Pillars in a Mausoleum van Motman

Pillars in this place as if composed regularly. This location called Mausoleum van Motman, the tomb of the family van Motman, family landlord in Bogor when a dutch colonial period. After almost a century this family being a landlord in West Bogor, in 1953 the family descendants of the last van Motman leave Indonesia, so Mausoleum van Motman in kampong pilar untreated. But its might still felt, although the marbels and glasses that came from Italy has been lost pillaged. This pillars is gravestones tomb of family members van Motman.

In the yard Mausoleum van Motman in the past there were 33 tomb, although now there are 12 of tomb which can to identify,  two of them only punctuated with the bricks and stone tomb nature as usual. This tombs like pillars, because that this village has named kampong pilar.

Each building, the pillars in the cemetery consists of a part “bottom or legs, body, and head or peak”. The bottom squared rectangle, grew up shrink. The squared rectangular body part with a rectangular-shape niche In a part of walls. Above the niches there is arch-shaped ornaments. In the walls section that was installed a marble headstone.

The main building at the cemetery is stylized neo classic. Straight with the entrance gate of this cemetery yard. A number of the information obtained from, first mentioned that the main buildings is a mausoleum that is a copy of a “Cathedral of Santo Petrus” in Rome, Italy

The area it was first used as a grave at December 5^th, 1811, when Gerrit Willem Casimir van Motman (1773 – 1821), the man van motman first entered the buried in the land of java daughter Henrietta called Marry. At 17 years old, GWC trying to his fortune with Join VOC, sail East Indies to start a career as the administrator of the warehouse VOC. Finally, after bankrupt VOC in Bogor, GWC of being a landlord with total wide of the possession of 117.099 hectares. At the time of his life, he owns a home in the Dramaga called Groot Dramaga or Big Dramaga.

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