Historische aanleg, Zuidereinde bij 43

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HISTORIC PARK AND GARDEN LAYOUT

Historic park and garden layout belonging to the house Trompenburg. The layout as a whole is built up from three parts. The western section at the Zuidereinde, dominated by the water feature, in which the house stands with on either side an originally rectangular island. Then the central section directly east of the house which is characterized by a walking wood, from the first decades of the 19th century on either side of the older central axis. In this section are also the kitchen garden and the orchard. Subsequently the eastern section which consists mainly of meadow land, in the middle intersected by a central avenue, the Trompenburgerlaan. The planting of this avenue has traditionally consisted of beeches. Much of this has now been felled. The basis for this layout was laid after the construction of the house when a geometric park was created adjoining the new house. The water feature with the small islands and the accesses on either side date from this time. Likewise the axis on the east side of the house with therein a round water basin. Striking is the relatively small ground area that this layout occupied while a large part of the plot thus had an agricultural function, which has remained so to the present day. The Trompenburgerlaan is of later date and must have been laid out between 1734 and 1769. Originally the starting point lay closer to the house, but through the landscaping it shifted further to the east and through the later felling of the beeches shifted still further. The first works to landscape the layout were carried out under Matthijs Straalman in the period 1771-1794. They must have been applied in a fairly limited small-scale manner. In any case, in a lithograph it can be seen that the northern island no longer offers a formal appearance, but more natural tall-growing trees. The shape of the islands was excavated on the east side from rectangular to round, likewise the corners of the water feature. In the park wood on either side of the central axis several winding paths were created. After Straalman's death in 1808 there were several other owners. It is known that they maintained a fairly considerable agricultural and livestock operation on the country estate. But what happened to the park layout is not entirely clear. In any case, the walking wood, as it now lies in its current form and extent east of the house, was created. This is at least indicated as such on the cadastral map of 1832. In the period 1861-1904 Trompenburg was under the management of a curator. In order to be able to let the country estate better it was improved. In the period 1862-'63 a considerable delivery of ornamental shrubs and trees, kitchen garden plants and fruit trees was made. Notably through the planting of flowering ornamental shrubs and trees, the appearance of a landscaped garden will have been enhanced. In this period the bridge, which originally provided access over the water to the house, was also demolished and replaced by a broad dam, onto which the garden layout was continued. Only at the restoration of 1967 was this reversed and now there is a narrower, but not based on the original dimensions, dam in front of the house. In the years 1899-1900 the assistance of Dirk Wattez was called upon. This assistance must however have consisted of no more than some advice on site; there are no indications that Wattez made a new or modified design for the layout. In fact, even after the Blaauw period (1904-1936) and the current state ownership, no major changes have been made to the country estate. In the years after the Second World War the very poor beeches of the Trompenburgerlaan were felled and somewhat later a planting with a double row of oaks was added. On the northern island in the 1960s a quasi seventeenth-century layout was realized (of minor importance for protection) and the dam in front of the house was made narrower again. The round bed in front of the house that existed in 1908 was re-created, but the central planting section was now shaped as a six-pointed star.

Valuation: The HISTORIC PARK AND GARDEN LAYOUT is of importance - as an actually very well-preserved formal layout (17th and 18th century) in broad outline as well as largely still in detail, within which a minimal adaptation in landscaped style and as such forming a good unity with the main house.