Historische aanleg, BY Veldstraat Hemmen (Overbetuwe 25)

English translation

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Description

Description component 2: HISTORIC PARK AND GARDEN LAYOUT.

The ditching of both the homestead, originally an island, and the ditching of the larger core area must be counted among the medieval layout. The access to this area on the east side, the so-called Zwarte Poort (component 4), also dates from the oldest period. This was the direct connection to the village and the church. How the further layout of the terrain was is unknown. It is probable that after the construction of the new House Hemmen in 1757, a formal garden layout was also realised. Little remains of this. However, there is an old group of trees next to the eastern ditch consisting of oaks and a pair of plane trees and a very old solitary plane tree (platanus xacerifolia), believed to be one of the oldest in the Netherlands, east of the drive. It is possible that there was a lane planted with plane trees on this side, of which these are the remains. The Veldstraat, which now clearly functions as a sight line with respect to the 18th-century house, was moreover in use as a mail coach route Wageningen-Nijmegen, for which a toll was levied at the crossing of the Linge. Both the function, as a sight line, and the layout of Klein Hemmen on this lane point to an 18th-century connection. However, whether the laying out of the Veldstraat and the construction of the 18th-century house took place at the same time is not known. In the first quarter of the 19th century the park was transformed in landscape style. In this form it is still clearly recognisable today. The most striking elements are the large pond areas that arose from the excavation of the ditches. A large pond in front of the house, the excavated ditches around the homestead and a smaller pond to the north created by the excavation of the Linge bed. A circulating drive was created with this layout. A second important lane forms a circular walk along the northeast side around the pasture located there. In addition, there are some minor walking paths. The park woodland on either side of the Veldstraat was laid out in the second quarter of the 19th century. It consists largely of oaks with some other species and undergrowth. Although intersected by the Veldstraat, a unity was created by the laying out of a single circulating lane through both parts. In the larger western part this lane is straight. In the eastern smaller part the lane is laid out in a winding manner. Approximately halfway along, a small rise in the lane was created, marked by three chestnut trees. From here there was a view over the adjacent pasture towards the nearby village of Zetten. New building and the planting of a forest to screen it has lost part of the view. In the western part, a second lane was laid out parallel to the Veldstraat. This lane offered a view of Klein Hemmen. The small plot between the park woodland and the Klein Hemmen site has been recently replanted.

Valuation

The HISTORIC PARK AND GARDEN LAYOUT belonging to the historic country estate Hemmen is of general cultural-historical importance:

- as an example of a landscape layout with the preservation and incorporation of some older, medieval and 18th-century, elements;

- because of the presence of the older group of trees with plane trees and the solitary plane tree.