Road · Fort Kochi
Dutch Cemetery Road
Leads past the Dutch Cemetery and other colonial landmarks.
Dutch Cemetery Road leads to the Dutch Cemetery in Fort Kochi, a burial ground near the seafront, a short walk from St Francis Church.
The cemetery holds 104 tombs and epitaphs, many cut from granite and local laterite, with inscriptions from the Dutch and later British communities of Fort Kochi. The oldest dated Dutch monument here is the grave of Johan Daimichen, who lived from 1728 to 1784.
The Dutch took Cochin from the Portuguese in 1663, and the cemetery was founded in 1724 for Dutch colonial officials, military officers, merchants and their families. After the British took the town in 1795 it went on taking European burials. The last recorded burial was Captain Joseph Ethelbert Winckler’s, in 1913, and the Archaeological Survey of India now protects the site.
The cemetery gate is normally kept shut. Access runs through St Francis CSI Church, which manages the cemetery and keeps its burial records.
Did you know
The Dutch Cemetery in Fort Kochi contains 104 tombs and epitaphs and is protected by the Archaeological Survey of India.
The Dutch Cemetery in Fort Kochi is managed by the Church of South India and is normally kept closed; visitors may request access through St Francis CSI Church.
Captain Joseph Ethelbert Winckler’s burial in 1913 is recorded as the last at the Dutch Cemetery in Fort Kochi.
The Dutch Cemetery in Fort Kochi was established in 1724 and holds the graves of the Dutch community at Cochin and of later European residents.
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