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Molenbosch Country Estate

Molenbosch Country Estate

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Molenbosch Country Estate

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Location: Zeist, Utrecht, Netherlands

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1. Nature & Culture - Art around Castle Zeist

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2. Slot Zeist – Path along Blikkenburgervaart loop from Hoge Dennen

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3. Heidestein Forest Lake – Bornia Sand Dunes loop from Hoge Dennen

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Narda 🌳🐕

February 24, 2021

Molenbosch owes its name to a windmill that stood along the Driebergseweg and which was demolished a few years after the house was built.

In 1835, the Amsterdam banker Johannes Bernardus Stoop buys a piece of land for eight thousand guilders from dowager Henriëtte van Oosthuyse, the only daughter of Petrus Judocus van Oosthuyse, who owned Sparrendaal. At that time, the plot was already known under the name "Het Molenbosch".
Two years (?) Later, he commissioned architect J.D. Zocher jr. To design an outdoor space. Apparently he took plenty of time for it, because the first stone was not laid until 1849. It will be a house in the neoclassical style.

The garden is laid out in a landscape style, also to a design by Zocher. house has a high position on an artificial hill. The park contains a coach house, a small white-plastered gardener's house from 1840, a garden arbor, a dovecote, a hexagonal "chicken palace" from 1898 and a chapel. The old vegetable cellar serves as a bat shelter. There is also an oval walled vegetable garden, currently used as an allotment complex.

The former estate is part of the Stichtse Lustwarande.

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Monique

May 20, 2023

elling mill

Mr. J.B. Stoop owned huge estates up to Austerlitz. He had this house built in 1837 as a summer residence. Molenbosch owes its name to a tower mill that stood along the Driebergseweg and that was demolished a few years after the house was built. The house has a high location on an artificial hill, the height effect is enhanced by the natural stone pilasters. It is privately inhabited. In the park are a coach house, a small white plastered gardener's house from 1840, a garden gazebo, a dovecote, a hexagonal 'chicken palace' from 1898 and a chapel. The old vegetable cellar serves as bat shelter.

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Molenbosch Country Estate

1. Nature & Culture - Art around Castle Zeist

2. Slot Zeist – Path along Blikkenburgervaart loop from Hoge Dennen

3. Heidestein Forest Lake – Bornia Sand Dunes loop from Hoge Dennen

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