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Grand Hotel Huis ter Duin is a hotel and congresscenter, it is located in Noordwijk aan Zee, South Holland, Netherlands, on the west side there is a look over the North Sea.
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History
In 1885 the building was completed and in 1887 the hotel was bought by entrepreneur Heinrich Tappenbeck from the Noordwijk municipality, Tappenbeck immediately began to address business internationally (especially in Germany) and advertised on the good accessibility (by steam tram) and the good connections to major cities such as Amsterdam and Leiden. During the 1970s Huis ter Duin was bought by the Noorlander family.
The hotel has always focused on affluent tourists. Thus, the royal families of Belgium and the Netherlands stayed there regularly. Other guests included Princess Grace of Monaco, writer Thomas Mann and film actors Liz Taylor and Richard Burton. During the Second World War the hotel was requisitioned by the Germans for the post of SS-officers. That data was later used in the film Soldaat van Oranje which has been partially around the hotel.
A fire destroyed a large historic part of the hotel at January 25, 1990, then Huis ter Duin was rebuilt and expanded in its current style.
Notable residents
Many Internationally known guests stayed in this hotel :