Historische aanleg, Laan van Duivenvoorde bij 4

English translation

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Description

PARK INSTALLATION. A park of considerable size, its character determined by the layout created around the 1840s in mature, large-scale landscape style, in particular characterized by wood masses formed by long, straight curves along their perimeter.

The park consists of an "inner or walking park" provided with walking paths, in area roughly corresponding to the original park in formal style dating from approximately 1717 in its final form, and an "outer park", first created around 1840 through the embellishment of purely agricultural terrain with landscape-style park elements. Presumably around 1879 the nursery along the drive was brought into its present form. After the Second World War, finally, a new garden in formal style was laid out on the grounds of the former kitchen garden.

The composition of the park is determined by two main axes formed from open spaces: In the inner park this is the diagonal accentuated by a water feature, with the main building as its pivot point; from the front of this building the axis extends frontally, which carries the main space of the outer park likewise accompanied by a water feature.

The park contains the following elements of historical layout:

In the outer park: I. ----- The open spaces, laid out as meadow, formed and articulated by means of the wood masses mentioned under III. and IX. and furnished with the tree groups mentioned under VII., as indicated on the layout and structure plan. They are located between the inner park and the The Hague-Leiden railway line on the one hand and the Veurseweg on the other. The meadows are intersected by field ditches laid out for water management reasons.

II. ---- The drive, running in a gentle curve from the Veurseweg via the entrance gate moved here in 1941 from the nearby former country estate Rozenburg to the bridge over the inner ring canal of the inner park. The avenue is planted with English oaks (Quercus robur); however, at the height of the Jagershuis built in 1879, the avenue is, presumably at a later time, planted with common planes (Platanus acerifolia) (N.B. In mid-1982 this planting of planes was only present on the outer side of the avenue).

III. --- Wood masses in the eastern part of the outer park, indicated on the layout and structure plan with the letters A, B, C and D, serving to frame the central open space and providing views from the drive in southern and northern directions and laid out in the form as indicated on the said plan, with planting of English oaks (Quercus robur) with undergrowth: sections B and D are partly planted with beeches (Fagus sylvatica). The wood masses are largely surrounded by ditches; D extends into the edge forest of the inner park.

IV. ---- The southern access road, formed at the time of the outer park layout from the western part of the southern drive, the avenue mentioned under V. and a new connecting road from that avenue to the Veurseweg, all as indicated on the layout and structure plan.

V. ----- A section, left in its old form at the time of laying out the access road mentioned under IV., of an avenue already existing in 1680, branching off from the then southern drive, running straight to the farmhouse Veurseweg 350.

VI. A water feature, formed at the time of the outer park layout from the then excavated 18th-century pond in the eastern axis of the castle and the likewise excavated canal already existing in the 17th century leading to the Veurseweg. The pond extends into the inner ring canal of the inner park mentioned under XII.

VII. --- An island in the water feature mentioned under VI., laid out with a mixed tree planting, including as special accents a purple beech (Fagus sylvatica "Atropunicea") and a common ash (Fraxinus excelsior).

VIII. -- In the central open space of the eastern part of the outer park furnishing in the form of two tree groups without undergrowth, as indicated on the layout and structure plan, both consisting in layout of English oaks (Quercus robur), and against the eastern point of the nursery mentioned under IX. a planting consisting of two sweet chestnuts (Castanea sativa).

IX. ---- A nursery, also called "the Leiden garden", located along the northern bank of the water feature mentioned under VI. and presumably derived from an orchard laid out around 1717 in that location. The present form and enclosure presumably date from around 1879.

X. ----- Three wood masses in the western part of the outer park, one of which is largely surrounded by a ditch as indicated on the layout and structure plan. They are planted with English oaks (Quercus robur) with undergrowth.

XI. ---- The part of the Dobbewatering located within the boundaries of the area to be protected. This was, on the occasion of the construction of the railway line (around 1843), relocated using already existing watercourses, such as the Molensloot, whereby the newly dug sections acquired a winding course in the manner of landscape style. In the north the Dobbewatering forms the boundary of the inner park expanded in those years in that location.

In the inner park: XII. --- The watercourses, which as remnants of the ditch and canal system around the former formal-style park now as ring canals mark the boundary between inner and outer park and also between forest and meadow. In the eastern corner there are three watercourses lying parallel to each other.

XIII. -- The water feature, which between the western and southern of the ring canals mentioned under XII. as a winding 'brook' accompanies the space mentioned under XVII., subsequently in winding course absorbs the southern ring canal but soon branches off from it again to accompany the diagonal open space mentioned under XVI., whereby it, around the main building and again more towards the north, widens into ponds, after which it opens into the ring canal opposite the Dobbewatering.

XIV. --- An island located in the northern of the ponds mentioned under XIII., laid out with tree planting.

XV. --- Two avenues remaining from the 18th-century formal layout in the eastern corner of the inner park: a. The southern arm of the avenue which lay between the outermost of the ring canals mentioned under XII., which avenue was extended between 1960 and 1970 to the Horstlaan. This avenue is planted with a single row of trees (N.B. In mid-1982 no planting was present along the section between the ring canal and the Horstlaan).

b. The northern half of the Dwarslaan where in the formal layout both drives converged. This avenue's traditionally broader southern section, dating from the 17th century (between the building house and the entrance to the former kitchen garden mentioned under XXIII.) is provided with double avenue planting, consisting of beeches (Fagus sylvatica) as regards the inner rows and English oaks (Quercus robur) as regards the outer rows (N.B. In mid-1982 the said planting was only partly present). The narrower section of the avenue dating from the 18th century, which lies along the said kitchen garden, is planted with a single row of beeches (Fagus sylvatica) (N.B. In mid-1982 this planting was not present).

XVI. --- The diagonally oriented central open space provided with offshoots serving as views in various directions, formed and articulated by means of the forests and wood masses mentioned under XVIII. and XIX., laid out as grassland and furnished with tree groups and solitaires as mentioned under XX. and XXI. (N.B. In mid-1982 the view obscured by trees from the main building in southern direction had become overgrown and the spaces around the wood masses F and G mentioned under XIX. had been densely planted).

XVII. -- The open space of winding course, which serves as a 'valley' for the brook-like section of the water feature mentioned under XIII. and which is formed by means of the western of the forests mentioned under XVIII.

XVIII. - The forests, serving inter alia to form the open space mentioned under XVI. and created using parts of the planting of beeches (Fagus sylvatica) originating from the formal layout on the former forecourt.

XIX. --- Wood masses, indicated on the layout and structure plan with E, F and G, serving to articulate the open space mentioned under XVI. They are planted with English oaks (Quercus robur) with undergrowth (N.B. In mid-1982 the spaces around and between F and G had been densely planted).

XX. ---- Two tree groups without undergrowth in the open space mentioned under XVI., indicated on the layout and structure plan with the letters H and I, serving to furnish this space. Of these, group H consists in layout of English oaks (Quercus robur) and group I of beeches (Fagus sylvatica).

XXI. --- To frame a seating area on the bank of the southern ring canal, four common lindens (Tilia vulgaris) are planted in the layout.

XXII. -- Solitaire or in forest edges, trees of the following species are furthermore planted in the inner park as focal point or colour accent in the historical layout, as indicated on the layout and structure plan: beech (Fagus sylvatica), purple beech (Fagus sylvatica "Atropunicea"), acacia (Robinia pseudoacacia), common ash (Fraxinus excelsior), horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum), common plane (Platanus acerifolia), yew (Taxus baccata and Taxus baccata c.v. "Adpressea") and English oak (Quercus robur).

XXIII. - The open space partly enclosed by a fence and partly by a wall, accessible via two gates, laid out in the 18th century in the eastern corner of the park as a kitchen garden on the grounds of a farmhouse previously present here.

XXIV. -- The roads and paths indicated on the layout and structure plan, together forming inter alia the "small" and the "large" walks, of which the first leads via two bridges dating from the time of the layout, important as viewing point and focal point (the bridge and the raft bridge over the pond). The large walk, which crosses the water feature mentioned under XIII. in the south, leads around this water feature in the north (N.B. This latter section was no longer in use in mid-1982 and hardly recognizable in the terrain). The access road via the bridge over the Dobbewatering from the direction of Wassenaar is partly planted with an avenue of English oaks (Quercus robur).