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Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Historical Gardens, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Van der Werff was the mayor of Leyden during the siege in 1573-1574. The park could be created because a powder ship exploded in 1807, devastating a large area of the city.

an animation of the gunpowder ship exploding... www.infofilm.nl/animaties/kruitramp/kruitramp.html

Streetview about the explosion see nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leidse_buskruitramp

Locatie waarschijnlijk het Schuttersveld (op de achtergrond molen De Valk)

Location, indeed, most likely, the 'Schuttersveld', with in the background the 'Marislaan'.
Affirmative that the windmill in question is the, still existing and now museum, 'Molen De Valk'.

The churchtower left from the middle is of the 'Marekerk'.

The building at the left hand side should be, the 'Leidsche Coöperatieve Melkinrichting 'De Landbouw' ' (Milk factory), established 1879, at the 'Rijnsburgersingel' number 23.

Have a look at the following picture, from 1904, from the Leiden Regional Archives and compare yourself:

www.leidenarchief.nl/index.php?option=com_memorix&Ite...

and

www.leidenarchief.nl/index.php?option=com_memorix&Ite...

Now known as the Morspoort (Marsh Gate). Fortunately not demolished.

Built in 1668 as one of the original 10 old city gates of Leiden city, the Morspoort, or Marsh Gate, is only one of 2 that exist today. It still looks identical to this print, but the fence to the right no longer stands. Nowadays, traffic - except pedestrians and bicyclists - is directed around the gate. The Morspoort used to be called Gallows Gate since its road lead the the gallow field but it was renamed shortly after to Morspoort because of the nearby marshes. There are still 2 roads called Galgewater (Gallow's water) on each side of a canal. View also www.360cities.net/image/morspoort-leiden-the-netherlands

As it is still standing today

Michiel2005, Hylda H and Blunder, Thank you for the information (and current photo) of this gate! We can expand our descriptive information when we update.

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