Our house in the middle of the forest by Jeroen de Jongh Photography

About "Our house in the middle of the forest"

by Jeroen de Jongh Photography

About the artwork

Park Zypendaal is a public landscape park and estate, which lies north of Park Sonsbeek, east of Park Gulden Bodem and south of Burgers Zoo in the city of Arnhem. The monumental Park Zypendaal owes its name to the water that seeps from the ground in some places. This is where the Sint Jansbeek originates. For years the course of the stream was hidden under the ground. A few years ago the Jansbeek was partly restored to its former glory.

In the middle of the estate is Zypendaal House. Over the centuries the agricultural structure of the estate has largely made way for a park garden in English landscape style. Various garden architects have left their mark on the park. The current garden design is by landscape architect Eduard Petzold and dates from 1864. The park is sloping and wooded with coniferous and deciduous trees and meadows in the north. The Sint-Jansbeek rises in the park and feeds several ponds. There is also a playground, a training course and a nature trail in the park.

Zypendaal as a whole has been designated as a national monument complex. The complex 'Historical country estate Zypendaal' is of general, cultural-architectural, garden-historical and landscape importance because of its age, as an example of a country estate founded by city regents, as one of the country estates situated to the north of Arnhem, because of the presence of the middle 18th century house, probably designed by Hendrik Viervant, and as a intact example of the incorporation of an out