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Hofwijck

Hofwijck is a mansion built for 17th-century politician Constantijn Huygens. It is located in on the from to . The formal address of the cultural heritage is 2 Westeinde, Voorburg, the Netherlands, but its location today is better known as the .
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  • Type: Building
  • Description: museum in Voorburg, the Netherlands
  • Roof shape: pyramidal

Places of Interest

Highlights include Voorburg railway station and Franse Kerk.

Railway station
Photo: T Houdijk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Voorburg is a railway station located in , on the Gouda–Den Haag railway. The station was opened on 1 May 1870 and The train services are operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen.

Church
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is a church.

Church
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is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Voorburg and Nieuw Binckhorst.

Town
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is a town and former municipality in the west part of the province of , . Together with the town and the village , it merged into the municipality of in 2002.

Quarter
is a former industrial area in southeast , , originally called Binckhorst, for which a plan was adopted in 2009 to transform 99.5 hectares into a mixed-use development along the lines of New Urbanism, including residential, employment and entertainment components and with Randstadrail regional light rail service.

Suburb
is a Vinex-location and district of , located in the southeast. It is geographically connected to the main body of the city by only a narrow corridor.

Hofwijck

Latitude
52.06484° or 52° 3′ 53″ north
Longitude
4.36264° or 4° 21′ 46″ east
Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)
Inception
1642
Height
11 metres (36 feet)
Open location code
9F463977+W3
Open­Street­Map ID
way 53009768
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map attribute
roof-shape=­pyramidal
Geo­Names ID
2753956
Wiki­data ID
Q2740737
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In Other Languages

From Danish to Swedish—“Hofwijck” goes by many names.
  • Danish: “Hofwijck”
  • Dutch: “Hofwijck”
  • Dutch: “Huygens‘ Hofwijck”
  • Dutch: “rijksmonumentnummer 508184”
  • German: “Hofwijck”
  • Portuguese: “Hofwijck”
  • Swedish: “Hofwijck”
  • “Hofwijck”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Hofwijck”. Photo: Jane023, CC BY-SA 3.0.