Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed

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Headquarters of the RCE in Amersfort

The Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (abbreviated RCE ; German  "Reichsdienst für das Kulturelle Erbgut" ) is the implementation, implementation and research organization of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science ( Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap ) with responsibility for everyone Areas of cultural heritage: archeology , monuments including architectural and ground monuments , movable heritage and cultural landscape . It is the highest authority for monument protection and preservation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands . The administration is located in Amersfoort ( province of Utrecht ).

Jan Kalf (1873–1954), first director of the Rijksbureau voor de Monumentenzorg (1918–1939)

Historical development

Active monument protection was first tackled by the Dutch government in 1875 when the Department of Arts and Sciences ( Afdeling Kunsten en Wetenschappen ) was established in the Ministry of the Interior ( Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken ). In the first years of its existence (1875-1901) it was under the direction of Victor de Stuers . The department's task was to provide grants for the restoration of monuments.

In 1903 a national commission was established to take stock and document the monuments in the Netherlands. It was under the direction of the architect Eduard Cuypers (1854–1927). The work of the commission led to the fact that in 1918 the Rijksbureau voor de Monumentenzorg ("Reich Office for Monument Protection / Monument Preservation") was founded, which existed until 1946. Jan Kalf , who had previously been Cuypers' secretary, became the first director from 1918 to 1939 . In 1946 the name was changed to Rijksdienst voor de Monumentenzorg (RDMZ) (“Reich Service for Monument Protection / Monument Preservation”).

The archaeological department was split off as an independent organization in 1946 under the name Rijksdienst voor het Oudheidkundig Bodemonderzoek (ROB) ("Reich Service for Archaeological Soil Research"). Its longstanding director from 1965 to 1988 was Wim van Es . In 1995 the Nederlands Instituut voor Scheeps- en onderwaterarcheologie (NISA) (“Dutch Institute for Ship and Underwater Archeology”) was integrated into the ROB. In 2006 all services were merged again. This new overall organization was called Rijksdienst voor Archeologie, Cultuurlandschap en Monumenten (RACM) (“Reich Service for Archeology, Cultural Landscape and Monuments”) until 2009 . Due to its length, the name of the service regularly caused impractical situations, so an alternative name was sought. An abbreviation should not be used either, as was the case with ROB and RDMZ in the past. The name was therefore changed in 2009 to Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed . Since 2011, the core tasks of the Instituut Collectie Nederland (ICN) (“Institute for Dutch Collections”), its collection management as well as the development and dissemination of knowledge have been assigned to the Rijksdienst .

Susan Lammers has been director of the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed since January 1st, 2018 . She replaced Cees van 't Veen, who had headed the RCE since 2008.

Goal setting, tasks and organization

The aim of the Rijksdienst is to protect and preserve monuments as well as archaeological, movable and cultural landscape values ​​of national and international importance. The service performs the related tasks under the Dutch Monument Act ( Monumentenwet ) of 1988 and manages the list of monuments and the Archaeological Information System (ARCHIS).

The Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed is divided into an administrative and a technical area. The administrative area includes departments for communication, controlling , data, digital infrastructure, finances and facilities , legal matters, the maritime depot, personnel & organization, strategy & international affairs as well as legal tasks. The departments for Archeology, Conservation & Restoration, Art Collections, Landscape, Monuments & Collections, Central-South Region, Northeast Region and Northwest Region are assigned to the specialist area.

Locations

Until 2009 the RACM had three branches in Zeist , Amersfoort and Lelystad . In 2009 the Zeist branch merged with the Amersfoort branch. Since 2011, the RCE has had two further branches in Amsterdam , with a focus on conservation and restoration , and in Rijswijk , where there is a large depot. The Lelystad location was closed in 2016.

RCE building in Amersfoort (right), left the medieval city gate Koppelpoort

Amersfoort

A new, large and ultra-modern building was erected in Amersfoort, designed by the Spanish architect Juan Navarro Baldeweg on behalf of the Rijksgebouwendienst (Government Building Authority). On the side facing the city, the building has a sloping facade with a double, heat-regulating glass layer. The official opening including the library, the large archive and the collections of photos and drawings was made on June 24, 2009 by Queen Beatrix . Until spring 2014 the building also housed the Kunsthal KAdE (Kunsthalle KADe; KADe stands for Kunst aan de Eem / "Art on the Eem").

Lelystad (until 2016)

The Lelystad branch was responsible for the management and preservation of the archaeological maritime heritage of the Netherlands until 2016 (instead of the NISA integrated into the RDMZ in 1995). The building on the coast of the IJsselmeer was 140 meters long and twelve meters high and had the shape of an inverted hull. This form was symbolic of the content, but also had a practical and economic background. The aim was to create as much interior space as necessary with as little outer skin as possible, which ensured low energy consumption. The building was designed by the Rotterdam architect Kees Christiaanse . In 2016 this branch of the RCE was dissolved. The national marine archaeological collection was transferred to the Stichting Erfgoed Batavialand ("Batavialand Heritage Foundation"), and the building was finally demolished.

Libraries, image database and provision of images

Library entrance area

Since 1875, the various organizations that have since merged into the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed have been collecting books, magazines and sources on the subjects of art, building history, local history, monument preservation, landscape, archeology, geology as well as monument preservation and restoration technology. All of these holdings were brought together in the central library in Amersfoort in 2009. In 2011 the library holdings of the former Dutch Institute for Dutch Collections ( Instituut Collectie Nederland ) were expanded. The library is open to the interested public. The library's holdings can be viewed on site, but are not loaned out. The library now has around 125,000 books (including 3,000 old editions from the period before 1900), around 8,000 current or completed journal series (for which there are over 100,000 article references in the catalogs), as well as around 25,000 archaeological, architectural and other reports.

In addition to the large collection of books and magazines, the library also manages a number of special collections. In 2006, the entire collection of drawings, manuscripts, photos and inventories from the Stichting Historisch Boerderij-Ozoek (SHBO) (Foundation for Historical Farm Research ) was taken over. The archive of the decorative painter and restorer Jacob Por is also located in the library. The library holdings from the ICN art collection, which the RCE manages on behalf of the Dutch state, are located in Rijswijk. In particular, there are titles on painting and sculpture as well as artist monographs and exhibition catalogs. The branch in Amsterdam has a special library on the topics of museum management, the conservation and restoration of all kinds of materials, artistic techniques and research methods. The collection there includes books, magazines, conference reports, audiovisual media and dissertations. The Conservation Information Network (BCIN) and the Nederlandse Centrale Catalogus (NCC-OBN) can also be viewed online there.

The Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed has a picture collection with almost a million photographs. Since 2011, over 450,000 Wikimedia Commons have been made freely available. Of these hundreds of thousands of pictures, around a thousand are by the photographers Cornelis Steenbergh, Paul van Galen, Anton Bicker Caarten, Klaas Uilkema, and G.Th. Delemarre has been included.

Publications

As part of its duties, the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed appears as editor and publisher. In addition to a large number of monographs, he also publishes the digitally accessible magazine series

  • Tijdschrif van de Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed , appears three times a year; and
  • Report on Archeologische Monumentenzorg , irregularly published, founded by the ROB in 1998 and continued by the RACM in 2006.

The ROB already had the series of publications that appear regularly between 1950 and 2006

  • ROB reports (Reports van de Rijksdienst before het Outheidkundig Bodemonderzoek) published.

The RACM series was published between 2006 and 2009

  • Nieuwsbrief RACM .

literature

  • Gerda de Bruijn: Wet op de archeologische monumentenzorg . Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, Amersfoort 2007, ( digitized ).
  • Leo Hendriks and Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed: Richtlinjen bouwhistorisch onderzoek. Lezen en analyseren van cultuurhistorisch onderzoek . Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, Amersfoort 2009.
  • Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (editor): Geef de toekomst een verleden Visie. Missie en strategy van de Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed 2014-2018 . Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, Amersfoort 2013, ( digitized ).
  • J. Renes et al .: Werven en connect. Krimp en erfgoed in Europe, met Praktijkvoorbeelden uit Duitsland, Engeland, Frankrijk en Nederland . Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, Amersfoort 2014.
  • Els Romeijn and Iepie Roorda: Jurisprudentie op het gebied van erfgoed en ruimte . Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, Amersfoort 2018, ( digitized ).
  • Bren De Vries, Dré Van Marrewijk and Maarten Reith: Werken aan werelderfgoed. Zes uitdagingen in de practice. Manual . Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, Amersfoort 2017, ( digitized ).

Web links

Commons : Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed , official website of the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (Dutch), accessed on 19 November 2018
  • Monument register , directory of all over 61,000 Rijksmonumenten in the Netherlands on the official website of the RCE (Dutch), accessed on November 20, 2018.
  • Archeologie in Nederland , a website of the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed on archeology in the Netherlands (Dutch), accessed on November 19, 2018
  • Beeldbank , image database with almost a million images on the website of the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (Dutch), accessed on November 19, 2018
  • Collectie Nederland: Musea, Monuments en Archeologie , database on art collections in the Netherlands with almost six million objects on the website of the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (Dutch), accessed on November 19, 2018

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Th.H. Lunsingh Scheurleer; Stuers, yr. Victor Eugène Louis de (1843-1916) . In: Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland 1, Huygens ING, The Hague 1979, ( digitized ).
  2. ^ AAM de Jong: Kalf, Jan (1873-1954) . In: Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland Volume 2. The Hague 1985 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Via the ROB on the Geheugen van Drenthe encyclopedic website (Dutch), accessed on November 19, 2018.
  4. ↑ Eric Hendriks: Scheepsarcheologie is miskenning te boven in the online edition of de Volkskrant of January 30, 1999 (Dutch), accessed on November 20, 2018.
  5. ↑ Via the RACM on the official website of the National Archives (Dutch), accessed on November 19, 2018.
  6. ↑ Susan Lammers algemeen directeur Rijksdienst Cultureel Erfgoed (RCE) , in the online edition of the Monumentaal magazine of November 24, 2017 (Dutch), accessed on November 19, 2018.
  7. ↑ Notice of resignation from Cees van 't Veens on the official website of the RCE (Dutch), accessed on November 19, 2018.
  8. ↑ Text from Monumentenwet 1988 on the government website Wetten.overheid.nl (Dutch), accessed on November 19, 2018.
  9. ^ Monument register on the official website of the RCE (Dutch), accessed on November 20, 2018.
  10. ↑ ARCHIS login (registration required) on the official RCE website (Dutch), accessed on November 19, 2018.
  11. ↑ Organizatie en mandaten van de Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed of April 24, 2014, on the official website of the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (Dutch), accessed on November 20, 2018.
  12. ↑ Brief description of the division of tasks of the RCE on the website parlement.com (Dutch), accessed on November 20, 2018.
  13. ↑ Wichard Maassen: Voorbereidingen voor megaverhuizing van 65,000 artworks , in the online edition of the General Dagblad from July 18, 2018 (Dutch), accessed on November 20, 2018.
  14. ↑ Description of the construction project on the website architectuur.nl (Dutch), accessed on November 19, 2018.
  15. ↑ Description of the building , formerly on the website of the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed , now on the Internet Archive , (Dutch), accessed on November 19, 2018.
  16. ↑ Batavialand , official website of the Batavialand Museum (Dutch), accessed on November 19, 2018.
  17. ^ Catalog search engine of the library of the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (Dutch), accessed on November 19, 2018.
  18. ↑ Folder of the library on the official website of the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (Dutch), accessed on November 19, 2018.
  19. ↑ Brief message about the dissolution of the foundation and the takeover of the archive by the RCE on the website documentatie.org (Dutch), accessed on November 19, 2018.
  20. ↑ To the Amsterdam Library on the website adamnet.nl (Dutch), accessed on November 20, 2018.
  21. ↑ Beeldbank , image database with almost one million images on the website of the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (Dutch), accessed on November 19, 2018.
  22. ↑ Paul Keller: 449.318 foto's van de Rijksdienst Cultureel Erfgoed onder CC on the website creativecommons.nl (Dutch), accessed on November 19, 2018.
  23. ↑ Jaarboek Monumentenzorg 2000. De bouwkunst vereeuwigd. Architecture Immortalized Photography voor monumentenzorg. Photography for Conservation . Waanders, Zwolle and Rijksdienst voor de Monumentenzorg, Zeist 2000, ( digitized version ).
  24. ↑ a b c Publications of the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (Dutch), accessed on November 19, 2018.
  25. ↑ Via the ROB reports on the official RCE website. With the possibility of pdf downloads of some older years. (Dutch). Retrieved November 20, 2018.
  26. ↑ Leon Mijderwijk: Tijdschrift Nieuwsbrief RACM on the website historien.nl (Dutch), accessed on 20 November 2018th

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