The Huis te Manpad is an historical villa and former summer home of
Jacob van Lennep
Jacob van Lennep (24 March 1802 – 25 August 1868) was a Dutch poet and novelist.
Early years
He was born in Amsterdam, where his father, David Jacob van Lennep (1774–1853), a scholar and poet, was professor of eloquence and the classical la ...
in
Heemstede
Heemstede () is a town and a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is the fourth richest municipality of the Netherlands.
History
Heemstede formed around the Castle ''Heemstede'' that was built overlooking the ...
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the Netherlands
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; bordered by the
Leidsevaart canal, the Manpadslaan, and the Herenweg. It neighbors the estate of
Hartekamp
Hartekamp, or Hartecamp, is the name of a villa in Heemstede, North Holland, the Netherlands, on the Bennebroek border. It was once the Buitenplaats of George Clifford, who employed Carl Linnaeus in 1737 to write his '' Hortus Cliffortianus'', a ...
, famed for the gardens described by
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...
. Both estates still have trees and other flora dating from that period.
The Haarlem archives have material about the estate dating back to 1558. The current main building dates from 1630. It was restored in 1720 when the gardens received an overhaul (the same ''Arcadia'' gardening period in the Haarlem area that drew Linnaeus to Hartekamp). In 1767 the villa came into the possession of the Van Lennep family, who owned it up to 1953. In 1945 it was again restored by
Monumentenzorg. Thanks to the loving care of the Van Lennep's, the gardens were almost intact in the form they had been in Linnaeus's day, and it is currently being restored.
The most recent private owner, Jan Visser, gave it to the ''Stichting Huis te Manpad'' on his death.
In 1817 the then owner of the estate, David Jacob van Lennep, placed a
monument
A monument is a type of structure that was explicitly created to commemorate a person or event, or which has become relevant to a social group as a part of their remembrance of historic times or cultural heritage, due to its artistic, his ...
at the corner of his property commemorating two battles that supposedly took place there.
The house and gardens are not open to the public. During spring and summer months weekly tours are available.
Literature
*Joustra, Barbara: Het Huis te Manpad. Huis, park en bewoners door de eeuwen heen; met medewerking van Mieke T. Wilmink-Van Harmelen & Henrick S. van Lennep. Alphen a/d Rijn, 2003. . Geïll. 172 p. Tweede druk 2004.
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van Lennep, Jacob: ''
De Roos van Dekama''
See also
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De Naald: monument at the corner of the property placed by D.J. van Lennep in 1817
External links
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Website Huis te Manpad* {{in lang, nl}
Parks in North Holland
Rijksmonuments in Heemstede