diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 3075548..d785565 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ COMPOSE    := infra/docker-compose.yml
 # Long-running services with a healthcheck — the smoke polls these for readiness
 # (infra/wait-healthy.sh). One-shot init jobs (oz-init, nrc-init, flowable-init)
 # are not polled; they only need to have run. See docs/runbooks/gitea-actions-gotchas.md.
-WAIT_SVCS  := openzaak nrc-web acl bff domain event-subscriber projection-api self-service
+WAIT_SVCS  := openzaak nrc-web acl bff domain event-subscriber projection-api self-service openbaar
 # Config files (OpenZaak data.yaml, Keycloak realms, Flowable BPMN) are streamed
 # into external named volumes via `docker cp` (infra/seed-config.sh) instead of
 # bind-mounted, because bind mounts don't reach sibling containers on the
diff --git a/apps/openbaar/Dockerfile b/apps/openbaar/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ffeacf6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/openbaar/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# Multi-stage build for the openbaar portal (Angular → nginx).
+# Build context is the repo root (the app needs the pnpm workspace + libs). See infra/docker-compose.yml.
+FROM node:24-slim AS build
+WORKDIR /src
+RUN corepack enable && corepack prepare pnpm@11.5.2 --activate
+
+# Restore first (cached unless the manifests change).
+COPY package.json pnpm-lock.yaml pnpm-workspace.yaml nx.json tsconfig.base.json eslint.config.mjs ./
+RUN pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
+
+# Sources (only what the app + its libs need).
+COPY apps/openbaar apps/openbaar
+COPY libs libs
+RUN pnpm nx build openbaar
+
+FROM nginx:1.27-alpine AS runtime
+COPY apps/openbaar/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
+COPY --from=build /src/dist/apps/openbaar/browser /usr/share/nginx/html
+# No runtime config: the openbaar register is anonymous (no OIDC authority to inject).
+
+EXPOSE 80
diff --git a/apps/openbaar/nginx.conf b/apps/openbaar/nginx.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..aafc06b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/openbaar/nginx.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+server {
+  listen 80;
+  server_name _;
+  root /usr/share/nginx/html;
+  index index.html;
+
+  # Resolve the BFF via Docker's embedded DNS at request time (variable proxy_pass), so nginx starts
+  # even before the BFF is up and picks up restarts — instead of failing to load the config.
+  resolver 127.0.0.11 ipv6=off valid=30s;
+
+  # Same-origin API: proxy the anonymous openbaar endpoint group to the bff service. The api-client
+  # uses relative URLs, so the browser calls this origin and nginx forwards to the BFF — no CORS.
+  location /openbaar/ {
+    set $bff http://bff:8080;
+    proxy_pass $bff;
+    proxy_set_header Host $host;
+  }
+
+  # SPA fallback — Angular client-side routing.
+  location / {
+    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
+  }
+}
diff --git a/infra/docker-compose.yml b/infra/docker-compose.yml
index 4dceacd..48c3853 100644
--- a/infra/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/infra/docker-compose.yml
@@ -458,6 +458,27 @@ services:
         condition: service_started
     networks: [cg]
 
+  # The openbaar (public) register portal: nginx serves the Angular app and reverse-proxies
+  # /openbaar to the BFF. Anonymous — no DigiD, no Keycloak dependency (S-09).
+  openbaar:
+    build:
+      context: ..
+      dockerfile: apps/openbaar/Dockerfile
+    image: register-referentie/openbaar:dev
+    ports:
+      - "8141:80"
+    healthcheck:
+      # 127.0.0.1, not localhost: nginx listens on IPv4 only, but localhost resolves to ::1 first.
+      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "wget -q -O /dev/null http://127.0.0.1/ || exit 1"]
+      interval: 5s
+      timeout: 3s
+      retries: 5
+      start_period: 10s
+    depends_on:
+      bff:
+        condition: service_healthy
+    networks: [cg]
+
 volumes:
   oz-db:
   nrc-db: