Monuments in Noord-Holland

R. Stenvert en C. Kolman (2006)

Gepubliceerd op 26-03-2018

The High German-Isr cemetery in Muiderberg

betekenis & definitie

(Googweg 6) was founded in 1642 on a remainder of the moraine. That area was known as the Koggerbosch transfer point from the forem. Buitenplaats Hofrust, which was purchased in 1639 by Hoogduitse Jews from Amsterdam. A separate cemetery for Polish Jews from Amsterdam was built next door in 1660.

Both parts were merged in 1673, after which further expansions - in the polder land - followed in 1738, 1780, 1844 and 1859. The auditorium, the reception building with the administrators' house and the main house were built in 1933 after expressionist designs by H. Elte. The glass-in-lead work and the glass mosaic in art deco style in the meter house come from the studio Bogtman.

On the high part of the cemetery are still many 18th-century tombstones with Louis XIV ornaments, two white-marble sarcophagi decorated in Louis XIV style, as well as drowned as Sephardic Jews (1728). Also worth mentioning are the gravestone for top rabbits A.S. Teacher († 1835/5595), the two tombstones designed by H. Elte for his parents (1918 and 1920) and the tombstones for poet A.E. van Collem († 1933) and the social democrat H. Polak († 1943).