Municipal Archives

• Historical images. In the Image Documents collection (Digital Photo Archive) you will find over 12,000 scans of photographs and picture postcards from Wassenaar from the period 1860-present and of older prints. From Voorschoten, nearly 3,000 scans of photographs and picture postcards are now included in the collection. More scans of images of Voorschoten will follow.
• Newspaper collection and directories. Are you looking for information about an event, a newspaper article or an advertisement? Or are you looking for the address of a person or the names of all the residents of a street? The newspaper collection offers you scans of De Wassenaarsche Courant from 1919-1941, the Weekblad voor Roomsch Wassenaar from 1929-1930, Roomsch Wassenaar from 1929-1939 and Groot Wassenaar from 1933-1939. The scans of Het Wassenaars Nieuwsblad/ De Morgenpost from 1945-1992 and of De Wassenaarder from 1951-1992 are not allowed to be shown for copyright reasons. These newspapers are searchable, but the scans can only be viewed during a visit to the municipal archives. In the collection of address books you will find scans of address books of Wassenaar from 1917, 1923, 1927-1941, 1947, 1951-1952, 1960 and 1967 and scans of address books of Voorschoten from 1953, 1957, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1971, 1972, 1975 and 1978.
• Persons, Deeds and Registers. Via Deeds/Registers and via Persons you can search the birth certificates from 1811-1912 (both Wassenaar and Voorschoten), marriage certificates from 1811-1940 (Voorschoten up to and including 1932) and death certificates from 1811-1963 (Voorschoten up to and including 1960) of the civil registries of Wassenaar and Voorschoten. To the marriage certificates 1812-1842 of Wassenaar and Voorschoten, the marriage annexes have also been added. Scans of all certificates and annexes are also shown. Via Deeds/registers and via Persons you can search the Reformed baptismal registers of Voorschoten from 1621-1811 by name. Scans of these baptismal registers are also shown. The baptismal, marriage, and burial registers and the gaarder registers of Wassenaar can be viewed (search for DTB-W* or gaarder*). These are not indexed by name. Also, the population registers of Wassenaar from 1839-1934 are now scanned and searchable by name.
• Books and Journals. You can view the library catalog of the Municipal Archives here. Here you will find titles of books, magazines and documentation folders about Wassenaar, Voorschoten and the region. The number of titles will be further expanded in the near future.
• Useful link for genealogical research. 

Material offline

The Wassenaar Municipal Archives has decided to take all scans of anonymous postcards offline. More than 1,000 images are involved. Recently, the subdistrict court in The Hague, sentenced Erfgoed Leiden to a fine for publishing anonymous picture postcards online. As a result of this ruling, we no longer consider it responsible to make these kinds of images available online.

Learn more

• The Wassenaar census of 1829
• What is kept in the archive?
• Inventories Wassenaar

Opening hours and location

The archive is located in Raadhuis De Paauw at Raadhuislaan 22, 2242 CP Wassenaar. The reading room is open by appointment. Please contact us at archief@wassenaar.nl for more information or to schedule your visit.