Dieptetuin

English translation

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Description

Introduction

SUNKEN GARDEN (complex component 7), presumably intended as a flower garden and located in the kitchen garden to the southeast of the hunting lodge, adjoining the flower greenhouse. The garden was presumably laid out around 1928 and displays characteristics of the Architectural Garden Style. The sunken garden is functionally connected to the flower greenhouse by a drainage system, whereby the drainage water from the greenhouse enters the water basin of the garden. The sub-garden is in good and original structural condition but is neglected. Due to the extent of vegetation within the garden, it is unknown what the planting arrangement was.

Description

The SUNKEN GARDEN covers a rectangular area. The garden is designed from a north-south axis of symmetry perpendicular to the warm greenhouse, and lies approximately 0.5 metres sunken relative to the surrounding garden. The sunken garden is surrounded on all sides by a retaining wall built of red machine-made brick in half-brick bond with a coping in moulded brick slightly projecting on the garden side. The walls differ slightly in height relative to one another. In the middle of the southern, eastern and northern walls are incorporated staircases each with three curved steps, fitted with a brick edge and concrete filling. In the north of the garden there is a large semicircular water basin built of brick against the wall, with its edge bordered by a hardstone string course. At the point where the edge of the basin with rising masonry adjoins the garden wall, pillars are incorporated, executed in decorative brickwork and capped with a hardstone coping plate. In the central axis of the basin there is a small cascade fed by (rain)water from the adjoining greenhouse. The cascade is formed by a hardstone bowl supported by rectangular hardstone small pillars on a basement built of red brick, finished at the top with moulded brick in the large basin. In the edge of the bowl are four recessed water gutters, and at the junction of bowl and garden wall are small built-up pillars. These pillars are built up in decorative bonding and connected to one another by a hardstone, raised plate with water conduit. To the right of the basin there is a tap (draw-off point) in the north wall for the connection of a garden hose. Within the walls, the garden is currently covered with dense vegetation of tall grass. Among this a few stones have been found.

Valuation

The SUNKEN GARDEN from around 1928 at the hunting lodge Mookerheide has garden architecture-historical and typological value as a sound and good example of a sunken garden as part of a garden layout from the third decade of the twentieth century. The sunken garden is in keeping with the Architectural Garden Style and is important because of the aesthetic qualities in the design, whereby use was made of an axis system directed towards the nearby flower greenhouse, and because of the use of materials and the detailing. The sunken garden has ensemble values as a functional and ornamental component of the kitchen garden of the Mookerheide estate and forms with the nearby flower greenhouse, lime wall and peach greenhouse an important visual and historical unity. The sunken garden also forms a functionally inseparable whole with the flower greenhouse because of the applied drainage system. On the basis of these values, the sunken garden is of general interest.