Properties with protected status
In the files below and on the cultural-historical values map, you can see which buildings and sites have protected status. Is your home listed here? If so, it’s important to know exactly what status your home has. There are three categories: national monuments, municipal monuments, and landmarks.
National Monuments
National monuments are buildings, objects or parks, which are of general interest on a national level because of its beauty, significance for science and/or cultural-historical value. The aim is to maintain their monumental value. These can be buildings, such as a house, church or mill, but also a memorial monument, archaeological sites, parks or country estates can be protected by the State.
Wassenaar has 385 national monuments, which are of national value because of their age, (building) history, architecture, urban cohesion or rarity.
You can view the descriptions through the National Cultural Heritage Agency (RCE) website. In it you can search by address or by monument or complex number.
Municipal monuments
The Heritage Vision shows that Wassenaar is rich in Cultural Heritage. It is important that the most valuable objects for the municipality are protected as municipal monuments. This is heritage that has especially local historical value. Wassenaar has 127 municipal monuments.
Iconic objects
A third category of valuable heritage consists of landmarks. They are protected under the Wassenaar Cultural Heritage, Buildings, and Objects, and Archaeological Heritage Umbrella Zoning Plan (2016). These buildings contribute to the distinctive character of Wassenaar. The protective regulations ensure the preservation of that character.
List of iconic objects and descriptions
The explanatory descriptions of landmark structures with high and very high cultural-historical values can be found in the files at the bottom of this page and in the aforementioned umbrella zoning plan.
Questions?
Do you have questions about cultural heritage? Email that to erfgoed@wassenaar.nl.