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Landlopers Cemetery Wortel-Kolonie

Landlopers Cemetery Wortel-Kolonie

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Landlopers Cemetery Wortel-Kolonie

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Location: Hoogstraten, Turnhout, Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium

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2. From Hoogstraten to Wortel-Kolonie

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VISITFLANDERS

August 31, 2021

Cemeteries always touch us because they address the inevitable: no matter how different people were during their lifetime - in the end, everyone is the same. This is especially true when the graves erase individuality, as is the case with this burial site with 170 graves of "landlopers" who had to do work here - often involuntarily.

What remains is not the biography of the individual, just his number and the result of his work - the cultural landscape of the Wortel colony.

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🇧🇪 Herwig Aertbeliën

December 30, 2021

The cemetery with 170 graves is a reminder of those who - mostly involuntarily - created the magnificent domain with hard work. They lived, like a number, on the edge of society.
For us, this is a conscious tradition to visit the vagabonds of yesteryear during the Christmas period (alternating Merksplas - Wortel).

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Viviane

August 17, 2025

Wortel-Kolonie Vagrants' Cemetery
This historic cemetery, nestled in the woods of Wortel-Kolonie, commemorates the vagrants who stayed here between 1890 and 1940. Approximately 170 graves are numbered, some with names, and tell the story of the former charitable colony. A quiet, impressive place steeped in history and remembrance.

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Location: Hoogstraten, Turnhout, Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium

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Landlopers Cemetery Wortel-Kolonie

1. Caught between border and green

2. From Hoogstraten to Wortel-Kolonie

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