Garden policy: NETHERLANDS
Institution(s) in charge
- The Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands
It is responsible for policies and the register of 61.000 national listed monuments, including parks & gardens. The Agency does not own monuments.
Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap)
Smallepad 5, 3811 MG Amersfoort +33 421 7 421
Other actors
- Association of historic garden researchers and landscape-architects active in restoration: Vakgroep Groen
The Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands is responsible for policies and the register of 61.000 national listed monuments, including parks & gardens. The Agency does not own monuments.
Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap)
Smallepad 5, 3811 MG Amersfoort +33 421 7 421
Erfgoed - Association of landscaping companies & gardeners: Erfgoedhoveniers,
- Association of head-gardeners of country homes and estates: Vereniging Gilde van Tuinbazen
- Dutch Garden History Association: Cascade Tuinhistorisch Genootschap
- National foundation active in information on gardens and connecting professionals and public
Nederlandse Tuinenstichting, Amsterdam, - Digital Portal for Dutch Castles, Historic Country Houses and Rural Estates Foundation
Stichting Kastelen en Buitenplaatsen (sKBL) - Netherlands Association for Landscape Architecture (NVTL)
Jollemanhof 14, 1019 GW Amsterdam
Relevant legislation
- Monumentenwet 1988,
- See the country profile on Herein.
- In 2016 a new overall Heritage Act (Erfgoedwet) will be implemented.
Protection measures
About 1300 gardens, parks, cemeteries, etc. are protected mainly on national level, one level of protection. Some gardens are protected by local authorities (total numbers of these are unknown).
The Agency advises local authorities on permits for significant changes and restoration works
Existing inventories
Gids voor de Nederlandse tuin- en landschapsarchitectuur, Rotterdam: De Hef, 1995-2000, 4 volumes, by Oldenburger-Ebbers, C.S. ; Backer, A.M. ; Blok, E.
Almost 2000 parks and gardens per region, only the ones open to the public.
Therefore not matching completely with the list of protected gardens.
Online information
- Database on documents, park and garden descriptions and short biographies of architects, by Wageningen University
- RAF aerial Photographs
- Photographs by the Agency (Dutch)
- On Dutch Landscape in a broader sense
Specialised training
No formal specialized training at universities or any other level. More general Master studies like Heritage studies, Landscape design, Landscape history (not designed landscape), Art-history or Planning sometimes devote some attention to historical parks and gardens. There is no specialized training of gardeners either (maybe in 2017).
Long-life learning exist.
Congresses and meetings:
- Twice yearly meeting Platform Groen Erfgoed
- Meetings and excursions of the Dutch Garden History Association.
Occasional local or project-related meetings
Platform Groen Erfgoed is open for all professionals. Others are open for all.
Awareness-raising actions
Dag van het park
A national event (also in Flanders) taking place on the 29th May 2016 and open to all
Terminology tools
Thesaurus: partly multilingual and work in progress. Garden-terms are mixed in with other heritage terms (no separate set of terms for gardens)
Documentation
Not collected in one place. Work in progress
