Bestuursgebouw en onderdl, Diezerstraat 80

English translation

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Description

Former PROVINCIAL HOUSE with New States Hall, built in 1897-1898 in neo-Gothic style after designs by royal architect J. van Lokhorst, under supervision of royal inspector J.J. van Groenendaal; contractors Blocks and De Herder of Zwolle; sculptural work B. van Hove; decorations after designs by J. de Quack; stained glass from atelier Nicolas of Roermond.

Situated on the corner of Diezerstraat and Rode Haanstraat, an extensive complex largely built with basements on a somewhat sloping ground plan, constructed from red brickwork enlivened with some sandstone work for window sills, drip mouldings, lintels, consoles etc., and composed of multiple interconnected building bodies varying in size and height that together enclose a patio on three sides. A tower on the corner of Diezerstraat and Rode Haanstraat lends the building some distinction.

The complex adjoins at the Diezerstraat side the likewise protected Former Governor's House, built in 1874 in classical forms, of which the former Provincial House may be regarded as an independent extension.

The main block is located at the Diezerstraat side and accommodates at storey height the New States Hall with public gallery; it comprises two storeys at a width of four bays and is covered by a slate-clad hipped roof with roof dormers under slate pointed rooflets and four chimneys in the form of small corner turrets, beneath which at the Diezerstraat side two sculpted female figures under a canopy are placed, representing Peace (left) and Justice (right); partly brick, partly sandstone balustrade with Gothic trefoils and pointed arch frieze at the height of the eaves. The facade articulated by lisenes on sandstone consoles in the form of resting on small figures and ending in pinnacles; ground floor cross windows with trefoils; on the storey above pointed arch windows with trefoils and stained glass. The facade on the courtyard side detailed in the same manner, but on the right side terminated by a staircase tower under a tapered slate-clad spire with wrought-iron crown; straight-sided oblong windows.

The main entrance is located in the adjacent lower, but likewise two-storey building body, covered by a slate-clad gabled roof with roof dormers against a straight gable; ground floor (at Diezerstraat side) double entrance doors with Gothicising letter panels, above which pointed arch windows with sculptural work in the arch voussoir (the Royal Arms held by two climbing lions, beneath which the motto Je Maintendrai); sandstone three-step stoop; on the storey above two pointed arch windows; the side facade (at Rode Haanstraat side) equipped with segmentally arched door and similar windows at ground floor and pointed arch windows on the storey above; wrought-iron wall anchors.

The corner tower, with spiral staircase, rests on a projecting sculpted console (grotesques and animal figures), is covered by a tapered slate-clad needle spire with wrought-iron crown and is equipped with straight-sided and pointed arch windows with trefoil.

The remaining interconnected building bodies comprise one or more storeys under slate-clad gabled roof or (wrapping) hipped roof and are provided with pointed arch and/or segmentally arched windows.

Interiorly of significance:

-the New States Hall with public gallery; stained glass windows from atelier Nicolas of Roermond, representing among others Virtues and arms of Overijssel chivalric orders, municipalities and cities; light fittings and wall paintings with historical subjects after designs by Jan de Quack; paintwork on ceilings and walls; sculpted and painted fireplaces (for the placement of central heating elements); wooden wall panelling and carved doors with wrought-iron ornamental ironwork; late 19th-century furniture of the states members;

-the room of the Commissioner of the Queen with painted ceiling, sculpted and painted fireplace with tiling, wooden wall panelling and carved doors;

-the coffee room with ceiling painted with signs of the zodiac, wooden wall panelling and carved doors; Of further significance: tiled and painted corridors and staircases with cast iron, carved and sculpted components (stair railings, consoles etc.), stained glass windows and paintwork on vaults and ceilings.

Former Provincial House with New States Hall after designs by royal architect J. van Lokhorst (1897-1898) with sculptural work by B. van Hove, interior decorations by among others J. de Quack and stained glass windows by atelier Nicolas of Roermond, significant both from the perspective of late 19th-century neo-Gothic building, sculptural and painterly art, and from the perspective of late 19th-century provincial political-administrative history of the Netherlands in general and of the province of Overijssel in particular.