Gezicht op de toren van landgoed Tanjong West

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. The center of the domain was the eponymous Landhuis Tandjong West, an eighteenth-century Dutch colonial manor house.

History

18th-century

Gezicht vanaf de toren van landgoed Tanjong West op het landgoed

Tandjong West was located on the west side of the upper

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(the vast area between Jalan Poltangan Raya, Jalan Raya Pasar Minggu,

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and the Ciliwung). The first recorded owner of the estate was Jan Andries Duurkoop, who bought the estate from an anonymous previous owner between 1760 and 1780. At this time, Duurkoop commissioned

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to make a drawing of Landhuis Tandjong West. The manor house features a 25 meter high

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in Baroque style. The country house features a vast garden and a main building. The main building consists of a main house flanked with detached smaller wings, probably for guest houses - a typical Old Indies feature. Duurkoop utilized the estate as a farmland where he kept about 5 thousand cattle producing milk and meat for the

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in forted Batavia. It was recorded that transport to Batavia downstream took about 6 hours, while upstream from Batavia it took around two days. At this time, the estate was nicknamed Oostvriesland, after the historic milk-producing region in northern Europe. Tandjong West was located in close proximity with another – more notable – country house, the Tandjong Oost or the Groeneveld, about 600 meter to the east of Tandjong West on the other side of the Ciliwung. The land was noted for being unsuitable for producing crops, the reason why it was utilized for rearing livestock. Duurkoop died in 1792 and may have been buried in the estate Tandjong West. The fate of the manor house was unclear. His wife Johanna Adriana Christina Duurkoop remarried with Conraag Johnas and moved to Japan for a military duty. The couple returned to Batavia later. Conraag died in 1803. The estate Tandjong West was inherited to the descendant of Johanna Adriana Christina in 1838.Javasche courant, 13-10-1838

19th-century

In the 19th century, the government of the Dutch Indies, under

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, started to consolidate the private lands between Batavia and

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20th-century and today

In the 1901 map of Lenteng Agung, the manor house as described in the notes of Ver Huell still exist, being located in close proximity to the Landhuis Tandjong Oost. The 1901 map indicates it as located in what is now the southeast end of Jalan Poltangan Raya where it meets Jalan Nangka. In the early twentieth century, the ''particuliere land'' or private domain of Tandjong West was owned by a company, ''N. V. Landbouw Maatschappij Tandjong West'', headed by the landlord ('landheer')

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. In 1932, the building with its gate tower have no longer existed, though the landscape as described by the Ver Huell remained unchanged. The land where the manor house used to stand as indicated in the 1901 map is currently owned by the government of Jakarta and used for the Pusling (mobile health center) Tanjung Barat. Today, there are no traces of Landhuis Tandjong West or the farmland.

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