Wisch

English translation

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Description

Description

HISTORIC GARDEN AND PARK LAYOUT. The present-day historic garden and park layout in a late landscape style around Huis Wisch came into being at the end of the nineteenth century. The garden and park layout is bounded in the southwest by the eighteenth-century IJsseldijk and borders in the north the town of Terborg with which it has a historical relationship. In the east the woodland edge forms the boundary. The approach avenue from the town of Terborg to the country estate, the Laan van Wisch, which is already shown on a map of 1661 ran at this time as it does today, parallel to the main street of the town of Terborg. Also the short transverse avenue situated to the north of Huis Wisch existed at this time. In the seventeenth century the layout consisted of orchards ('bomgart') and utility gardens ('garden') which were surrounded by a ditch. On a drawing by Jan de Beijer from 1743 the water avenue still existing today to the south of the house is depicted. To the south of the house stands a black walnut dating from 1750. At the end of the 19th century, around 1879, the layout around Huis Wisch was transformed into landscape style and acquired the character it now still has. To the west of the house a meandering pond was dug and the garden to the south of the house was furnished with lawns and borders, the wooded area up to the IJsseldijk was furnished with meandering paths. To the north of the house an approach avenue was laid out around an oval lawn and a number of round borders were planted. The open meadow area situated east and south of the house and the Laan van Wisch was, somewhat later than the terrain directly around the house, planted with tree groups and solitary trees so that several sight-lines were created and the area was visually drawn towards Huis Wisch. The edges of the sight-lines consist of broad shelterbelt hedges with somewhat sloping borders. The IJsseldijk was furnished with a promenade and planted on both sides with beeches and oaks. The northeast side is bounded from this time by the Paasberg. In the southeast of the layout a duck decoy was laid out around 1830, which was restored in 1995. To the east of the house lies the kitchen garden which is partly surrounded by a late nineteenth-century kitchen garden wall against which a greenhouse (see component 3 herein) and in which two cold frames of the same period lie (see component 5 herein).

Valuation

HISTORIC GARDEN AND PARK LAYOUT belonging to the historic country estate Wisch is of general importance:

- as a well-preserved example of a park layout in landscape style from the fourth quarter of the nineteenth century, situated within a structure (composed of among others avenues, watercourses and a dike) which came into being between the end of the seventeenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth century;

- because of its importance for the history of garden and landscape architecture;

- because of the functional-spatial relationship with the components of the country estate.