Agnetapark
The Agneta park in Delft is a late 19th century created garden city like worker housing development , which of the spouses Jacob van Marken and Agneta Matthes-van Marken for employees of the Nederlandsche Gist & Spiritusfabriek NV built and named after Agneta Matthes. She is considered the most outstanding of her kind and of her time in the Netherlands.
The housing estate was built from 1882 to 1884 on an area of around 4 hectares in the north of Delft in what is now the Hof an Delft district, which at that time was still a separate, very rural municipality. The property on which the residential park was built was adjacent to the factory premises of van Marken's company.
The estate was designed according to the plans of the landscape architect Louis Paul Zocher (a son of Jan David Zocher ) as a spacious park crossed by watercourses and laid out in the style of an English garden and originally consisted of 48 terraced houses, semi-detached houses and four-in-hand houses, together with communal houses and the villa of the Founders planned by the architect Eugen Gugel .
What was new about this residential park, in contrast to other contemporary workers' apartments, was that it was a self-contained, multi-storey apartment with its own entrance and a small garden area. This type of housing originated in England, where the first workers' settlements in the form of terraced houses were built in the early 19th century. The architects of the Agnetapark went a significant step further by distributing these apartments, in the style of today's semi-detached houses and four-in-hand, generously and variedly in a park that offered recreation and relaxation, offered plenty of space and had numerous communal facilities. In addition, every apartment had running water, a sanitary room with toilet and sink - almost a sensation at that time.
The founder's villa was located in the middle of the settlement and was called Rust Roest (literally: "The calm rusts", freely translated: "Who rests, rusts"). In 1931 the Villa Rust Roest, which had been empty for a long time, was converted into a household school, and in 1981 the building was demolished.
Since 1989 the Agnetapark has been a Rijksmonument ( cultural monument ) under monument protection .
Entrance to the park
The sea
Hauserzeile
Vijver Zuid
Arbeiderswoningen
literature
- Wilfried Koch: Architectural Style: The standard work on European architecture from antiquity to the present. Knowledge Media Verlag, 2006. ISBN 3-577-10089-3 . P. 379
- Colin G. Pooley: Housing Strategies in Europe, 1880-1930. Leicester University Press, 1992. ISBN 0-7185-1415-7 , pp. 181ff.
