Hofwijck (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɦɔfʋɛik]; or Vitaulium in Latin) is a mansion built for 17th-century politician Constantijn Huygens. It is located in...
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Constantijn Huygens (section Hofwijck)
bought a piece of land in Voorburg and commissioned the building of Hofwijck. Hofwijck was inaugurated in 1642 in the company of friends and relatives. Here...
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himself entirely to research. The family had another house, not far away at Hofwijck, and he spent time there during the summer. Despite being very active,...
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collapsed. The Dutch mathematician Christiaan Huygens felt the earthquake in Hofwijck and recounted: "At half past two in the afternoon, while I was reading...
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Dutch style kitchen hearth in Hofwijck mansion, Voorburg, Netherlands...
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Pastel portrait of Christiaan Huygens, located in Hofwijck museum....
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121.572857°E / 31.340236; 121.572857, next to another replica of the Hofwijck. The museum is housed in a former naval storehouse, 's Lands Zeemagazijn...
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under the North Sea Canal), and apartment buildings. Even in the case of Hofwijck, whose inhabitants were so notable that the house is a museum today, the...
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Voorburg railway station (section Hofwijck)
yard which end at station Den Haag Centraal. Next to the station lies Hofwijck mansion which at present houses a museum of the town history and of its...
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Constantijn Huygens, who spent many years building his small country house Hofwijck with adjacent geometrically shaped gardens alongside the Vliet. His son...
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important buildings like Swaensteyn House, the Old Church (Oude Kerk) and Hofwijck are in or very near the Herenstraat. Until 2019 the Leidschendam shopping...
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Schurman Opuscula Hebraea Graeca Latina et Gallica 1653 Constantijn Huygens Hofwijck (Poem written about the estate) ca. 1657 Jan Zoet 't Groote visch-net 1657...
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shares some of the features of the Huygens’s country house in Voorburg, Hofwijck. In 1804, the estate passed on to Baron Willem van Brienen. His son, Baron...
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York USA Kort onderwijs Der Horologien Christiaan Huygens 1665 Huygens Hofwijck Museum Voorburg Den Haag Noord en Oost Tartaryen Nicolaas Witsen 1702 Göttingen...
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Maritime Museum, the Bijenkorf department store in Amsterdam, and the Hofwijck mansion in Voorburg. One section of the town was inspired by the Kattenbroek...
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Meermanno on the Princessegracht, another Herenhuis museum in the Hague. Hofwijck, a Herenhuis museum in Voorburg, about 10 minutes away by train. "Museum...
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Pulchri Studio, The Hague, in an exhibition of contemporary art. 1949 – Hofwijck, Voorburg 1959 – Achter de Dom, Utrecht 1960 – De Eshof, Norg, Drenthe...
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good example of post-war (here: post-flood) architecture. It resembles Hofwijck near The Hague, but with a concrete Baluster on top of the façade. The...
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