Historische aanleg, Maarnse Grindweg bij 30

English translation

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Description

HISTORIC PARK DESIGN belonging to Huis Maarsbergen.

A landscape-style design dating from the beginning of the 19th century, preserved in structure and partly in detail, which is determined in broad outline by the geometric design of the late 17th/early 18th century. The main structure of this old design, an elongated rectangle (map by Justus van Broeckhuysen from 1721), now forms largely the boundary of the estate. Within the landscape park a number of structures from the 17th-century geometric design are preserved. These include the central main axis running from the north to the semicircular closure in the south. North of the Maarnse Grindweg this is partly the Woudenbergseweg and a dead-end path and south of the house partly the meadow and the beech avenue between the Foldocusheuvel and the southern rampart. Interruptions on this old axis are formed by vegetation on the island north of the house and south of the meadow behind the house. In the north, a few old oaks along the present Woudenbergseweg still recall the former approach road. Particular is the semicircular closure which, like the Paraplu, can still be clearly found as a low rampart in the landscape. Other elements from the 17th-century geometric design are the straight avenue west of the island and the avenue perpendicular to it towards Wijkerweg. Water is present in the form of the partly excavated 17th-century moat directly around the house and the 17th-century water channel around the house and the island in front of it. This channel was landscaped in the 19th century north and south of the island. Also remaining from the landscape design from the first half of the 19th century are the curved approach road eastward along the island, the sinuous oak and beech avenues east and west of the house, partly replanted in 1982, the landscaped channel south of house and island, and the concentric avenue pattern of deciduous and coniferous trees on and around the Foldocusheuvel. A few solitary trees date from the 19th century: around the house several red beeches and a weeping beech; also beech and horse chestnut. Besides the presence of both straight axes and winding paths, the alternation between the openness of the terrain around the house and its enclosure, as well as the differences in ground level are characteristic of the estate. The open spaces are determined by the approach road with sloping lawn in front of the house (until mid-19th century the front forecourt), the landscape meadow behind the house (until early 19th century with ornamental flower beds) and the meadows east of the house (until mid-19th century with kitchen garden and orchard). These open spaces are enclosed by the deciduous and coniferous forest (with some remaining Weymouth pines from the period Du Bois between 1804 and 1847) around the Foldocusheuvel, the pine and oak forest on the island (arranged with ornamental flower beds for the early 19th-century design, later transformed into beech forest with the function of a pleasure wood) and the deciduous and coniferous planting east and west of the house. The differences in ground level are caused by the naturally present Foldocusheuvel, the artificially constructed ramparts, the sloping lawn in front of the house (before 1847 the front forecourt with buildings) and some old wood/game ramparts.

Valuation: HISTORIC PARK DESIGN of general importance:

- on account of the early 19th-century landscape-style design with 17th and early 18th-century elements;

- on account of the still fairly well-preserved structure, also in detail;

- on account of the functional-spatial relationship with the estate.