Villa Maarheeze was home of the Dutch foreign intelligence service Inlichtingendienst Buitenland , a service that existed from the end of World War II to 1994. The villa is located in the city of Wassenaar , at Rijksstraatweg 675 , but is no longer in use by the Dutch government.
4-477: Villa Maarheeze was established in 1914 and is a Rijksmonument . Villa Maarheeze was also used as name of a work on the Foreign Intelligence Service, Villa Maarheeze: de geschiedenis van de inlichtingendienst buitenland (1998), a book written by Bob de Graaff and Cees Wiebes. This Dutch-history -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about
8-536: A Dutch building or structure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Rijksmonument A rijksmonument ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈrɛiksmoːnyˌmɛnt] , lit. ' state monument ' ) is a national heritage site of the Netherlands , listed by the agency Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (RCE) acting for the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science . At
12-540: The end of February 2015, the Netherlands had 61,822 listed national heritage sites, of which approximately 1,500 are listed as archaeological sites. Until 2012, a place had to be over 50 years old to be eligible for designation. This criterion expired on 1 January 2012. The current legislation governing the monuments is the Monumentenwet van 1988 ("Monument Law of 1988"). The organization responsible for caring for
16-632: The monuments, which used to be called Monumentenzorg , was recently renamed, and is now called Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (national service for cultural heritage). In June 2009, the Court of The Hague decided that individual purchasers of buildings that were listed as rijksmonuments would be exempt from paying transfer tax, effective from 1 May 2009. Previously this exemption had only applied to juridical entities . Many Dutch tourist attractions are rijksmonuments, such as castles or windmills . Some notable windmills are De Schoolmeester, Westzaan ,
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