Municipal monument

You are in the smallest general cemetery in the Netherlands. General cemeteries were used to bury people who were denied a place in Roman Catholic cemeteries, such as crooks, suicide bombers and Protestants. 

Samuel van Hoven, notary and mayor of Son en Breugel between 1833 and 1852, is buried here because he was a Protestant. He was originally buried in the garden of his house at 12 Dommelstraat, because no Protestants were allowed to be buried in the Catholic cemetery. When his wife Wilhelmina Jacoba van Heusden died in 1895, both were buried here.