De trekvliet en de maliebaan in Leiden: Cultuurhistorie in het huidige landschap.

The Trekvliet canal and the pall-mall at Leiden.

Pall-mall was a popular lawn game in the 17th century. The oldest pall-mall in the Netherlands was built in The Hague in 1606. Leiden was one of the universities with such a facility. In 1581, Leiden University already had several courts for ball sports. Some manuscript maps show their locations outside the city walls. The building of a pall-mall in Leiden coincided with the digging of the canal for horse-drawn boats to The Hague and Delft. The first plans for a boat canal probably date from around 1633 and the canal was completed in 1637. Alongside, between the boat canal and the Leiden city walls, a pall-mall was built, about 700 meters in length. The university bought some plots of land from the Leiden orphanage, on which the lawn was built. The history of the building of the boat canal and pall-mall is documented in several property maps and town plans that have survived. In the university's archive, a concept of regulations of the Leiden pall-mall is kept, which gives insight in how the game had to be played and into the rules that the students had to adhere to. The pall-mall remained in use until at least the end of the 18th century. On the cadastral plan from the early 19th century (1811-1832) the strip of land is still owned by the university but indicated as 'economic garden' and the heyday of pall-mall was over. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Het maliespel was een populaire sport in 17e eeuw, verwant aan het latere kolf en het huidige golf. Het spel werd doorgaans gespeeld op een ongeveer 700 meter lange baan (Eidloth & Renes, 2018, p. 180; 2020; p. 11). Met een slaghout moest een houten bal in zo min mogelijk slagen naar het einde van de baan worden geslagen. De oudste maliebaan in Nederland werd in 1606 in Den Haag aangelegd. Malie of paille-maille was ook geliefd bij studenten. Verschillende universiteiten legden maliebanen aan als sportfaciliteit voor studenten en hoopten hiermee nieuwe studenten naar hun stad te lokken (Sluijter, 2004, p. 74; Eidloth & Renes, 2018, p. 188; 2020, p. 18). In deze bijdrage wordt ingegaan op de aanleg van de maliebaan in Leiden, die samenviel met het graven van de trekvaart naar Den Haag en Delft. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]