Historische aanleg, Ruitenborghweg bij 2

English translation

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Description

Description

HISTORIC GARDEN AND PARK LAYOUT of the historic country estate Leemcule, consisting of the following site components: a. Moated homestead b. Rear wood c. Front meadow d. Other terrain

ad a. On the relatively large homestead, in its current form dating from the first half of the 19th century, lying in the fork formed by Leemculeweg and Ruitenborghweg, stand the main building, farm building, garden wall, bridge and entrance gate. The homestead is surrounded by a moat dug at the beginning of the 19th century. This moat was dug at the beginning of the 19th century as a replacement for the moat around the then-demolished manor house; on the northern side its rectangular course is still determined by the old orthogonal layout; on the southern side, however, its course describes an irregular semicircle, which was partly forced by the Zwolle road (now: Ruitenborghweg) which had meanwhile been laid diagonally through that layout, but which also fitted within the landscape style that was introduced on the country estate at that time. After the demolition of the manor house and western farm building, the old moat was partly filled in and partly dug further out to the south, thereby achieving the meandering form of this "water for pleasure" (as it was designated in 1827 at the first cadastral registration). Within the moat a small landscape layout with old groups of trees around a winding pond curled around a small hill. This pond, located opposite the house, is presumably the oldest landscape element on the country estate, as it is a remnant of the castle moat around the old manor house and as such probably has a medieval origin. Further lawns and flower borders against clipped hedges which determine the character. On the site of the old orchard and kitchen garden, in the 1960s a tennis court and swimming pool were laid out, as well as a new flower and vegetable garden in the northeast corner of the homestead; in 1980 this garden received a geometric layout with beech and box hedges; in front of the house, which lies in the southeast corner, runs a paved circular path to the entrance gate at Ruitenborghweg; along this road on both sides are beech hedges along the entire length of the homestead; along Leemculeweg old oaks and beeches; behind the house lies a small orchard; this continues - replanted - across the moat in the corner formed by Leemculeweg and Ruitenborghweg.

ad b. The rear wood is the elongated park section west of the homestead. It extends north beyond the homestead and occupies the western plots of the former lane system; around two old solitary linden trees a simple landscape park was planted in 1970, harmonizing well with the rest of the complex, with a central meadow and surrounding path. A young beech avenue (planted 1970) borders the complex on the west side. This beech avenue is a restored element of the old lane system, as the geometric layout at this location was also closed off by a long north-south running avenue. At that time the avenue ran through south of the present Ruitenborghweg to the tea pavilion on the dyke, thereby crossing the wooded pool situated at the Front meadow (18th century). The second wooded pool adjoins a new residential district. Both pools formed each other's counterpart in the old geometric layout, in which they lay at the crossing of the east-west running linden avenue on the one hand and north-south running avenues at the edge of the layout on the other; they are still connected - with interruptions - by the linden avenue, but of the crossing avenues only the western one exists, i.e. the beech avenue replanted in 1970, but this lacks direct connection to the wooded pool.

ad c. The Front meadow, 18th - 20th century, is actually the outer area of the park. It is an elongated meadow plot between Ruitenborghweg and Vechtdijk; in the meadow stand some monumental old solitary trees; on the west side a linden avenue (planted in 1980) leads to the round wooded pool situated to the west in the middle of the old walking wood with winding paths. On the river dyke at the edge of that wood some old linden trees (including two clipped linden trees) form a circle that recalls the tea pavilion which formerly stood at this point with a view over the Vecht. From here runs eastward at the foot of the dyke (Vecht side) a hedge row as southern border of the Front meadow; a plane tree avenue planted in 1999 cuts off a corner of the meadow on the east side. The cut-off corner - planted with a small wood plantation - is closed off on the property boundary by a row of old linden trees. The linden avenue forms, apart from the still recognizable parcellation pattern, a reminder of the original geometric layout. In this layout ran the sight-line avenue directed at the church tower of Dalfsen in front of the U-shaped complex of the manor house with its farm buildings. Because the other avenues of the lane system were oriented according to the orientation of the older manor house, the linden avenue had to run slightly askew in its orientation to the church tower within that orthogonal system, which produced a conflict between two orientations that was resolved in the form of the farm buildings (slanted south façades and the eastern farm building longer than the western one). The linden avenue runs directly south of the house in an east-west direction and connects the two wooded pools; it consists of an old and a new part. The old, 18th century, now lies encapsulated in the new village extension of Dalfsen east of Leemculeweg, extends westward from there across this road and then runs to the moat around the homestead. On the homestead itself only fragments of the avenue remain, some scattered pairs of old linden trees among others at the entrance gate; subsequently the avenue crosses Ruitenborghweg at a sharp angle, south of which the western part was replanted in 1980 to the walking wood, from there, looking back through the avenue (provided it is pruned) the Gothic church tower of Dalfsen is still visible. The plane tree avenue was planted in 1999 in the Front meadow and represents a recent structural change by which the country estate sought to connect with the original layout. The avenue is a reminder of the central axis directed at the entrance of the no longer existing house of the fan-shaped avenue pattern that lay in front of the manor house.

ad d. Other terrain: in the corner (village side) formed by Leemculeweg and Ruitenborghweg lies opposite the aforementioned orchard a small meadow partially bordered with beeches, oaks and a piece of beech hedge; on the northern side this small meadow is bordered by a monumental linden avenue on both sides of a round wooded pool. Finally, of great importance for the historic country estate is the meadow area directly north of the moat; this area falls outside the protection but has great significance as an open and green space with rural character and landscape-visual buffer.

Valuation

PARK LAYOUT of general importance:

- because of its age;

- because of spatial relationship with the other complex components;

- because of cultural-historical and landscape-visual values; the latter are particularly important in relation to the advancing village development;

- because of the layout in landscape style with clearly recognizable elements from the older geometric layout still evident within it.