Het Kareol
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Het Kareol is a large apartment complex on the Van Lennepweg in Aerdenhout
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mer, the banker and chairman of the Wagnervereniging, Julius Carl Bunge. It is situated in a park with a small forest. The house itself was built in 1908 by the young Swedish architect Anders Lundberg. Bunge was a big Richard Wagner
fan and there were many tiles in the house with pictures referring to the opera Tristan and Isolde. The small tempel at the end of one of the park lanes still has a tile design, the last remnant of a whole collection of them that had been used to decorate the house with. Two of them have been reinstalled in the Bloemendaal city hall to commemorate the villa.
During the Second World War the house was used as a sanatorium
for wounded soldiers and suffered some damage. The Dutch Military Victims Association still has a magazine named the Kareoler. Despite local efforts to restore the house, it was demolished in the seventies and an apartment building was built on the same spot. The park grounds have been preserved. In 2010 the villa was the subject of an exhibition by the Historisch Museum Haarlem
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Aerdenhout
Aerdenhout is a small town in the municipality of Bloemendaal, the Netherlands. Located in the dunes between Haarlem and the Netherlands's popular beach town Zandvoort, it ranks as the wealthiest town in the Netherlands...
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History
The original central building on the estate had a high water tower that could be seen from the train and was built in 1908 by a German-born AmsterdamAmsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
mer, the banker and chairman of the Wagnervereniging, Julius Carl Bunge. It is situated in a park with a small forest. The house itself was built in 1908 by the young Swedish architect Anders Lundberg. Bunge was a big Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...
fan and there were many tiles in the house with pictures referring to the opera Tristan and Isolde. The small tempel at the end of one of the park lanes still has a tile design, the last remnant of a whole collection of them that had been used to decorate the house with. Two of them have been reinstalled in the Bloemendaal city hall to commemorate the villa.
During the Second World War the house was used as a sanatorium
Sanatorium
A sanatorium is a medical facility for long-term illness, most typically associated with treatment of tuberculosis before antibiotics...
for wounded soldiers and suffered some damage. The Dutch Military Victims Association still has a magazine named the Kareoler. Despite local efforts to restore the house, it was demolished in the seventies and an apartment building was built on the same spot. The park grounds have been preserved. In 2010 the villa was the subject of an exhibition by the Historisch Museum Haarlem
Historisch Museum Haarlem
Historisch Museum Haarlem is a city museum located in the center of Haarlem on the Groot Heiligland 47, across from the Frans Hals Museum. It shares the front door with the ABC Architectuurcentrum Haarlem, which is located next door, and with Spaarnestad Photo, located on the upper floor...
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