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« Reply #45 on: September 10, 2024, 01:48:45 AM »

Kneuterdijk Palace in The Hague, The Netherlands   
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« Reply #46 on: September 10, 2024, 01:10:02 PM »

Kneuterdijk Palace in The Hague, The Netherlands   
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https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleis_Kneuterdijk

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The former city palace Paleis Kneuterdijk in The Hague was built in 1717 in Louis XIV style. The architect was Daniël Marot. The palace is located in the bend of the Kneuterdijk (extension of the Lange Voorhout). Paleis Kneuterdijk is part of the building complex of the Council of State. Musical performances are also held in the Gothic hall. The building is a national monument. The palace is state property and in the portfolio of the Rijksvastgoedbedrijf

The Van Wassenaers:
Kneuterdijk Palace replaced an old family home of the Van Wassenaer Obdam family. They owned several houses in The Hague, including a house opposite the Oude Hof on the Noordeinde.
The new house was designed in Baroque style by Daniël Marot (1661-1752). The client was Johan Hendrik Rijksgraaf van Wassenaer Obdam (1683-1745). After his death, the building came into the hands of his brother Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer Obdam (1692-1766). His great-granddaughter Marie Cornélie van Wassenaer Obdam sold the palace to King Willem I in 1816.

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Willem II
Willem I donated it in 1816 to his son Willem, the later King Willem II, who had married Anna Paulowna earlier that year. Until his inauguration on 28 November 1840, they lived on the Kneuterdijk. Before Crown Prince Willem moved into his palace, it was thoroughly renovated in 1816-1817 under the direction of architect Jan de Greef. In accordance with the taste of the time, various neoclassical elements were added to the building, such as columns and friezes. The palace was also expanded between 1816-1820 with a neoclassical ballroom, with rows of columns of solid white marble and arabesques on the ceiling. At the rear of the palace, both wings were raised by a floor. After the Belgian Revolution and the Treaty of London, Belgium became independent. The Dutch king had to vacate his palace in Brussels and took his returned furniture with him to the Netherlands after much wrangling. This included a large collection of paintings with works by Michelangelo, Titian, Rubens and Rembrandt, among others. Between 1840 and 1848, Willem II had the palace expanded with several rooms to house his works of art. It was built in neo-Gothic style by architect G. Brouwers. The king was inspired by Christ Church in Oxford, where he had studied during the English exile of the House of Orange. Of these extensions, only the "great hall" remains. This is now called the Gothic hall. In 1842, the Gothic hall was inaugurated by the marriage of Princess Sophie, the youngest daughter of the king, and Anna Paulowna.After the death of William II, Anna Paulowna no longer used the palace. She went to live at Buitenrust (where the Peace Palace now stands) and Soestdijk.

Willem III
When Willem III's son, Crown Prince Willem, came of age, he was given the palace to use. After his death in 1879, the palace and its contents were sold. Prince Willem's brother, Crown Prince Alexander, bought the building back, but never used it. He continued to live in the Johan de Witthuis, Kneuterdijk 6. After this, the palace was rarely used.

Office
After the palace had been empty for a while, it was made available to the main board of the Red Cross in 1914. From 1921 to 1927, the building served as the official residence of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. After that, Princess Juliana was given the palace by her mother. There was talk that she would live here, but that never actually happened. She sometimes stayed overnight there. She later used the palace as the office of the National Crisis Committee, which made plans to alleviate the needs of the economic crisis of the 1930s. In 1937 the palace was sold to a life insurance company, but after the German invasion in 1940 the occupiers requisitioned the building and it was put into use by the "Presse- und Propagandadienst beim Ambte des Reichskommissars" and the new Department of Public Information and Arts. After the Second World War, between 1945 and 1948 almost 4,000 criminal trials were held in this palace, mainly against Dutch people suspected of war crimes committed during the German occupation of the Netherlands. Some of them, including Anton Mussert, Max Blokzijl and Kees Kaptein, were sentenced to death in the palace ballroom. The building was put back into use in 1948 by the owner, who shared it with the Ministry of Finance. The ministry moved to a new building on the Korte Voorhout in The Hague in 1975. In 1983, the entire building complex was taken into use by the Council of State after a five-year renovation (architect: Cornelis Wegener Sleeswijk). From June 2008 to June 2011, the palace was renovated again according to plans designed by architects Evelyne Merkx and Patrice Girod. The Council of State has been using the building again since June 2011 and on 5 October the building was officially reopened by Queen Beatrix.

The Gothic Hall was inaugurated on 8 October 1842, when the wedding blessing of Princess Sophie of Orange-Nassau and Hereditary Grand Duke Charles Alexander of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach took place there. Earlier that day, Mayor Lodewijk Copes of Cattenburch had performed the civil marriage in the White Hall of Kneuterdijk Palace.[4] The Gothic Hall is all that remains of the extensions that King William II had built between 1840 and 1848 around his garden behind Kneuterdijk Palace. The rest of the extension was demolished in 1882 due to leaks and the risk of collapse, only the "great hall" remains. It is now called the Gothic Hall. The hall was reconnected to Kneuterdijk Palace in 1983, when the Council of State was established in the complex. The Gothic Hall can be visited during the Open Monument Days.

Paintings
On the left wall of the hall hangs an interesting painting by Felix Cottreau. It depicts the unveiling of the statue of William of Orange on the Noordeinde in 1845. The image shows part of the facade of Noordeinde Palace on the right and the view of the gallery that William II had built on the left. When the gallery was demolished in 1882, the statue was moved slightly to the back to give traffic more space.

Bätz organ
Bätz organ, moved to the opposite wall in 1990
In 1841, the king ordered a pipe organ from the Utrecht organ builder Jonathan Bätz. After eleven months it was placed on a balustrade above the entrance to the hall, under a round window, which is why the organ case had to be adapted in shape, with the pipes being arranged in a U-shaped curve. Not long after the death of William II in 1849, the organ was sold to the Royal Music School (later the Royal Conservatory) in The Hague and moved to the drawing academy on the Prinsengracht, where the conservatory was housed. In 1862 it suffered fire and water damage during a ball. Later the conservatory moved to the Korte Beestenmarkt, where the organ was placed in the new concert hall in 1883. It was given a free pedal and the side work was placed in a swell box. In 1949 the organ was transferred to the Willemskerk on the Nassaulaan, where it was used as a choir organ. After the Willemskerk was closed in 1962, it stood in the post-war Sionskerk in Haarlem from 1965 to 1984, where the Gothic pinnacles were removed. It was then purchased by a foundation for the Muziekcentrum Vredenburg in Utrecht, but the intended placement in the octagonal main hall never happened. This created the opportunity to bring the organ back to the Kneuterdijk palace. It was sold on and returned to the Gothic hall in 1990. It was not placed back on the old balustrade, but on the other side. A balcony was made here in the same style as the balustrade. The rounding of the pipes has been retained at the current location. Lunch concerts are regularly given in the hall. Gert Oost became the regular player of the organ. Jos van der Kooy succeeded him in 2007.

French garden
Behind the former palace lies a garden that is open to the public all year round. This is a small remnant of the royal garden. This originally extended to the Mauritskade. After the death of King William II, this part was sold to pay off some of his debts. The garden is decorated in French style and there are twelve statues on display, eleven by sculptor Eric Claus and one by sculptor Wessel Couzijn. The French garden is open from sunrise to sunset.



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« Reply #47 on: September 10, 2024, 01:18:56 PM »

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vredespaleis

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Vredespaleis (Peace Palace)


The Peace Palace (Dutch: Vredespaleis, The Hague dialect: Freidespalès ) is an international law administrative building in The Hague, the Netherlands. It houses the International Court of Justice (which is the principal judicial body of the United Nations), the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), The Hague Academy of International Law and the Peace Palace Library.

Background
In the second half of the 19th century, European nations increasingly spent money on their army and navy. Because of this arms race, on 24 August 1898, the Russian Tsar Nicholas II sent an invitation to the governments of all major nations for an international conference on peace and disarmament. He chose The Hague as a neutral location. Tsar Nicholas believed that dialogue and making international agreements would be better for the prosperity and progress of the people instead of sowing division and enmity. His appeal initially aroused much scepticism because Nicholas II himself was the supreme commander of the Russian army, a major power. He had invested a lot of money and energy in building up their military power. It was only a few months later, after the United States of all countries was the first to respond positively, that the Russian initiative gained momentum. As a result, the first Peace Conference of The Hague was held in 1899.

The ultimate idea for the Peace Palace emerged from a discussion in 1900 between Russian diplomat Friedrich Martens and American diplomat Andrew Dickson White about the need for suitable accommodation for the Permanent Court of Arbitration, which had been established at the first Hague Peace Conference in 1899. White contacted his friend, the benefactor Andrew Carnegie, about this. Carnegie initially only wanted to contribute to the establishment of a library for international law. However, White managed to persuade him, and in 1903 Carnegie agreed to donate 1.5 million dollars (3.7 million guilders) for the construction of a peace temple, which would house the Court of Arbitration and also include a library. Initially, Carnegie wanted to donate the money directly to Queen Wilhelmina, but legal restrictions prevented this, and in November 1903, the Carnegie Foundation was established “to build, furnish and maintain a courthouse and a library for the Permanent Court of Arbitration”. This foundation is still responsible for the management and administration of the Peace Palace.

One year after the opening of the Peace Palace, the First World War broke out.


Construction:
In order to obtain the necessary building land for the Peace Palace, the State of the Netherlands and the Municipality of The Hague purchased two estates, Rustenburg and Buitenrust, located along the Scheveningseweg, just over half a kilometre northeast of the Hague canal belt.The eighteenth-century country estates, once inhabited by Queen Anna Paulowna, were demolished.

An international competition was held to arrive at a good design. The winning design, in the neo-Renaissance style, was created by the French architect Louis Cordonnier. However, in order to be able to deliver the building within budget, the design had to be adapted. This was done by Cordonnier and his Dutch associate Johan van der Steur. The palace was designed with two large towers and two smaller towers at the rear. One large tower, a so-called Prague tower, and a small tower remained in the final building. The originally separate library building was also integrated into the palace itself. The gardens were designed by the English landscape architect Thomas Hayton Mawson, who also had to remove some statues and fountains from his design to meet budgetary requirements.

In 1907, the foundation stone was symbolically laid during the second Peace Conference of The Hague. Construction began some time later and the palace was completed in 1913 and officially opened on 28 August 1913 by Queen Wilhelmina, attended by, among others, Andrew Carnegie.

In the foundation and substructure (with a covering of Norwegian granite) two and a half million Waal bricks were used. In 1909 contractor Boersma started the upward work. In preparation for this, the necessary bricks had already been baked at Steenfabriek Ouderzorg in Leiderdorp on 3 April 1908. Large-format hand-moulded bricks were produced for the outer walls and in Waal format for the courtyard walls. A total of 3 million pieces. For baking the large brick of the size 24×11.8×6 cm, moulds of 28.1×14.8×6.7 cm were used. In 1908, in addition to 860,000 bricks thus formed, they also delivered 64,000 pressed bricks of the same size, 14,000 profile bricks and 63,000 Waal bricks of 21×10.3×5.5 cm. In 1909, another 716,000 large, 96,000 profile stones and 439,000 Waal stones followed.

The palace is filled with gifts from the participants of the Hague Convention as a sign of their support. Among the gifts are: a jasper vase weighing 3,200 kilograms from Russia, cast iron and copper doors from Belgium, marble from Italy, a fountain from Denmark, tapestries from Japan, the clock in the tower from Switzerland and wood from Indonesia and the United States of America.

The palace also contains statues, busts and portraits of various advocates of peace from all times.

The richly decorated fence that surrounds the entire property is a gift from Germany. It was designed by the Berlin Art Nouveau architect Bruno Möhring (1863-1929) and made by the firm Schulz & Holdefleiss, which supplied wrought iron for many prestigious buildings. The six pillars and the masonry next to the two entrances consist of Oberkirchner sandstone with sculpted crowns and a base of Bavarian granite. The bronze reliefs in the pillars of the gate are by sculptor Wilhelm Widemann (1856–1915).

A new building behind the Peace Palace was opened in early 2007. It houses the library, a conference room and the Hague Academy of International Law. In 2012, a visitors' centre was added at the main entrance on Carnegieplein. The new buildings were designed by British architect Michael Wilford
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« Reply #48 on: September 10, 2024, 01:27:31 PM »

https://nl.wikipedia.org/...iki/Rustenburg_(Den_Haag)



Estate Rustenburg:

Rustenburg is a former estate in The Hague.

History
In 1847, King Willem II bought the estate, and his widow Anna Paulowna lived there until her death.

Although Anna Pawlona was not well off financially, she refused to sell a piece of forest to the municipality in 1859, which wanted to build a park behind the Zeestraat. After her death, the Zeeheldenkwartier was built there.

After her mother's death, her daughter Sophie sold the estate to Adriaan Goekoop, who in turn sold it to the State of the Netherlands in 1905. There was no park behind the Zeestraat, but an Anna Paulownaplein designed by architect S.J. de Vletter with an entire neighborhood around it. Huize Rustenburg was demolished to build the Peace Palace



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Estate Buitenrust:

Buitenrust, originally called Hessenhof, was an 18th-century country estate located between The Hague and Scheveningen. The most notable resident was Queen Anna Paulowna, who lived here after the death of her husband King Willem II, alternated with Soestdijk Palace, and also died in Buitenrust. It was demolished in 1912 in connection with the construction of a garden around the Peace Palace.

History
Before the construction of the country estate, the estate consisted of a number of pieces of land, on which a mansion, a gardener's house and a farmstead. Furthermore, there were gardens, orchards and buildings. In total, the estate was between five and six morgen in size, which amounts to almost four hectares. The whole came into the possession of Johan Cunes, clerk at the Secretariat of the States-General, in the seventeenth century. Cunes was the owner of a large amount of land to the west of what is now the center of The Hague. It extended to the Zorgvliet estate, owned by the counts of Bentinck. Johan Cunes was a civil servant and a clever speculator. He divided his property into parts and sold them for a lucrative price to various interested parties.

The Hessenhof
One of the buyers of the Cunes lands was Landgrave Philip of Hessen-Philippsthal, a descendant of a family closely related to the House of Orange-Nassau. Several of his nephews served as soldiers in the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands and his own son Willem would become a general in the Dutch army. Around 1708, Landgrave Philip had a residence built there, located on the Scheveningseweg, which he called the “Hessenhof”. He had employed Jacobus Roman as architect. He would raise his children here and after his death the property was inherited by his eldest son Prince Charles, who kept it in his possession until 1768, when he transferred it to his eldest son Prince Willem. At that time, the Hessenhof was rented out; around 1765, the Russian Count Golofkin lived in the country estate. The ambassador of Tsarina Anna Ivanovna had previously rented Huis ter Nieuwburg, but now preferred the smaller Hessenhof, which was only ten minutes by carriage from the stadholder's court and the States-General. In 1769, Prince Willem van Hessen-Philippsthal sold the Hessenhof to the jurist Martinus Hartingh, lord of Champvent, for an amount of 22,000 guilders, plus 1,050 guilders in pin money. Hartingh then had the Hessenhof expanded and embellished for an amount of 50 to 60,000 guilders. He appeared to have spent more than he could afford, because a year later he was forced to sell the country house. The buyer was the Amsterdam merchant Pieter Loquet. He could now call himself the owner of the Hessenhof with garden, plantations, ponds, an ice cellar, gardener's house and orangery, as well as a stable and two coach houses. Loquet, who lived in Amsterdam, probably rented it to Vincent Gustaaf, Count of Hompesch, Lord of Gendringen. After the death of Pieter Loquet, the estate was inherited by his brother Stephanus, who sold the property to Grand Pensionary Pieter van Bleiswijk in 1783. On this occasion, the name Hessenhof was changed to Buitenrust.

House Buitenrust
Pieter van Bleiswijk was a flexible politician who changed his persuasion from Orange party to Patriots and back again, depending on the wind of power. He would renovate and beautify Buitenrust, as well as have the gardens, to which he paid a lot of attention, further expanded. After the childless Van Bleiswijk died in 1790 in the Buitenrust country estate, his executors sold Buitenrust to Willem Boreel (1744-1796), former alderman and councilor of Amsterdam. As early as 1806, Boreel sold the Buitenrust estate to the Rotterdam merchant Robbert Twiss, son of Francis Twiss, who moved from England to Rotterdam in the eighteenth century. It is not known whether Twiss himself permanently resided at Buitenrust with his wife Mary Scott and their eleven children. It is possible that they used the country estate as their summer residence. Twiss sold Buitenrust in 1821 to the former mayor of Loosduinen, Jonkheer Gerrit Hooft, who would become mayor of The Hague two decades later. Hooft probably used the country estate as a summer residence and lived on the Prinsessegracht in The Hague, where he owned a large house. In 1827, Buitenrust came into the hands of Johannes Leonardus Willer, who sold it a year later. It now came into the hands of the head of the Orthopaedic Institute in Würzburg in Bavaria, Johann Georg Heine, who called himself professor and doctor, although it is not clear whether this was correct. He wanted to open an orthopaedic institute near the sea and transferred his institute in Würzburg to his relative Bernard Heine. Buitenrust now became a hospital for, among other things, curvature of the spine, crooked legs, pulled-up and paralysed muscles, congenital hip dislocations and deformed limbs. Education was available in the hospital for admitted young patients. As a result of its new function, Buitenrust soon acquired the irreverent nickname “the Bultenpaleis”. On 6 April 1830, a high-profile visitor arrived at Buitenrust, in the form of King Willem I and his daughter Princess Marianne. The party came to learn about the techniques that were used there and visited the 24 patients who were staying in the hospital at the time. After two hours, the royal party left again. The king was so impressed by Heine's work that he appointed him a knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion. However, after an initial wave of patients who came to the hospital partly because of the novelty, the Dutch people increasingly stayed away. In 1838, there were only four patients left. Heine fell ill and died in Buitenrust on 7 September of that year. His widow decided to return to Würzburg and sold the house with its lands and buildings to Crown Prince Willem, the later King Willem II, who would merge the estate with that of Zorgvliet.

Buitenrust Palace
After King William II ascended the throne, Buitenrust was considerably enlarged and furnished for its new function as one of the royal palaces. Neo-Gothic extensions were added to the south and west sides, a taste the king had acquired as a student in Oxford. Various neo-Gothic buildings were also built elsewhere in The Hague on his instructions and sometimes based on his own designs. However, nothing came of his plan to demolish Buitenrust and build a Gothic palace nearby. The king himself never lived at Buitenrust, only his wife Anna Paulowna Romanova, born Grand Duchess of Russia, daughter of Tsar Paul I, was often found there in the mornings during the first few years and had her second breakfast there. When William II died in 1849, Anna Paulowna decided to move into the palace for good. In the summer she lived at Soestdijk Palace and the rest of the year at Buitenrust. On 1 March 1865, the Queen Dowager died at Buitenrust, lying on a couch in her bedroom downstairs on the garden side. Buitenrust was inherited by her daughter Princess Sophie, who was married to Grand Duke Charles Alexander of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. The Hague estates Rustenburg and Zorgvliet had also been inherited by her. The Grand Ducal couple almost always spent a few days at Buitenrust in the summer, where they stayed in a few simple apartments that were located on the upper floor. Out of piety, Anna Paulowna's death room was left as it was on the day of her death. Her medicines, toiletries, pen and inkwell remained exactly where they had been in 1865. Princess Sophie died in 1897 and her husband Grand Duke Charles Alexander followed her in 1901.

Demolition
The palace came into the hands of Adriaan Goekoop and since then Buitenrust stood empty, until it came into the hands of the municipality of The Hague in 1905. In 1907, construction of the Peace Palace began next to Buitenrust. In order to create a garden around the Peace Palace and the Carnegielaan that was to run around it, the former Buitenrust palace was demolished in 1912. Only the Buitenrustweg in the Zorgvliet district still reminds us of the palace.
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