Walter Jochems


Walter Joachim Jochems was a Dutch rider and qualified in the shooting. In 1900 he participated in the Olympic Summer Games. He lived at Duindigt Estate in Wassenaar.

In 1822, Joachim Jochems bought the estate Duindigt. Walter Jochems has grown up here.

The racecourse

At the request of the Dutch Hearing and Renewal Association (NHRV), on 19 May 1906, he founded a new racecourse on his estate to replace the racecourse on Landgoed Clingendael, which had to be closed due to the construction of a railway. This new racecourse was open to ordinary audiences. He was 1600 meters tall. In the middle was a steeple chaseban. On the north side was a dune on which stands came. The lama's

Around the turn of the century, it became fashionable to have exotic animals. In 1906, Jochems bought eighteen llamas in Peru. Half survived the crossing. During the Second World War, almost all llamas were spread and accommodated by farmers. After the war they returned. Their descendants are still in a meadow on the Rijksstraatweg (A44). Texel

Jochems also owned Robert Peel, a farm on Texel. The former owner, Albert Jansz. King (1818-1905) had abandoned the farm in 1875 and converted the farm to a stable in 1898 and put a new house next to it. Jochems broke down and rebuilt in 1923. In 1935 the roof of the house wiped off and in 1936 the house burned down and was rebuilt. In 1970, Freddie van Tuyll van Serooskerken inherited the farm he was hiring.

Jochems was married to E. Horstmann. Under her leadership, the rockery is landscaped with rocks and small waterfalls. She collected all kinds of alpine plants for this.

Their daughter Meta married Dolf Burgerhout. They built their own house elsewhere on the estate, where Freddie of Tuyll later lived after leaving Clingendael County.

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