Plan for a new town to be built on the eastern Bank of the Demerara River opposite the island of Borselen (plan XII)
Heneman, Johan Christoph von
Title Leupe: Het Eiland Borselen in de rivier Demerary, met de daar tegenover liggende stad.
Johan Christoph Heneman’s 1774-1775 plan for a new town opposite Borselen as depicted here is typical of Dutch urban development styles of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Heneman’s plan displays an orderly arrangement of rectangular blocks and districts, regular plot divisions, canals and suggestions for systematic tree planting.
The international nature of the Wild Coast colony trading links of the late eighteenth century is indicated by the separate mooring sections for the Dutch, English (including North American) and French ships.
Heneman had even borne in mind Demerara’s large British plantation population and the fact that they would need their own church (L).
The plan was never realised.
A copy of this map, VEL1524A, has not been separately included in this database.
Scale of 200 Rhineland Rods = 200 ‘strepen’ [ca. 1 : 3.530].
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