Vondelpark In Amsterdam

Vondelpark is probably the Amsterdam city’s largest and one of the most famous parks in Netherlands. It has 10 million visitors in a year. The park is a pleasurable place not only for tourists but also for the localites as one can enjoy walking, jogging, roller-skating, sunny days and many more activities here. These activities includes free concert at the open theatre. Besides that open air theatre (five days a week), cast iron museum dome, playground for children and film museum are another attraction for the children.

The Vondelpark, a public park in Amsterdam, originally named the “Nieuwe park” is located in the stadsdeel Amsterdam Oud-Zuid, west from the Leidseplein and the Museumplein. It is spread in about 47 hectares of area. A film museum, an open air theatre, and several Horace facilities are also available for the visitors. It was established in 1864 by a group of citizens led by Christiaan Pieter van Eeghen. The architect Jan David Zocher was allotted the job of designing it for which several hectares of grass-land and marshes were bought at the edge of the city of Amsterdam. Two years later the park got opened for the association members. Later it was opened for the ordinary citizens also, in exchange of fee, in 1867. A statue of Dutch writer and playwright Joost van den Vondel was placed in the park. The stand was designed by architect Pierre Cuypers and created by Sculptor Louis Royer due to which people started calling it the park “Vondels park” A bandstand was built in 1873 and in the same year brewer Gerard Adriaan Heineken was denied to open a bar in the park. Louis Paul Zocher, Jan David Zocher’s designed the last part of the park which now became its current size of 47 hectares and had a stream of water from the beginning to the end and had plenty small paths and bushes.

In 1878 the pavilion was built as a replacement of a wooden chalet built by Louis Paul Zocher which is currently known as the Vondelparkpa viljoen and was officially changed into “Vondelpark” in 1880. Although in 1880s and 1890s the cycling in the park created obstruction, the park management tried to resolve the restrictive measurements again cyclists such as special bike paths with limited opening hours, and fines for cyclists that were going faster than a horse’s trot. It happened only after mediation of the Algemene Nederlandsche Wielrijders-Bond, who helped fund the park, that a park guard was installed and cyclists were again allowed to cycle normally. The landscape architect Egbert Mos renovated the Vondelpark for the city in the 1950’s whose purpose was to improve the park for both usage and maintenance as small bushes were grouped together as large bushes and superfluous paths were removed. The rose garden was renovated.

The movie theater of the Netherlands Film museum, the national film museum is located in the Vondelparkpaviljoen, a 19th century pavilion and the films that are screened here range from 19th century silent films to contemporary digital productions and the museum also organizes exhibitions, lectures, debates, and in the summer there are open air films on the terrace and for every two years newly restored films from the collection are screened during the Film museum Biennial. In 1960’s children’s playgrounds were created and during the flower power era in the 1960’s, the Vondelpark became a symbol of a place where everything is possible and everything is allowed and in the 1980’s an open air theatre was built.

In the 1980’s an open air theatre was built. The movie theater of the Netherlands Film museum, the national film museum is located in the Vondelparkpaviljoen, a 19th century pavilion and the films that are screened here range from 19th century silent films to contemporary digital productions and the museum also organizes exhibitions, lectures, debates, and in the summer there are open air films on the terrace and for every two years newly restored films from the collection are screened during the Film museum Biennial. In 1960’s children’s playgrounds were created and during the flower power era in the 1960’s, the Vondelpark became a symbol of a place where everything is possible.

Vondelpark thus provides a greenery spot including a number of trees, ponds and meadows, to the city. It’s an enjoyable trip to visit the place in the spare time. Many of the people could be seen walking, racing or relaxing in the park. Besides that a café and coffeehouse in the middle are also enjoyable.