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· 21 Oct 2020

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Wilhelminapark Meppel invites you:

#HERFST 😍 The Wilhelminapark is the oldest #park of Meppel and is close to the station. It was designed in 1914 by the well-known garden and landscape architect Leonard Springer, after a committee of Meppeler recalls the desirability of a city walking park on the banks of the river Reest on the #stadsbestuur made it clear. The former riparian countries, which often flooded, should be increased for the benefit of this park. As a result, the bad fumes that, according to the notables, ascended from the riparian countries would be a thing of the past. Started in the summer of 1918 #werklozen with digging a pond of 1 hectare. It was expected to cover part of the laying costs by the peat that would be extracted from the excavation. However, there was no peat winning. The park was opened to the public on 8 June 1919. In 1922 a deer camp was realized in the park, for which Prince Henry donated two male fallow deer deer deer in 1928. It was called the 'Walking Park', until it was renamed Wilhelminapark on 31 August 1930, on the occasion of Queen Wilhelmina's 50th anniversary. In 1938, the monument in honor of Mr. Harm Smeenge was unveiled at the Parklaan, the monument was designed by architect Samuel de Clercq. After the Second World War, the #Wilhelminapark a rosary, with a monument in memory of the Meppeler war victims. In 1954, the park became a tea-dome richer, which until 1954 stood at a different location on the Reest, and was moved stone by stone by stone by stone by volunteers.