{"id":1509,"date":"2021-10-26T08:50:35","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T08:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/routevanverzoening.nl\/amersfoort\/keti-koti-path\/8-burgemeester-brouwerplantsoen\/"},"modified":"2022-10-31T12:32:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T12:32:08","slug":"8-burgemeester-brouwerplantsoen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/routevanverzoening.nl\/amersfoort\/en\/keti-koti-path\/8-burgemeester-brouwerplantsoen\/","title":{"rendered":"8. Burgemeester Brouwerplantsoen"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The Keti Koti path<\/h4>\n<h1>8. Burgemeester Brouwerplantsoen<\/h1>\n<h3>(3811 LM Amersfoort)<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not far from the two bronze chairs, there are a few gravestones in the public garden. These gravestones no longer contain any human remains but simply refer to the earlier General Citizens\u2019 Cemetery (Algemene Burgerlijke Begraafplaats). This cemetery was located here until Amersfoort\u2019s town hall was built in 1971. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The text on one of the gravestones reads: \u2018Here lies Jan Cock Blomhoff, former chief in Decima, born 5 Augustus 1779, died 13 October 1853. With his wife. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>(Text continues below the photo)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"routepic\" src=\"https:\/\/routevanverzoening.nl\/amersfoort\/img\/routes\/ketikoti\/kk7.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From 1817 to 1823, Jan Cock Blomhoff (1779-1853) was the \u2018chief\u2019 and leader of the Dutch trading post \u2018Deshima\u2019. This island was a Dutch trading post from 1641 until 1859 and was the only contact between the Western world and the largely closed-off Japan. After 1823, Blomhoff based himself in Amersfoort and built the Birkhoven house. He died in 1853 in Amersfoort and was buried at the \u2018Achter Davidshof\u2019 cemetery, where the town hall is now located.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Image; Archief Eemland, Dirk Steenbeek<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/routevanverzoening.nl\/amersfoort\/en\/ketikoti\/6-grote-koppel-7\/\">Previous stop<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/routevanverzoening.nl\/amersfoort\/en\/ketikoti\/\">Main Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"map\" style=\"border: 0; max-width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/widgets.scribblemaps.com\/sm\/?d&amp;z&amp;l&amp;gc&amp;af&amp;mc&amp;dfe&amp;lat=52.158539908&amp;lng=5.385144191&amp;vz=17&amp;type=custom_style&amp;ti&amp;s&amp;t=d&amp;width=550&amp;height=400&amp;id=RDVKetiKoti\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Keti Koti path 8. Burgemeester Brouwerplantsoen (3811 LM Amersfoort) Not far from the two bronze chairs, there are a few gravestones in the public garden. These gravestones no longer contain any human remains but simply refer to the earlier General Citizens\u2019 Cemetery (Algemene Burgerlijke Begraafplaats). 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These gravestones no longer contain any human remains but simply refer to the earlier General Citizens\u2019 Cemetery (Algemene Burgerlijke Begraafplaats). This cemetery was located here until Amersfoort\u2019s town hall&nbsp;&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/routevanverzoening.nl\/amersfoort\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/routevanverzoening.nl\/amersfoort\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/routevanverzoening.nl\/amersfoort\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routevanverzoening.nl\/amersfoort\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routevanverzoening.nl\/amersfoort\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/routevanverzoening.nl\/amersfoort\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1637,"href":"https:\/\/routevanverzoening.nl\/amersfoort\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1509\/revisions\/1637"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routevanverzoening.nl\/amersfoort\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/routevanverzoening.nl\/amersfoort\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}