Fogelsangh State

English translation

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Description

MAIN BUILDING. A plastered brick main building with its front and rear facades perpendicular to the axis of Kleasterwei and Keningswei, painted light ochre yellow, on a rectangular plan, which together with the two farm buildings on both sides forms an architectural and iconological ensemble. The two-storey main building with basement has an encircling hipped roof covered with blue Frisian pantiles, furnished at each of the four ridge points with a brick square chimney. The hipped roof was installed in 1934 according to the type of hipped roof prior to the 1872 renovation, when a lower hipped roof was installed on the main building and the farm buildings. At this 1872 renovation, which took place to plans by architect J.I. Douma and under the supervision of architect Hendrik Kramer, the entrance section located in the centre was raised to the level of the bel-étage and provided with a stone steps of five risers. The heraldic lions with arms of Van Harinxma placed at the sides of this steps were placed in 1938 by the then owner B.Ph. baron van Harinxma thoe Slooten, who also had the heraldic relief of Van Harinxma centrally placed above the entrance section within the pediment. The division of the front facade articulated by pilasters in colossal order into seven bays with a slightly wider central bay containing the entrance section, presumably dates from the last decade of the 18th century, when the house originally dating from circa 1650, which had undergone considerable renovation in the first quarter of the 18th century, was substantially renovated. In 1872 this facade division remained, but the building was entirely provided with a render layer and the render decoration as well as the gutter line was applied. The existing pediment was also replaced by a pediment of considerably smaller dimensions and at the first-storey level the present windows with slightly arched upper lintels were installed; the sashes with 16-pane division were installed in 1959, as were the sash windows with 24-pane division on the bel-étage, in order to enhance the 18th-century character of the house on this side. The present windows with 8-pane division at basement level are as such already visible in photographs from 1872 and probably still date from the 18th century. In 1872 a simple cast-iron balcony with cast-iron balustrade was installed against the central risalite. The windows in the rear (east) facade stand in four groups of two, separated by a broad pier, above which the dormers now stand. Before 1872 these stood above the middle window pairs and had a 25-pane division and simple cheeks. Pressed tightly against the sides of the middle window pairs the 'dome room' with storey has been extended, covered by a low gabled roof against a tympanum decorated with a narrow moulding above which an ornament is painted. Above the three windows on the storey a broad balcony has been installed with characteristic cast-iron railwork and at the corners two cast-iron vases, which probably date from the end of the 19th century. The balcony is supported on four volute-shaped consoles. Under the balcony a steps. On either side of the steps two 19th-century bronze sculptures, representing hunting dogs, on a stone rectangular plinth. On the southern facade 17th-century building traces are still visible: a lower narrower wall section in which two tall narrow windows were situated with block corners and blocked semicircular relieving arches. Like the southern facade, the northern facade is characterised by an irregular window arrangement. Interior: rectangular hall at bel-étage level on the west side of the house, with extending from it on the east facade the so-called garden or dome room from ca. 1840. The walls of this room have a marble imitation of stucco lustro with large rectangular panels at the height of the windows. In the corners of these panels palmette decorations are applied and in the centre large rosettes. The ceiling, which rests by means of a cove on a cornice, has a moulding with small rosettes and in the centre candelabrum-shaped ornaments. In the centre is a large rosette with fan-shaped protrusions, framed with floral motifs in plaster. The chimney is surrounded by a white marble mantelpiece.