Historische aanleg, Oostersingel bij 27

English translation

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Description

HISTORIC GARDEN AND PARK LAYOUT. The history of the historic garden and park layout of Overcingel goes back to the last quarter of the 18th century. Johannes van Lier probably had a garden layout realized shortly after 1777-1778, when he had the house Overcingel built. Around and to the east of the main building a rectangular ornamental garden was created, of which the course of the original boundary, with the exception of a strip on the SW side, still exists entirely. Some specimens of the straight beech hedge, which marks this boundary on the south side, probably date from this earliest phase of the history of the park layout. On the east side of the ornamental garden Johannes van Lier had the still existing 'grand canal' lined by a row of beeches (partly 19th-century, partly 20th-century) laid out on axis with the house, a motif that in Dutch historic gardens and parks has nowadays become fairly rare. The rectangular coppice parcel situated to the south of the canal, which is indicated on the plan of the city of Assen by P.A.C. van Buwama Aardenburg from 1809, still exists, albeit that the assortment (including oak and beech) is of more recent date (19th and 20th-century) and that the indicated path layout is missing. From this earliest phase of the history of Overcingel probably date the line of the lane to the south of the house (19th-century oaks) along the current orchard, the line of the lane to the north of the ornamental park (19th-century oaks) and the line of the lane along the east side of the Wilhelmina Hospital (19th-century oaks). By their geometric or almost geometric positioning in relation to the house and the park around and to the east of the house, these lanes together with the adjacent pasture and woodland parcels form part of the architecture of the historic layout of Overcingel. The parkland to the south of Overcingel with oak, beech and yew was laid out in the 19th century; also the straight path layout that intersects this woodland came into being then. The hedgerows here and on the east side of Overcingel date from the 18th century or earlier. Around 1820 the then owner Joannes Henricus Petrus van Lier had the ornamental garden and a strip on the SW side of it replanted in landscape style. On stylistic grounds this small-scale garden, which still exists entirely, can be attributed to Lucas Pieters Roodbaard (1782-1851). In this location he realized an irregular pattern of narrow sunken winding paths that enclose slightly rising lawns in unequal curves. Variation in the spatial composition of the park and vistas into the agriculturally used part of Overcingel he brought about through a 'natural' appearing accidental grading and through a deliberately chosen apparently natural planting of solitary specimens (horse chestnut, Taxodium ascendens, tulip tree, snowdrop tree, swamp cypress, oak, beech) tree groups (oak and beech to the north and south of the drive), solitary shrubs and shrub groups (yew and rhododendrons). That the views from the main building and the park onto the agricultural parcels (now pasture and woodland parcels) and vice versa were an important element of the layout at Overcingel is demonstrated among other things by a painting from circa 1860 on the SE side of the house from a parcel of arable land (nowadays pasture and woodland). From the house a wide view over these parcels in this direction was realized. Also the view of land to the east of the 'grand canal' played an important role in the layout. The view from the house over the ornamental garden narrowed at the point of the 'grand canal' bounded by trees, only to lose itself in the openness of the land to the east of it. In the fifties of this century an orchard with standard fruit trees (mostly old varieties) was planted on a trapezoidal parcel on the west side of Overcingel, replacing the old orchard situated to the south of the ornamental garden, of which some fruit trees have been preserved.