Historische aanleg, Vierakkersestraatweg bij 34

English translation

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Description

Description of component 2 (at Vierakkersestraatweg 33-34 in Vierakker): HISTORIC GARDEN AND PARK LAYOUT 'T SUIDERAS.

Large-scale park layout in landscape style that was created in broad outline during the first half and at the end of the 19th century. A third phase of development, which has remained recognizable in the field, is the creation of the Groenekanaal in 1952 (for improved water drainage of the Vordense brook towards the IJssel) on the north side of the park, whereby at the level of the northern entrance drive a large-scale pond area in landscape style was excavated. The old woodland walk with winding paths on the north side of this was thereby cut off from the park but determined as a coulisse to a high degree from the northern entrance drive of the park the prospect over this canal arm excavated into a pond area. Some components of the park date from before the 19th century. The rectangular kitchen garden on the south side of the coach house dates back at least to the 18th century (Hottinger map 1783). Originally the main building stood approximately one hundred metres in a westerly direction, at right angles to the coach house and in the curve where the large pond area in landscape style branches off in an easterly direction. This pond area, which remained intact after the construction of the new house in the 1890s, is already indicated on the Cadastral Minute Plan from around 1832. The extensive modification of the park at the end of the 19th century took place in particular in the park section on the rear facing the street side of the house. In a broad triangle of which the base forms the Vierakkersestraatweg and of which the point reaches the new house, a new layout was as it were inserted into the old park, which except for some changes such as the planting of new tree groups, remained otherwise unchanged. This layout, which according to the design of the garden architect from Zwolle, L.W. Harmsen, was carried out from 1891 onwards consists of a spacious drop-shaped park meadow (narrow curve at house) with access lanes running in curves on the north and south side of this. Both the park meadow and the spaces outside the lanes were planted with tree and shrub groups (beech, oak, rhododendrons, yew, coniferous trees). To the south of the southern access lane, in order to have ground for raising the new house, a fine-mesh pattern of new water arms in landscape style was excavated, which outline an elongated island. An important characteristic of this part of the park is the strong variation in terrain and the slopes of the banks, which give this part of the park a sculptural effect. From the tower-shaped projection on the SE side of the house, a prospect was created through the park of the church, rectory and school building built more than 20 years earlier, on the opposite side of the Vierakkersestraatweg. The park section in landscape style maintained in 1891 is characterized by a highly varied spatial design. To the south of the southern entrance drive laid out by Harmsen, from the Vierakkersestraatweg there are two other entrance drives, which outline a park woodland (partly winding paths and borders, oak and beech). The northern of these two entrance drives concerns the old Kerkepad. The most southern concerns a forked entrance drive, formerly named Zuurhoesdieck, which transitions into a lane running in a broad curve (oak and beech). At the beginning of this entrance drive on the south side along the street a strip of park woodland with monumental beeches from the first half of the 19th century. This most southern access lane is closed towards the meadows on the south side by an old beech hedge and offers a prospect in a westerly direction of a cultivated field, which is closed on the south side by a timber frame and on the west side by the edge of a second woodland walk, formerly named De Pot, on the west side of the park. This drive leads between this second woodland walk located on the west side of the park (oak, beech, yew, rhododendrons, coniferous trees) and the west side of the kitchen garden towards the park section on the front of the house. The latter prospect has very great perspectival quality; through the length of the water arm running in a westerly direction of the pond area in landscape style it seems that from the house one looks as it were over an endless river running in curves into the horizon. This prospect is bounded by wooded areas as coulisses: on the south side the already mentioned second woodland walk and on the north side a park woodland from the first half of the 19th century, which is closed on the other side by the Groenekanaal and which is also intersected by a large-mesh pattern of winding paths (oak, beech, yew, rhododendron).

VALUATION

The PARK in landscape style of 't Suideras is of general importance from a cultural-historical perspective:

- because of the highly varied spatial design of the park, which traditionally offers the walker a rich range of consciously designed experiences;

- as a good example of a large-scale park layout from the early 19th century;

- as a rare example of a park in landscape style from the end of the 19th century by landscape architect L.W. Harmsen;

- as a carefully designed green setting for the protected built components of the complex;

- as a rare example of a canal excavated in the middle of the 20th century, which at the level of the country estate was excavated into an ornamental pond area in landscape style.