General plan for a new governmental complex in Nieuw-Amsterdam, ground floor
Hart, Abraham van der
Title Leupe: Plans, platte gronden, opstanden voor gebouwen voor de nieuwe stad, het gouvernement enz.
This drawing is part of the plans designed by Abraham van der Hart for the Society of Berbice in the years 1779-1781. Van der Hart’s general plan for the new governmental complex shows the governor building (below), the residence for the captain and major (centre), the quarters for soldiers and officers (top right), the hospital (top left), the magazine (centre left) and the quarters for the clerks (centre right). This draft concerns the ground floor. The projected grey coloured rooms apparently lack a foundation.
Due to the British conquest of Berbice in March 1781, only part of the other plans for the complex could be sent to the Republic in November 1780. After Berbice had been returned to the Society in 1784, the first plans for a completely new main town at the confluence of the Berbice and Canje Rivers followed in the very next year and Van der Hart’s 1779-1781 project was abandoned altogether.
Scale-bar of 132 Rhineland feet = 12 'strepen'.
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