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Scheveningen

Scheveningen is one of the eight districts of The Hague

Districts of The Hague

The Dutch city of The Hague consists of eight districts . Each district is divided into subdistricts . Each of these stadsdelen has its own office , where most of the local government activity is organized....
, as well as one of its subdistricts (wijken).

Scheveningen is a modern seaside resort

Seaside resort

A seaside resort is a resort located on the coast. Where a beach is the primary focus for tourists, it may be called a beach resort....
with a long sandy beach

Beach

File:MiamiSouthBeachPanoramaEdit.jpgA beach is a geology landform along the shoreline of a body of water. It usually consists of loose particles which are often composed of Rock , such as sand, gravel, shingle beach, pebbles, or cobble....
, an esplanade

Esplanade

An esplanade is a long, open, level area, usually next to a river or large body of water, where people may walk. This allows people to promenade along the sea front, usually for recreational purposes, whatever the state of the tide, without having to walk on the beach....
, a pier

Pier

A pier is a raised walkway over water, supported by widely spread piles or column. The lighter structure of a pier allows tides and currents to flow almost unhindered, whereas the more solid foundations of a quay or the closely-spaced piles of a wharf can act as breakwaters, and are consequently more liable to silting....
, and a lighthouse

Lighthouse

A lighthouse is a tower, building, or framework designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lens or, in older times, from a fire and used as an aid to navigation and to Maritime pilot at sea....
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Scheveningen is one of the eight districts of The Hague

Districts of The Hague

Seaside resort

A seaside resort is a resort located on the coast. Where a beach is the primary focus for tourists, it may be called a beach resort....
with a long sandy beach

Beach

Esplanade

Pier

Lighthouse

Harbor

A harbor or harbour , or haven, is a place where ships may shelter from the weather or are stored. Harbors can be man-made or natural....
is used both for fishing and tourism.

The long sandy beach is also popular for watersports like windsurfing

Windsurfing

Windsurfing, or sailboarding, is a Surface Water Sports using a windsurf board, also commonly called a sailboard, usually two to five meters long and powered by the wind pushing on a sail....
and kiteboarding

Kitesurfing

Kitesurfing or kiteboarding is a surface water sport that uses wind power to pull a rider through the water on a small surfboard or a kiteboard ....
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Subdistricts

The subdistricts of district Scheveningen are:

Scheveningen
Duinoord
Statenkwartier
Belgisch Park
Belgisch Park

Belgisch Park is a subdistrict of district Scheveningen in The Hague, the Netherlands.The area has around 7,900 residents and contains many trees and the adjoining ?Nieuwe Scheveningse Bosjes? and ?Oostduinen?....
Oostduinen
Duindorp
Archipelbuurt
Van Stolkpark
Westbroekpark

History

The earliest reference to the name 'Sceveninghe' goes back to around 1280. The first inhabitants may have been Anglo Saxon

Anglo-Saxons

Anglo-Saxons is the term usually used to describe the invading tribes in the south and east of Great Britain starting from the early 5th century AD, and their creation of the English nation, lasting until the Norman conquest of England of 1066....
. Other historian

Historian

A historian is an individual who studies and writes about history, and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, systematic narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all events in time....
s favor a Scandinavian

Norsemen

Norsemen is used to refer to the group of people as a whole who speak one of the North Germanic languages as their native language. The meaning of Norseman was "people from the North" and was applied primarily to Nordic people originating from southern and central Scandinavia....
origin. Fishing

Fishing

Fishing is the activity of catching fish. Fishing techniques include Fish net, Fish trap, Spearfishing, angling and Gathering seafood by hand. The term fishing may be applied to catching other aquatic animals such as different types of shellfish, squid, octopus, turtles, Edible frog and some edible marine invertebrates....
was the main source of food

Food

Food is any substance, usually composed of carbohydrates, fats, proteins and water, that can be Eating or Drinking by an animal or human for nutrition or pleasure....
and income

Income

Income, refers to consumption opportunity gained by an entity within a specified time frame, which is generally expressed in monetary terms. However, for households and individuals, "income is the sum of all the wages, salaries, profits, interests payments, rents and other forms of earnings received......
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The Battle of Scheveningen

Battle of Scheveningen

The Battle of Scheveningen was the final naval battle of the First Anglo-Dutch War. It took place on 8–10 August 1653 between the fleets of the Commonwealth of England and the Dutch Republic....
was fought between English and Dutch fleets off the coast of the village on 10 August 1654. Thousands of people gathered on the shore to watch.

A road to neighbouring Den Haag

Den haag

Den Haag may refer to:* The Hague, a city in the Netherlands* Den Haag , a novel written by South Korean author Ho Soo Kim...
was constructed in 1663 (current name: Scheveningseweg).

In 1470, a heavy storm destroyed the church and half the houses. The village was again hit by storms in 1570, 1775, 1825, 1860, 1881 and 1894. After this last storm, the villagers decided to build a harbor. Until then, the fishing boats had had a flat bottom (bomschuiten), and were pulled up the beach. Around 1870 over 150 of these boats were in use. Once the harbor had been constructed in 1904, more modern ships replaced the bomschuiten.

In 1818, Jacob Pronk constructed a wooden building on a dune near the sea, from where people could bathe from four separate rooms. It marked the start of Scheveningen as a bathing resort. Since then, Scheveningen has attracted numerous tourists from all over Europe, notably from Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
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The hotel and restaurant Kurhaus

Kurhaus (Scheveningen)

The Kurhaus is a prominent building located in Scheveningen,The Hague in The NetherlandsIt was built between 1884 and 1885 by the German architects Johann Friedrich Henkenhaf and Friedrich Ebert ....
was opened in 1886.

The picturesque village attracted many Dutch artists over the centuries, to paint the bomschuiten drawn up on the beach, or fishermen at work in the North Sea

North Sea

The North Sea is a marginal sea, epeiric sea on the European continental shelf. The Dover Strait and the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Sea in the north connect it to the Atlantic Ocean....
. Notable painters who recorded the village include Adriaen van de Velde, Simon de Vlieger

Simon de Vlieger

Simon de Vlieger was a Dutch Republic designer, drawing, and Painting, most famous for his marine paintings.Born in Rotterdam, de Vlieger moved in 1634 to Delft, where he joined the Guild of Saint Luke, and then to Amsterdam in 1638, though he maintained a house in Rotterdam until 1650 when he moved to Weesp....
and Hendrik Willem Mesdag

Hendrik Willem Mesdag

Hendrik Willem Mesdag was a Netherlands marine Painting.He was born in Groningen , the son of the banker Klaas Mesdag and his wife Johanna Wilhelmina van Giffen....
, whose enormous panorama

Panorama

In its most general sense, a panorama is any wide view of a physical space. It has also come to refer to a wide-angle representation of such a view ? whether in painting, drawing, photography, film/video, or a three-dimensional model....
, 14 m high and 120 m wide, preserves the view of Scheveningen in 1881.

Up until somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, Scheveningen was a separate municipality, which even had a soccerclub of its own, playing in the highest Dutch division ("Scheveningen Holland Sport" was its name). In the course of that second half of the former century this club ceased to exist, whereas the place itself became part of its neighbouring municipality to the east.

Events and attractions

Annual events include:

Winter swim on New Year's Day, locally known as Nieuwjaarsduik (New Year's dive)
Flag
Flag

A flag is a piece of cloth, often flown from a pole or Mast , generally used symbolically for signaling or identification. The term flag is also used to refer to the graphic design employed by a flag, or to its depiction in another medium....
s Day in spring when the first new herring
Herring

Herring are small, oily fish of the genus Clupea found in the shallow, temperate waters of the North Pacific Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, including the Baltic Sea....
of the year is auctioned
Fireworks
Fireworks

A firework is classified as a low explosive material pyrotechnics device used primarily for aesthetic and entertainment purposes. The most common use of a firework is as part of a fireworks display....
in summer: once a week and several days during a festival week

A visit to Scheveningen can include:

The Sea Museum
The pier
Pier

A pier is a raised walkway over water, supported by widely spread piles or column. The lighter structure of a pier allows tides and currents to flow almost unhindered, whereas the more solid foundations of a quay or the closely-spaced piles of a wharf can act as breakwaters, and are consequently more liable to silting....
(nl); it has two floors, the upper one open air, the lower one closed in.
The miniature city Madurodam
Madurodam

Madurodam is a miniature city located in Scheveningen, The Hague, in the Netherlands. It is a Model of a Dutch town on a 1:25 Scale , composed of typical Netherlands buildings and landmarks, as are found at various locations in the country....
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The Sculpture museum
The Panorama Mesdag
Panorama Mesdag

Panorama Mesdag is a panorama by Hendrik Willem Mesdag. Housed in a purpose-built museum in The Hague, the panorama is a cylindrical painting more than 14 meters high and about 40 meters in diameter ....
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Or just a day at the beach.

Night life centers on Pathé Scheveningen movie theater

Movie theaters in the Netherlands

There are ca. 240 movie theaters in the Netherlands, with ca. 700 screens .The main movie theater Business chains in the Netherlands are Path?, Jogchem's, Minerva, Wolff Cinema Groep, and Utopia/Utopolis....
, and the sea-front boulevard with its bars, restaurants, gambling halls and other entertainment.

Lighthouse

The light beam

Light beam

File:Hk-Symphony of Lights 3420.jpgA light beam or beam of light is a narrow projection of light energy radiating from a source into a beam....
flashes at alternate intervals of 2.5 and 7.5 seconds. The location is .

See also: Lighthouses and lightvessels in the Netherlands

Lighthouses and lightvessels in the Netherlands

Lighthouses and lightvessels in the Netherlands include:Lightvessels:*Den Helder*Noordhinder*TexelLighthouses:*Scheveningen#Lighthouse*Westkapple#Lighthouse...

Trivia

There is anecdotal evidence of the name Scheveningen being used as a shibboleth

Shibboleth

Shibboleth is any distinguishing practice which is indicative of one's social or regional origin.It usually refers to features of language, and particularly to a word whose pronunciation identifies its speaker as being a member or not a member of a particular group....
during World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
to identify German spies: They would pronounce the initial "Sch" differently from Dutch native speakers.

In chess

Chess

Chess is a recreational and competitive game played between two Player . Sometimes called Western chess or international chess to distinguish it from History of chess and other chess variants, the current form of the game emerged in Southern Europe during the second half of the 15th century after evolving from similar, much older...
, the Scheveningen

Sicilian Defence, Scheveningen Variation

In the opening of a game of chess, the Scheveningen Variation of the Sicilian Defence is one of Black's most ambitious lines in the Open Sicilian....
is a variation of the chess opening

Chess opening

In chess the word "opening" has two common meanings, both of which are discussed in this article. Chessplayers are so familiar with these two meanings that many books and articles never state the distinction and may switch without notice from one meaning to the other....
known as the Sicilian Defence

Sicilian Defence

The Sicilian Defence is a chess chess opening that begins with the moves:The Sicilian is the most popular and best-scoring response to White's first move 1.e4....
, first played in a tournament in Scheveningen.

The International Skating Union

International Skating Union

The International Skating Union is the international sport governing body for competitive ice skating disciplines, including figure skating, synchronized skating, speed skating, and short track speed skating....
was founded in Scheveningen in 1892.

Vocal artist Sander Scheurwater, a.k.a. "De Mosselman", is from Scheveningen.

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