whether it is called popularly known as "the old cemetery. The church has long stood in the cemetery, but it was demolished in 1653. According to writers of that time was the church when of 'miraculous antiquity."
The cemetery is now at the mall to Hardenberg. Hardenberg derived from the politician Jan Weitkamp was buried late 1946 in the cemetery. The cemetery was designated in 2002 as a municipal monument.