Historische aanleg, Swarteweisein bij 2

English translation

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Description

HISTORIC GARDEN AND PARK LAYOUT. The historic garden and park layout of Vijversburg contains a number of elements that probably date from the 18th century. To the east of the house is a fragment of a waterway with straight course, which originally connected the Rijpekerkervaart and the Tietjerkervaart and at that time formed the east boundary of the country estate. The linden avenue, located to the west thereof and parallel thereto, which turns westward at its southern end and reaches the level of the house, is probably the remnant of an 18th-century rectangular avenue structure, which probably originally surrounded the house. The historic layout of Vijversburg from the 18th century probably also included the round basin, located on the axis of the west facade of the house, and the western tree avenue (oaks in single-row arrangement), which extends to a stone garden house from ca. 1800, which served here as the function of a viewing pavilion (cf. an English "gazebo"), which from this point has an ascending course and proceeds as a bank (without avenue planting) in an easterly direction to the mentioned connecting waterway. For the rest, the historic garden and park layout dates from ca. 1845, when a romantic layout in landscape style was realized to the design of Lucas Pieters Roodbaard, which is characterized by several open meadows and by enclosed woodland and shrub areas with oak, chestnut, beech, elm, coniferous wood, linden and rhododendron, intersected by an ingeniously partly uneven network of winding paths. Along the paths various decorative garden houses intended as ornament are arranged, which play an important role as focal point in the landscape-style layout, such as the rustic hermitage together with dog kennels, an octagonal wooden pavilion, a rustic garden house together with grotto and an aviary (rebuilt in 1925). A striking characteristic of this historic garden and park layout in landscape style is the presence of a large quantity of fantastical pond areas and watercourses in landscape style and of bridges, of which a rustic three-way bridge still dates to a design from ca. 1850 and of which the other ornamental bridges were placed in the period 1894-1925. A characteristic feature of a Roodbaard design of the historic garden and park layout of Vijversburg is the layout in landscape style of the former kitchen garden and orchard to the south of the house, of which the liver-shaped boundary plan, almost entirely surrounded by water and partly by a beech hedge and oak avenue (in single-row arrangement), is entirely preserved.