Changing a resting place

Would you like a different resting place for a grave or urn? Read about the options.

After burial (exhumation)

To assign another resting place after burial, you can request an exhumation. Attention: the mayor can only give permission for this for exceptional and compelling reasons.

Price

€ 1.991.

After cremation

With cremation, there are more options to change the resting place. Sometimes you can even take the funerary urn home from the cemetery.

Price

  • The cost of exhuming an urn is € 332.
  • Is the storage period for the urn at a cemetery coming to an end? Then you can take the urn home with you free of charge.

How to apply?

Please contact us. This is also necessary if the storage period is coming to an end and you wish to take the urn home with you free of charge.

Cemeteries department

After keeping it at home

Are you keeping the urn at home, but would you rather keep it at a cemetery? That is possible. Contact the cemetery service to discuss the options.

Keeping or burying the urn

To keep or bury the urn at a cemetery, you pay a concession fee.
View the options and prices

Scattering ashes

Scattering ashes in a scattering garden is free of charge. Contact us to make an appointment:

Cemeteries department

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