Monumentenzorg
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Monumentenzorg (English: "Monument Care") is a Dutch heritage organisation working for the protection and conservation of local, national and international monuments.
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[edit] Overview
Monumentenzorg falls under the responsibility of the Dutch Ministry of Education and Culture.
[edit] Categorization of monuments
The ministry maintains various lists of protected monuments in the Netherlands. These lists are categorized as fallows:
- World Heritage Site
- Rijksmonument, or national monuments
- Provincial monuments
- Monuments in cities kept by a local 'stadsherstel' organization, such as Stadsherstel Amsterdam
- Local town efforts to protect buildings or areas of interest by 'schoonheids commissies'.
Schoonheids commissies (rough translation: Beauty committees) are usually grassroots efforts to prevent the destruction of old buildings, something the Dutch do often and is a necessary evil for an over-populated country whose neglected buildings have a tendency to blow down in the wind or sink into the mud.
[edit] Monumenten dag
Once a year, all monuments are open to the public on Monument Day.
[edit] Type of monuments
- Waterworks relating to hydraulic science
- Buildings or structures of historic interest
- Parks of historic interest, or ecological importance
- Feats of engineering
- Artistic sculptures
- Historic Art collections
- Old trees or old woods (in Holland it is rare for a tree to reach a great age)
- War memorials
