쉬운 발켄부르크세 미어 주변 하이킹 및 워킹 코스

a beautiful historic bridge over the rhine

In the summer you can relax, swim or windsurf at this lake

Only seen from the outside so far, we should change that!

Opened in 2019, the bridge is a swing bridge with a high counterweight. It is a bridge for pedestrians and cyclists that connects the Valkenburg district 't Duyfrak and the district Oegstgeest aan de Rijn in Oegstgeest. The municipality of Katwijk owns the bridge. Joop van der Reijden was State Secretary for Welfare, Public Health and Culture from 1982 to 1986 in the Lubbers I cabinet. Under his rule, the financing of health care costs was restructured. From 1990 to 1993 he was CDA alderman for finance, sports, recreation and economic affairs in Oegstgeest.

Monuments relating to the Second World War were almost all built after the liberation in 1945. This memorial, on the other hand, was already built on 26 April 1941 by Major General W.F.A. Hackstroh revealed. The monument was erected in memory of the 52 soldiers who fell in the fight against the occupying forces near the Haagsche Schouw and the airports Valkenburg and Ockenburg. In addition, the monument honors the soldiers of the 22nd Depot Battalion who fought with German paratroopers on 10 May 1940 to get their hands on the bridge at the Haagsche Schouw.

Jan Wolkers, the famous Oegstgeester writer, sculptor and painter (1925-2007), is back in Oegstgeest. The poem “The memory” is one of three poems from a triptych of memory and death that he wrote in early 2001. He was inspired to do this after two close friends and a family member died at a young age. The wall poem, painted opposite his birthplace at number 7 Deutzstraat, was unveiled on October 26, 2017, his birthday, and keeps his memory alive.

The second town hall of Oegstgeest. The building was built in 1899 and inaugurated in 1900. A striking feature is the niche with the municipal coat of arms of Oegstgeest, a red anchor cross on a golden field, which is held by a lion. The statue with coat of arms was already on the original design from 1899, but was only placed in November 1927. The turret also had to do without a clockwork for a long time. Only at the end of 1925 did the city council decide to have the clock installed in honor of the 25th anniversary of the city hall. In June 2020, after years of standstill, the clock was restored to working condition. In 1940 the German occupier requisitioned the town hall to establish the “Ortskommandantur” (the local headquarters of the Wehrmacht). The municipality of Oegstgeest will then be without a town hall, but can move into the vacant house Wilhelminapark 15 at that time. After the Oegstgeest officials moved to their new location in 1999, the town hall was sold to an architectural and engineering firm from Oegstgeest. Today it is rented out as office space and several companies are located in the building.

The property, named "RHIJNGEEST", was built in 1901 in chalet style with Jugendstil influences. It was inaugurated in 1903 as Rhijngeest sanatorium, nicknamed "sanatorium for nerve leaders". The proposal to build this clinic came from Professor Gerbrandus Jelgersma, the first professor of psychiatry in Leiden. In 1949 it was renamed Jelgersmakliniek, popularly known as “De Jel”. On Saturday 5 June 1999 it was officially opened as the town hall of Oegstgeest. The building has the status of a national monument.