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• De zeventiende-eeuwse modernisering van het stadhuis van 's-Hertogenbosch

  In this article the 17th-century modernisation of the town hall of ' s -Hertogenbosch is explored. The central question is how fundamental the transformation of the medieval town hall was. The major part of the conversion was the new natural stone facade. This façade, designed by Pieter Minne and Dirk van der Lith, follows a scheme going back to the type of the Italian villa. It is not clear whether the architects actually reverted to the Italian tracts.

  For practical reasons the proportions of the facade deviate from the Standard rules. but nevertheless the facade is not at all provincial in character. Among other things, this appears from a comparable and more recent design for a town hall by Philip Vingboons. The modernisation was not limited to a cosmetic intervention.

  As opposed to other seventeenth-century modernisations of town halls, in 's-Hertogenbosch the entire internal disposition was changed drastically. A clustering of medieval dwellings was thereby converted into one single building with a rational layout. Although the floor plan is dependent on the old situation, the town hall has a successful disposition, going back to the villa type, just as the facade.

  The fact that the new layout of the town hall was not just an unfortunate compromise to the medieval situation, follows from the similar layout of the more recent town hall of Enkhuizen, where earlier buildings did not play a part. Consequently, it can be stated that the town hall of 's-Hertogenbosch is not only characterised by the renovated façade, but also by its modern typology.

  In this article the 17th-century modernisation of the town hall of ' s -Hertogenbosch is explored. The central question is how fundamental the transformation of the medieval town hall was. The major part of the conversion was the new natural stone facade. This façade, designed by Pieter Minne and Dirk van der Lith, follows a scheme going back to the type of the Italian villa. It is not clear whether the architects actually reverted to the Italian tracts.

  For practical reasons the proportions of the facade deviate from the Standard rules. but nevertheless the facade is not at all provincial in character. Among other things, this appears from a comparable and more recent design for a town hall by Philip Vingboons. The modernisation was not limited to a cosmetic intervention.

  As opposed to other seventeenth-century modernisations of town halls, in 's-Hertogenbosch the entire internal disposition was changed drastically. A clustering of medieval dwellings was thereby...

  In this article the 17th-century modernisation of the town hall of ' s -Hertogenbosch is explored. The central question is how fundamental the transformation of the medieval town hall was. The major part of the conversion was the new natural stone facade. This façade, designed by Pieter Minne...

  Merlijn Hurx

  53-67

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• De geschiedenis van een herenhuis te Beverwijk

  The house Breestraat 101 is situated on the main (shopping) street of Beverwijk and has nevertheless retained the character of a stately 18th-century residence. Traditionally this is a market street, a transshipment site parallel to the shore of the once nearby Wijkermeer. On deep, narrow plots houses with gables were situated here in the 17th century, as can be seen on maps from that period. The present wide premises consists of two plots/houses of which the structure is still recognizable by the double hallway and a cellar with mezzanine room. Lourens Johannes Stelt (1736-1784) was responsible for combining the premises and building the large house. His son Pieter was among the wealthiest inhabitants of Beverwijk, became mayor and must have commissioned the conversion of the interior in the second half of the 18th century. It concerned the hall, the hallway and the front room in which stuccoed ceilings with ornaments in Rococo/ Louis XV style were applied. In this front room there are wooden panelling and mouldings on which five painted wall coverings with idealized Dutch landscapes were applied, as well as grisailles above the five doors, two of which were signed by J.L. Austini (1748- 1822). In the mezzanine room a bureau dating from the same period was built in. The back door is decorated with voluptuous Rococo, because it faced the harbour. Under different proprietors only small changes were carried out in the 19th and 20th century. At present the building functions as a presbytery of the Roman Catholic St.-Agatha church (1922-'24) of architects P.J.H. and J.Th.J. Cuypers. built in the back garden

  The house Breestraat 101 is situated on the main (shopping) street of Beverwijk and has nevertheless retained the character of a stately 18th-century residence. Traditionally this is a market street, a transshipment site parallel to the shore of the once nearby Wijkermeer. On deep, narrow plots houses with gables were situated here in the 17th century, as can be seen on maps from that period. The present wide premises consists of two plots/houses of which the structure is still recognizable by the double hallway and a cellar with mezzanine room. Lourens Johannes Stelt (1736-1784) was responsible for combining the premises and building the large house. His son Pieter was among the wealthiest inhabitants of Beverwijk, became mayor and must have commissioned the conversion of the interior in the second half of the 18th century. It concerned the hall, the hallway and the front room in which stuccoed ceilings with ornaments in Rococo/ Louis XV style were applied. In this front room...

  The house Breestraat 101 is situated on the main (shopping) street of Beverwijk and has nevertheless retained the character of a stately 18th-century residence. Traditionally this is a market street, a transshipment site parallel to the shore of the once nearby Wijkermeer. On deep, narrow...

  Karianne Vozza-Vandenbroucke

  68-77

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• Vollenhoven. Het ontstaan van een lusthof op de Utrechtse Heuvelrug in de eerste helft van de negentiende eeuw

  Vollenhoven in De Bilt is one of the country estates that earned the region between Utrecht and Wageningen the name 'Stichtse Lustwarande' (pleasure grounds). The country estate consists of a distinguished residence, a landscape park with various ancillary buildings such as an orangery, a coach house and an ice house, the house of the master carpenter, as well as a very beautiful vegetable garden with glasshouses.

  Vollenhoven has had a long series of proprietors; it seldom remained in one and the same family for longer than one generation. As many of the proprietors contributed to the development of the country estate, its history cannot be summarized in a few lines. However, two of the earlier proprietors have particularly left their mark on the country estate and the structures erected on it: Pieter de Smeth van Alphen and Goderd van der Capellen van Berkenwoude.

  Until recently little was known about the development of the country estate in the nineteenth century. From the seventeenth century there had already been a building here, a small farmhouse. It is assumed that the house in its present appearance was realized in the nineteenth century. B.W.H. Ziesenis, who worked in the region around 1800, is suggested as the architect.

  Hendrik van Lunteren seems to be the most likely architect of the landscape park, but there was no solid evidence of this. His name was correctly linked with it, as appears from Van Lunteren’s original draft map for the landscape park from around 1828, which was discovered in the attic of Vollenhoven in 2005. It also appeared that there had been a park with a landscape layout previously.

  This raises new questions, for instance, whether several layers are to be distinguished in the landscape park and when it started to acquire the qualities of a landscape. Among the residents of Vollenhoven tradition has it that in the early nineteenth century Pieter de Smeth was the founder of the house and the park and that Goderd van der Capellen expanded and completed the country estate.

  In this article the development of Vollenhoven from a simple farmhouse into a pleasure garden is described on the basis of records, inventories and comparisons of historical maps and literature.

  Vollenhoven in De Bilt is one of the country estates that earned the region between Utrecht and Wageningen the name 'Stichtse Lustwarande' (pleasure grounds). The country estate consists of a distinguished residence, a landscape park with various ancillary buildings such as an orangery, a coach house and an ice house, the house of the master carpenter, as well as a very beautiful vegetable garden with glasshouses.

  Vollenhoven has had a long series of proprietors; it seldom remained in one and the same family for longer than one generation. As many of the proprietors contributed to the development of the country estate, its history cannot be summarized in a few lines. However, two of the earlier proprietors have particularly left their mark on the country estate and the structures erected on it: Pieter de Smeth van Alphen and Goderd van der Capellen van Berkenwoude.

  Until recently little was known about the development of the country estate in the nineteenth...

  Vollenhoven in De Bilt is one of the country estates that earned the region between Utrecht and Wageningen the name 'Stichtse Lustwarande' (pleasure grounds). The country estate consists of a distinguished residence, a landscape park with various ancillary buildings such as an orangery, a...

  Catharina L. van Groningen, Frieda Heijkoop

  78-89

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