Financial relief for monuments

Monument Savings Fund (MSF).

As owner of a national or municipal monument you are eligible, under certain conditions, for a subsidy from the monument savings fund. The monument savings fund was created by the municipality of Gemert-Bakel and is intended as a contribution towards the maintenance of your monument. In practice, this means that you can reclaim 50% of the owner's portion of the property tax if you spend this amount on maintaining your property.

To guarantee this, your property is visited once every two years by the Monumentenwacht, who draws up a report on the condition of your building. Conditions for subsidy are that you join the collective subscription to the Monumentenwacht Noord-Brabant, and that you maintain your monument well. The subscription and inspection costs of the Monumentenwacht are paid by the municipality through a collective subscription.

For more information you can contact the policy staff Monuments or look at the page about the Monument Savings Fund.

Monuments Watch

The Monumentenwacht is an independent body whose goal is to help prevent the decay of cultural-historically important buildings by taking preventive measures. The organization tries to achieve that goal by periodically performing building inspections, giving maintenance advice to the owner/manager and performing minor repairs if necessary. The underlying idea is that defects can be repaired at an early stage at relatively low cost. Repairing a defect, and especially subsequent damage, at a later stage always requires larger sums of money. If you have a subscription with the Monumentenwacht(external link), they periodically inspect the property and prepare a report listing maintenance defects and recommendations for maintenance.

National Restoration Fund (NRF).

Nationaal Restauratiefonds is a private, independent foundation that provides financing to monument owners (national and municipal) for restoration and preservation of their property. Whether an owner is actually eligible for a grant or financing and what the possibilities are in that case depends on various factors, such as the status of the monument, any concurrence with other schemes and the owner's financial situation. Staff from the restoration fund can advise you on this(external link).

Subsidy scheme for maintaining monuments (Sim).

This is an allowance for the cost of regular maintenance of national monuments that are not residential buildings. It concerns sober and efficient maintenance over a period of 6 years, based on a conservation plan. This subsidy ensures that owners can carry out planned maintenance on their monument in order to avoid expensive restorations. The application period is from February 1 to March 31 each year. You can submit your application digitally or on paper, through the National Agency for Cultural Heritage(external link).

Housing subsidy

You can applyannually from March 1 to April 30 for residential housing subsidies(external link)n for conservation costs of the monumental parts of your monument incurred in the previous year. Examples of this work include repairing the foundation, replacing grouting or masonry on the facade, or monument painting. The Guide to Eligible Conservation Costs lists the costs you may include. The housing subsidy is 38% of these costs.