Plan for a redoubt between the Berbice River and the Wironje Creek

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Plan for a redoubt between the Berbice River and the Wironje Creek

Kurtzius, Johan Frederik

Title Leupe: Plan van de redoute aan de Kreek Wironji in Rio de Berbice.

The final fortification upstream of Fort Nassau illustrated in this 1764 site map by Ensign Johan Frederik Kurtzius, is the improvised small sconce or redoubt (A) on the mouth of the Wiruni River, situated near to the older Dutch Reformed Church (F) and the sexton’s house (G) on that site.

Kurtzius designed a modest redoubt with a conventional shape.

North is upper right.

Scale-bars of 84 feet of 7 Rhineland Rods = [approximately 1 : 370] / [profile] 24 Rhineland feet = [approximately 1 : 160].

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Is part of:

Berbice

Creator

Kurtzius, Johan Frederik (land surveyor / mapmaker)

Period

ca. 1764

Material

paper

Technique

coloured drawing

Kind

drawing

Dimension

38,5 x 47 cm.38,5 x 47 cm.

Number

VEL1647

Owner

Nationaal Archief

Tags

fortification, Map/Chart/Plan, redoubt, compass / dial

Inscription

[lower left] a key to the letters A to M : Explicatie. A: De Redoutte. B: het Profil. C: Een Couvette: waerdoor het Waeter uyt de Kreeken D. en E: afgelaeten, om de Plaets verhoogen te konnen, dat men de Borstweering heft kunnen op setten. F: Reformeerte Kerk. G: Huijs van den Köster. H: Comboijs van denselven. I: steenweeg: van stelling L: nae de Kerk, en het Huijs van den Köster. M: Daer is het Huijs van den Dominee. K: Oranien Hoof.

Sources and literature

Heijer, H. den, Grote Atlas van de West-Indische Compagnie = Comprehensive Atlas of the Dutch West India Company, II, de nieuwe WIC 1674-1791 = the new WIC 1674-1791 (2012)