Doorn Cemetery
New General Cemetery
In the 1950s, a groundbreaking plan was made for the New General Cemetery by landscape architect Wim Boer. He made rectangular spaces carved out of the forest. In this way, he translated the functionalist ideals of the “New Building”. The layout of the graves was and is strictly directed, with uniform gravestones and without own grave planting.
Forest character is preserved
When the cemetery had to be expanded, the municipality wanted to offer more freedom in the layout of the new graves. In the plan by Buro Mien Ruys, a number of neat open grass areas were added that give structure to the forest area. In the forest, new graves are situated in groups along curved paths, between oaks, pines and groups of Rhodos. There, the grave can be arranged according to one's own insight. Existing trees have been carefully spared, so that the forest character is preserved.
