Begraafplaats, Oude Zeeweg tegenover 32

English translation

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Description

Introduction

The public cemetery of Noordwijk was established in 1829 by contractor Timotheus van Paddenburg from Warmond according to a design by Salomon van der Paauw, city architect of Leiden.

In 1931 the cemetery was extended on the north and west sides with terraces in the dunes.

Description

The oldest section of the cemetery consists of a walled, nearly square plot of land with one straight main axis (north-south). In the dunes on the north and west sides, terraces built of brick. From the access gate, a gravel path flanked by trees runs in a northerly direction with a transverse axis in a westerly direction. The paths provide access to the stairs that serve the terraces. The brickwork and stairs of the terraces are executed in red brick, the treads are covered with square red tiles. In the middle of the western terraces a semicircular brick stair.

Valuation

The simple early nineteenth-century layout of the Noordwijk cemetery is, in combination with the specific terraces from 1931, of general importance because of its cultural and (garden) architectural-historical value due to its rarity and reasonable degree of intactness.