Overveen is a village in North Holland in the

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, in the municipality of

Bloemendaal Bloemendaal () is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. Bloemendaal is, together with Wassenaar, the wealthiest place in the Netherlands. In October 2015, after persistent problems with the local governa ...

. Overveen lies on the eastern fringe of the

North Sea The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Norway, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. An epeiric sea, epeiric sea on the European continental shelf, it connects to the Atlantic Ocean through the English Channel in the south and the ...

dunes. To the east it borders the built-up areas of Haarlem. A few kilometres to the west of the town lies the Erebegraafplaats Bloemendaal (Honorary Cemetery), where many

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposi ...

victims have been reburied, including resistance fighter Hannie Schaft, sculptor and resistance leader

Gerrit van der Veen Gerrit van der Veen (26 November 1902, Amsterdam — 10 June 1944, Overveen) was a Dutch sculptor. He was a member of the Dutch underground, which resisted the German occupation of Amsterdam during World War II. The historian Robert-Jan van Pe ...

, banker and resistance member

Walraven van Hall Walraven "Wally" van Hall (10 February 1906 – 12 February 1945) was a Dutch banker and resistance leader during the occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. He founded the bank of the Resistance, which was used to distribute funds to ...

, Physician and former Wehrmacht officer Karl Groeger, and sculptor and resistance member Johan Limpers. The town is connected to rail service by the Overveen railway station which opened in 1881 on the Haarlem to

Zandvoort Zandvoort () is a municipality in the province of North Holland, Netherlands. It is one of the major beach resorts of the Netherlands; it has a long sandy beach. It is bordered by coastal dunes of Zuid-Kennemerland National Park and the Amsterdam ...

railway line.

Landmarks

Lonbar Petrilaan 28, in the ''Kweekduin'' neighborhood, was built in 1956-57 by noted Dutch architect Gerard Holt. Its garden, designed by

Mien Ruys Wilhelmina Jacoba Moussault-Ruys (14 February 1904 – 9 January 1999), was a Dutch landscape and garden architect. Her gardening legacy is maintained in the Dutch town of Dedemsvaart, which is home to the ''Tuinen Mien Ruys''. With people such a ...

, was the first ''bielzentuin'' in the Netherlands. The house is on the list of municipal monuments.

Gallery

File:Gemeentehuis Bloemendaal in Overveen.jpg, The Bloemendaal town hall in Overveen File:Albert Heijn Overveen P1140234.jpg, Supermarket File:Publieke Werken, Overveen 04.jpg, Office building File:Overveen OLV Onbevangen.JPG, Catholic church

References

Bloemendaal Populated places in North Holland {{NorthHolland-geo-stub