Historische aanleg, Wildenborchseweg bij 20

English translation

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Description

Description component 2: PARK LAYOUT

The park layout consists of:

a. landscape park

b. vegetable garden

c. layout from the 1930s

d. woodland walk

Re a.: in fact the entire complex area can be seen as a layout in the English landscape style, XIXth century; however, the area around the house has a different character from the woodland area due to a much more open structure, so the woodland walk under d. is treated separately. The rather irregular pattern of meandering pools and watercourses stretches across the entire park layout; the grand canal was formed as such from the pool pattern only at the end of the 19th or beginning of the 20th century. The house is enclosed on left and right by tall trees, creating a double-cone pattern: visually the front garden is thus separated from the back garden; the front garden consists of a large meadow with a few specimen trees and small pools; along the west side of the meadow runs the curved approach drive (gravel surface) from the Wildenborchseweg to the round forecourt directly in front of the house; the forecourt is a round grass area surrounded by a running path along the entrance of the house; the section towards the outbuildings has a clinker paving, the rest is gravel surfaced; the back garden consists of a large slightly undulating grass area directly behind the house; at its end begins the grand canal, which continues into the woodland walk area; in the back garden are the (reduced) vegetable garden (see under b.) and the garden sections from the 1930s (see under c.).

Re b.: the current vegetable garden, originally perhaps XVIIIth century, is located a short distance to the south-east of the house; there are still parts of garden wall and fencing (see under 6); parts of the formerly larger garden (and possibly orchard) were redesigned in the 1930s as ornamental gardens (see under c.)

Re c.: in the 1930s parts of the back garden and the vegetable garden were changed according to the fashion of English garden design of that period, and more or less adapted; this created: a square garden enclosed by a tall beech hedge (south and east sides as a covered walkway), consisting of a lawn with a sculpture group in the centre (see under 8) and four cedars in the corners (one has since disappeared); symmetrically adjoining this garden on the north side is a nursery garden with low box hedging, closed on the north side by a semicircular low beech hedge; this garden, in which two garden ornaments (see under 8), has a central axis directed towards the sculpture group in the square garden; these two gardens are located on the south-west edge of the large central lawn behind the house in the woodland edge; this lawn is (partially was) accompanied by broad planting borders, with along the east edge some large topiary yews; in the lawn among others a magnolia and a cedar. To the east of the large lawn were created: a tennis court (gravel) with a shelter, an elongated swimming pond or petit canal with a shelter at one end and a garden ornament at the other; from the house a diagonal line runs, partly accompanied by an undulating yew hedge, as a walk through and alongside linked-up gardens towards the south-east; in the gardens a garden ornament (see under 8) in a round rose bed, a sundial, a garden stairway of five steps (ashlar) flanked by heraldic lions and pineapple finials.

Re d.: the western and southern part of the total layout consists of a woodland walk, called Bosket, with standing old deciduous timber, meandering pools and paths; in the wood there is only one open space, namely a meadow at the end of the grand canal; towards the south the meadow narrows to the width of the canal; at the end lies, in the woodland edge (the boundary of the complex area), a viewpoint mound on the central axis.

Valuation

PARK LAYOUT, of general importance:

- for its age;

- for its visual and landscape value;

- for the particular integration of the English gardens in the older park.