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Design for a new main guard in Fort Nassau

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Design for a new main guard in Fort Nassau

Herlin, Jan Carel Willem

Title Leupe: Plans, platte gronden, opstanden voor gebouwen voor de nieuwe stad, het gouvernement enz.

The military engineer Jan Carel Willem Herlin, who arrived in Berbice early in 1780 and was d’Arnaud’s successor, drew this design for the new main guard in Fort Nassau (in fact still the provisional fortifications of 1764) that same year. However, it only reached the Republic in 1785. The draft shows a floor plan, two front views, a profile and a technical drawing of the beams. In response to his proposals, the directors informed him that this and subsequent plans for Nieuw-Amsterdam would not be required because they had meanwhile asked Abraham van der Hart to produce a whole new range of plans for the town.

Scale-bar of 24 feet = [approximately 1 : 60].

Taken from: Report of Herlin to the Director on 15 September 1785.

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Sources and literature

Heijer, H. den, Grote Atlas van de West-Indische Compagnie = Comprehensive Atlas of the Dutch West India Company, II, de nieuwe WIC 1674-1791 = the new WIC 1674-1791 (2012)

Bosman, Lex, Nieuw Amsterdam in Berbice (Guyana). De planning en bouw van een koloniale stad, 1764-1800 (1994)