Agnetapark

The Agneta park in Delft is a resultant end of the 19th century garden city-like working-class settlement, which was built by Mr. and Mrs. Jacob van Marken and Agneta Matthes - van Marken for employees of the Nederlandsche Gist & Spiritusfabriek NV and named after Agneta Matthes. It is regarded as outstanding by their nature and time in the Netherlands.

The housing estate was built from 1882 to 1884 on an approximately 4 -acre area in the north of Delft in the present town Hof Delft, who was at that time still a separate, very rural community. The land on which the residential park was bordered on the factory premises of van Marche companies.

The settlement was designed by the landscape architect Louis Paul Zocher ( a son of Jan David Zocher ) as spacious, designed by rivers, criss-crossed and landscaped in the style of an English garden park and originally consisted of 48 semi-detached houses, semi-detached and Vierspännern along with community centers and the Villa of the Donors that were planned by the architect Eugene Cowl.

What was new in this residential park unlike other contemporary workers' dwellings that it was completed, multi-storey apartments with private entrance and small private garden. This apartment form had gone out of England, where early 19th century, the first workers' settlements arose in the form of row houses. The architects of the Agneta Park went a significant step further by these apartments were distributed in the style of today's semi-detached and Four Hand, generous and varied offered in a recreational and relaxing park, which offered plenty of space and had a range of shared facilities. In addition, disposal, each apartment has running water, a toilet room with toilet and wash basin - almost a sensation at the time.

The villa was in the midst of the founders of the settlement and of them was Rust Roest (literally: " The rest rusty", freely translated: " If you rest, you rust " ) called. In 1931 the Villa Rust Roest, who had long been empty, transformed into a domestic science school, 1981, the building was demolished.

Since 1989, the Agneta Park stands as Rijksmonument ( cultural monument ) listed building.

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