Map of a planned town near Fort Nassau
Knapp, Jan Daniël
Title Leupe: Plaan van het project hoedaanig eene statt in deeze rivier aangelegd worden kan 2de helft 18de eeuw..
The design of the new little quarter near to Fort Nassau, as shown on Van der Pijpen’s map (see VEL1579) was, according to this project plan of approximately 1740, originally intended to function as a ‘Town’ around a central square (E) with a new government house (C) and a church (D). The brickyard mentioned at point (B) was set up, after 1733, specifically to obtain building material for the stone inner structures of the fort under renovation. The tavern ’s Lands Welvaren (The Country’s Prosperity, A, built in 1734) at the end of the ‘Path to Fort Nassau’, which Knapp had kept outside the new built-up area, was probably placed just inside the district’s perimeters in the large map produced by Van der Pijpen, at plot number (1). On the bottom right of Knapp’s map is the ‘Casave Fort Garden’, in other words the kitchen garden for the garrison.
North is lower left.
Scale-bar of 100 Rhineland Rods = [approximately 1 : 1,570].
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