Schoonselhof cemetery

Schoonselhof Cemetery (Antwerpen Schoonselhof) is located in Hoboken, Antwerp, a suburb of Antwerp, Belgium.

View on a part of the cemetery

Castle Schoonselhof

Tomb of Hendrik Conscience

Coquilhat tomb

Schoonselhof Cemetery has an Islamic and Jewish section.

There is also a Commonwealth war graves plot containing the graves of 1,557 British Commonwealth service personnel who died in the World Wars, 101 from World War I and 1,455 from World War II, besides 16 Polish and 1 French war burial, a United States airman attached to the British Royal Air Force, and 16 non-war graves, mainly of merchant seamen. The plot was laid out by Principal Architect of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Philip Hepworth.^[1]

The cemetery was mentioned in the TV show GRIMM, Episode 14 of Season 1.

Notable interments

Roger Avermaete (1893–1988), author Lode Baekelmans [nl] (1879–1965), writer Désiré Beaurain (1881–1963), Olympic fencer Peter Benoit (1834–1901), composer Pierre Bruno Bourla (1783–1866), architect Gaston Burssens (1896–1965), writer Hendrik Conscience (1812–1883), writer Jan Cox (1919–1980), painter Henri De Braekeleer (1840–1888), artist Herman De Coninck (1944–1997), writer and journalist Willem Elsschot (1882–1960), author Vic Gentils [nl] (1919–1997), artist and sculptor Marnix Gijsen (1899–1984), writer

Ferre Grignard (1939–1982), rock singer Emiel van Heurck (1871–1931), folklorist Paul Mara (1920–1998), artist Alice Nahon (1896–1933), poet Hugues C. Pernath (1931–1975), writer Armand Preud'Homme (1904–1986), composer John Rankin Rathbone (1910–1940 †), British MP, (CWGC) François Rom (1882–1942), Olympic fencer Bernard Tokkie (1867–1942), opera singer August Van Cauwelaert [nl] (1885–1945), author Jos Van Eynde [nl] (1907–1992), journalist Paul Van Ostaijen (1896–1928), writer Gerard Walschap (1898–1989), writer