Hartekamp

Hartekamp, or Hartecamp, is the name of a villa in Heemstede, North Holland, the Netherlands, on the Bennebroek border.

It was once the Buitenplaats of George Clifford, who employed Carl Linnaeus in 1737 to write his Hortus Cliffortianus, a detailed description of the gardens of Hartecamp.

The wings on either side of the main building were added after it left the Clifford family.

The original editions of the Hortus Cliffortianus and other works of Linnaeus that were written there Musa Cliffortiana, Florens Hartekampi, and Prope Harlemum were sold at auction to generate funds for the Clifford estate.

A recent inventory in 2006 revealed 250 living species today that are all wild remains of the ancient garden.

View of Hartekamp from the Herenweg, road from Haarlem to Leiden leading along 17th and 18th century Buitenplaatsen
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