Baarnse Bos

Last updated March 12, 2019

The Baarnse Bos is a park/forest in the southern part of the municipality of Baarn, the province of Utrecht (province), the Netherlands. The area of the forest if approximately 80 hectares (200 acres) and is adjacent to the Soestdijk Palace.^[1]

Baarn[baːrn](listen) is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht.

Utrecht is a province of the Netherlands. It is located in the centre of the country, bordering the Eemmeer in the north-east, the province of Gelderland in the east and south-east, the province of South Holland in the west and south-west and the province of North Holland in the north-west and north. With an area of approximately 1,400 square kilometres (540 sq mi), it is the smallest of the twelve Dutch provinces. Apart from its eponymous capital, major cities in the province are Amersfoort, Houten, Nieuwegein, Veenendaal, IJsselstein and Zeist.

Soestdijk Palace is a former palace of the Dutch Royal Family. It consists of a central block and two wings.

The forest is limited by Amsterdamse Straatweg (N221) in the west, Lt. Generaal van Heutszlaan in the north, the railway connecting Amsterdam and Amersfoot, as well as Torenlaan in the east, and Praamgracht in the south.^[2] The Soestdijk Palace is across Amsterdamse Straatweg, and the Baarnse Bos continues across this road as a large forest reaching Hilversum in the west.

Hilversum City and municipality in North Holland, Netherlands

Hilversum is a city and municipality in the province of North Holland, Netherlands. Located in the heart of the Gooi, it is the largest urban centre in that area. It is surrounded by heathland, woods, meadows, lakes, and smaller towns. Hilversum is part of the Randstad, one of the largest conurbations in Europe.

The Baarnse Bos was designed as a French landscape garden between 1733 and 1758. At the time, it was built around the land estate De Eult. In 1758, the estate, together with the forest, was transferred to the Dutch royal family. Since the end of the 19th century, it has been accessible for general public.^[1]^[3]

The French landscape garden is a style of garden inspired by idealized romantic landscapes and the paintings of Hubert Robert, Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin, European ideas about Chinese gardens, and the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The style originated in England, as the "English landscape garden", in the early 18th century and spread to France, where, in the late 18th and early 19th century, it gradually replaced the symmetrical French formal garden.

The monarchy of the Netherlands is constitutional and, as such, the role and position of the monarch are defined and limited by the Constitution of the Netherlands. Consequently, a fairly large portion of the Dutch Constitution is devoted to the monarch; roughly a third of the document describes the succession, mechanisms of accession and abdication to the throne, the roles and responsibilities of the monarch and the formalities of communication between the Staten-Generaal and the role of the monarch in the creation of laws.

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References

1 2 "Erfgoedparels" (in Dutch). Province of Utrecht. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
↑ "Baarnse Bos" (in Dutch). Instituut voor natuureducatie en duurzaamheid. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
↑ "Baarnse Bos" (in Dutch). Staatsbosbeheer . Retrieved 13 September 2016.

Coordinates: 52°12′36″N5°16′57″E / 52.2101°N 5.2825°E / 52.2101; 5.2825

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[pu-1] 1 2 "Erfgoedparels" (in Dutch). Province of Utrecht. Retrieved 12 September 2016.

[2] "Baarnse Bos" (in Dutch). Instituut voor natuureducatie en duurzaamheid. Retrieved 14 September 2016.

[3] "Baarnse Bos" (in Dutch). Staatsbosbeheer . Retrieved 13 September 2016.