Villa Maarheeze was home of the Dutch foreign intelligence service '' Inlichtingendienst Buitenland'', a service that existed from the end of

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

to 1994. The

villa A villa is a type of house that was originally an ancient Roman upper class country house that provided an escape from urban life. Since its origins in the Roman villa, the idea and function of a villa have evolved considerably. After the f ...

is located in the city of

Wassenaar Wassenaar (; population: in ) is a municipality and town located in the province of South Holland, on the western coast of the Netherlands. An affluent suburb of The Hague, Wassenaar lies north of that city on the N44/A44 highway near the Nort ...

, at ''Rijksstraatweg 675'', but is no longer in use by the Dutch government. Villa Maarheeze was established in 1914 and is a

Rijksmonument A (, ) is a national heritage site of the Netherlands, listed by the agency Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (RCE) acting for the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. At the end of February 2015, the Netherlands had 61,822 l ...

. ''Villa Maarheeze'' was also used as name of a work on the Foreign Intelligence Service, ''Villa Maarheeze: de geschiedenis van de inlichtingendienst buitenland'' (1998), a book written by Bob de Graaff and Cees Wiebes.

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Houses completed in 1914 Houses in the Netherlands Rijksmonuments in South Holland Wassenaar 1914 establishments in the Netherlands 20th-century architecture in the Netherlands {{Netherlands-struct-stub