Concessions

What is a concession?

Do you want a corpse or the ashes of a corpse to remain in the cemetery for longer than 20 years? If so, you have to buy a concession. It means you rent a piece of land, a columbarium niche or an urn vault.

With a concession, you are assured of the resting place for a period of 25 years (50 years for vaults).

You can buy a concession for more than one person. You then decide who will also be buried in the grave later.

How do you buy a concession?

You buy a concession through the funeral director or from the cemeteries department.

How do you extend a concession?

You can extend the duration of a concession.

• Per 5-year period, for up to 25 years (if all places in the concession are full)
• For 25 years (mandatory if not all places in the concession are already full)
• For 50 years (for vaults)

Extending a concession

Expired or renouncing a concession duration

• For a burial in open ground
  When the term of the concession has expired, we remove the gravestone and the remains stay at the site. If this is not possible, the remains may eventually be transferred to an ossuary.
• For funeral urns
  When the duration of the concession ends, we scatter the ashes. You can then obtain a symbolic portion of ashes for free.Don't want the ashes scattered? Then you have to request an exhumation and can take a funerary urn home. You request an exhumation from the cemeteries department.

Renouncing a concession duration

You can also renounce a grave concession.

Renounce a concession