Het Loo Palace

Het Loo is a former royal palace, northwest of Apeldoorn in the Netherlands. It is nationally famous for its castle park.

Architecture

The multi-leaf, baroque palace was built in the period 1685-1692 by the architect Jacob Roman and Daniel Marot and served the Dutch governor William III. , The. , Under the name William III 1688-1701 and King of England was, as a pleasure palace. The plant was until 1975, used as a summer residence of the House of Orange, the Dutch royal family. The castle became the model for many similar facilities in Europe, for example, the Northern churches castle in Westphalia.

Het Loo is now a museum of the history of the Dutch royal family and also offers a look at 300 years of royal living.

Garden

The castle is accessed via high-altitude U-shaped convertible terraces in the garden. Around the palace there is a baroque garden, composed of two main and two side gardens and is decorated with large Broderiebeeten, fountains, ceremonial vases, statues and a colonnade. He is subject to a strict geometric structure, the symmetry was applied consistently.

In the 18th century, the plant was kept in the best possible service. Only the upper garden was repeatedly changed contemporary. 1980 excavations are carried out to reconstruct the garden in its original form. There was a very detail oriented loyal to existing sources recreation of the destruction of a fixed, but with destruction later states ( landscape gardens ). The castle was declared a Rijksmonument.