Graf met de handjes | |
![]() The monument in 2016 | |
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51°10′52.1″N 6°0′0.5″E / 51.181139°N 6.000139°E | |
Location | Begraafplaats Nabij Kapel in 't Zand, Roermond, Netherlands |
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Type | Funerary monument |
Material | Limestone,[1] sandstone, hardstone[2] |
Completion date | c. 1888[3] |
Restored date | 1972,[3] 2015–2016[4][1] |
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The Grave with the Hands (Dutch: Graf met de handjes, lit. 'Grave with the little hands') is a 19th-century funerary monument in the Dutch city of Roermond. It comprises two almost identical tombstones on either side of a wall separating the Catholic part from the Protestant part of Begraafplaats Nabij de Kapel in 't Zand (Cemetery Near the Chapel in the Sand), each with a carved arm and hand that clasps the other across the wall. The monument marks the graves of Josephina van Aefferden, a Catholic, and Jacobus van Gorkum, a Protestant, who were married in life, but had to be buried in separate sections of the cemetery. It was listed as a rijksmonument (state monument) in 2002.
So yes, I'm proud that I did the restoration of this iconic grave. The headstone of the grave of the colonel and the hands that connects the two stones were carved in a similar limestone last year.
Cultureel Erfgoed
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).Het befaamde 'graf met de handjes' dateert waarschijnlijk uit 1888.
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