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About history of the Kampina area of Van Gogh National Park
The Kampina area is the province Brabant in the Netherlands as it once was. Here you can still find wet heathland with fens, fragrant bog myrtle thickets, meadows, deciduous forests, and bluegrass fields. We are slowly but surely transforming the monotonous pine forests into a much more varied habitat for animals, plants, and fungi. This is the afternoon sound in the mixed forest at the south of Boxtel.
I'm here on Anna Avenue, a dead straight dirt road through this beautiful natural area. The sandy path was built by Candidus ten Brink, who became rich in what was then the Dutch East Indies. He amassed various lands in the Kampina from 1834. When purchasing the heathland, he undertook to convert it into farmland and forest. For this purpose he built, among other things, this straight sandy path.
Forty-four years after his death his sisters sold the estate to the van Tienhoven family.
Gijsbert van Tienhoven bought the estate in 1904 with the same goal in mind: to make the land productive. Pieter van Tienhoven took over management of the estate in 1909.
Pieter van Tienhoven was a board member of a national nature organization Natuurmonumenten.
He clearly had an eye and a heart for nature, and when his father died in 1914, he felt free to adjust management as he saw fit.
He (Pieter) became the salvation of the heathland, the meandering Beerze and rare blue grasslands on the Kampina.
Today the Kampina is part of the 10,000-acre Van Gogh Brabant National Park and lies between the cities of Eindoven, Tilburg and 's-Hertogenbosch.
Because this man Pieter van Tienhoven worked so hard for nature we can now enjoy these beautiful sound recordings.