O.-L.-Vrouw-ter-Duinenkerk

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Dorpsstraat z/n
Oostende 8400
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The Dune church was made a listed monument in 1946. The trapezoidal cemetery with lawns, weeping willows and shrubs followed suit in 1975. Many of the people who are buried here belonged to well-known families of Mariakerke. Leopold Passchyn was Mariakerke’s last mayor (they have even named a street after him in Mariakerke). James Ensor is also buried here, near his beloved Dune church, which he helped protect against demolition in the late 19th Century. Every year in April, they organise the Ensor commemoration here. In 1979 and 1981, the dune and polder landscape and the church surroundings were listed as a protected landscape.