The statue ‘Juliana’ was donated to the village on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Julianadorp by the Culturele Vereniging Julianadorp Vooruit in 2009.

The sculpture was made by sculptor Charlotte D. Barones van Pallandt (Arnhem 1898 - Noordwijk 1997)

Julianadorp was founded by Pieter Loopuyt in 1909. A church was built in the small hamlet of Loopuyt that year, creating a real village. The village square, where this church is located, is therefore still called the Loopuytpark. In connection with the birth of Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands on 30 April 1909, Queen Wilhelmina was asked in October 1909 if the village could use the name Julianadorp. Within 14 days, the applicant, Mr. P. Loopuyt, received an answer with permission to name the village Julianadorp.

During the war the name was changed by order of the Germans to “Loopuytdorp”. The explicit reference to the royal family was a thorn in the eye of the occupier. After the liberation, the village got its old name back and it has kept it ever since.

The statue was unveiled on 3 October 2009 by Roland Loopuyt (67) and his sister Elisabeth Gayrard-Loopuyt (54), descendants of the 6th generation of Pieter Loopuyt (1791-1872), who bought the polder Het Koegras in 1849. His later namesake Pieter Loopuyt founded Julianadorp in 1909.

The head was not specially made for Julianadorp, but was previously on display in an exhibition at Paleis ’t Loo.

Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina of Oranje-Nassau (The Hague, 30 April 1909 - Soestdijk, 20 March 2004), Princess of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange Nassau, Duchess of Mecklenburg and Princess of Lippe-Biesterfeld, was from 6 September 1948 to 30 April 1980 reigning Queen of the Netherlands.

Source: vanderkrogt.net