UNESCO World Heritage site Colonies of Benevolence (Veenhuizen area)?
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The UNESCO World Heritage site Colonies of Benevolence (Veenhuizen area) is a former 19th-century Dutch social reform settlement where impoverished citizens were relocated to planned agricultural colonies as an experiment in poverty relief and moral improvement.
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| UNESCO World Heritage site Colonies of Benevolence (Veenhuizen area)? canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
UNESCO World Heritage Site
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cultural landscape ⓘ former agricultural colony ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | 19th-century neoclassical ⓘ |
| conservationObjective | preservation of 19th-century colony landscape and buildings ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Netherlands ⓘ |
| currentUse |
heritage tourism site
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museum functions ⓘ residential village ⓘ |
| foundedAs | agricultural colony for the poor ⓘ |
| hasMuseum | National Prison Museum (Veenhuizen) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart |
agricultural fields
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canals and drainage ditches ⓘ farmsteads ⓘ grid-planned village layout ⓘ institutional buildings ⓘ tree-lined avenues ⓘ |
| hasUse |
penal colony (historical)
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prison village (historical) ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | UNESCO World Heritage Site ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | protected cultural heritage site ⓘ |
| inception | 1823 ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Veenhuizen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Drenthe
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Noordenveld NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Frederiksoord-Wilhelminaoord colony
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Merksplas colony NERFINISHED ⓘ Wortel colony NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | Society of Benevolence (historical) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalFunction |
moral improvement colony
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poverty relief settlement ⓘ social reform experiment ⓘ |
| partOf |
Colonies of Benevolence
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transnational World Heritage property Colonies of Benevolence (Netherlands/Belgium) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| significance |
early example of planned social housing in a rural setting
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model for later welfare and penal systems ⓘ |
| significantEvent | development of state-controlled social engineering models ⓘ |
| significantPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| theme |
enlightened social reform
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poverty relief ⓘ rural colonization ⓘ social discipline ⓘ |
| UNESCORegion | Europe and North America ⓘ |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageCriteria |
(ii)
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(iv) ⓘ |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageListingYear | 2021 ⓘ |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageSiteId | 1555 ⓘ |
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