Textielfabriek, Goirkestraat 88

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Description

Former factory complex of the former N.V. Wollenstoffenfabriek C. Mommers & Co and others; a factory complex characteristic of and intact in the 19th and 20th century development of Tilburg's textile industry, which together with the surrounding buildings forms a still intact and for the 19th and 20th century textile city of Tilburg specifically industrial landscape. On the factory site were successively/simultaneously established the firm A. Pessers Azn. (1857-1922), the N.V. Wollenstoffenfabriek C. Mommers & Co (1861-1951), the N.V. Wollenstoffenfabriek George Droge (1922-1978), the N.V. Wollenstoffenfabriek Brouwers van Glabbeek (1951-1963) and finally the firm M. van Beurden van Moll (1964-1980) consolidated into ever larger N.V.'s.

The individual buildings, indicated on the attached map, can be described as follows:

- The factory building (1A and 1B) built in 1885 and 1894 by order of C. Mommers, constructed in fine brickwork, 18 window bays long, of 3.5 storeys, covered with a blue Dutch-tile gabled roof between pointed gables. The long facades have on the ground floor 6-pane round-arch windows and several doors, on the 1st and 2nd storeys hooded 6-pane windows and on the 3rd storey low hooded 8-pane windows; they are articulated by (corner) pilasters, which are placed every two window bays and are connected at the top by an overhanging, moulded drip moulding. The end gables - with in the centre a door with semicircular fanlight and shutters on the storeys, with on either side 4- and 6-pane hooded windows - have a moulded, rising from the corner pilasters tooth frieze and carved wind braces to terminate the gable top, which above the hoist beam is crowned by a spire; in the western end gable two gable stones with the inscription: W. Mommers, 15 June 1885.

All facades are richly provided with ornamental wrought iron wall anchors. Internally: the floors consist of heavily covered, solid composite beam layers, of which the main beams are supported by cast-iron columns with base, capital and console to support the former drive mechanism; the floor of the fourth storey is suspended by means of tie rods from the heavy wooden roof trusses.

This "high-rise" is characteristic of the first period (circa 1860-circa 1900) of the (virtually) complete mechanisation of the manufacturing process, whereby the entire machinery - usually on the ground floor the wet finishing and spinning, on the 1st storey the weaving, on the 2nd (and possibly 3rd) storey the dry finishing and possibly the "selfactors", on the 3rd storey (and loft) the stopping, napping and the warehouses - via a transmission system were centrally driven by steam power.

- The building dating from 1894, constructed in fine brickwork, seven window bays long (II B; originally smithy, later dye house and devil's corner) with storey, covered with a blue Dutch-tile gabled roof between spout gables; long facades are articulated by means of (corner) pilasters, connected at the top by an overhanging, moulded drip moulding; in the south facade on the ground floor round-arch (T-) and secondary square-headed 20-pane windows and door with semicircular fanlight, on the storey hooded 6-pane windows and above the centre a moulded roof dormer with hoist beam and shutter; in the west facade secondary, square-headed windows; in the north facade on the ground floor low hooded and on the storey (secondary) square-headed windows; staple anchors.

- Against the east facade of the "smithy" and in continuation of it the "wool warehouse" (III) dating from 1915; constructed in fine brickwork, flat-roofed building with storey, provided with several square-headed windows and doors.

- The "high-rise" (VI) originally dating from circa 1894 of two storeys, which in 1950 was provided with a flat-roofed second storey and was also otherwise substantially rebuilt, with the architecture adapted to that of the extension (IV) executed in strict design by order of G. Droge, against the west facade, which dates from 1940, comprises three storeys, a concrete skeleton with moulded breastwork beneath the steel-framed windows with inter alia 6- and 36-pane glazing bars and - with the exception of the flat-roofed front building on the west side - is covered by two sawtooth roofs.

- Against the north facade of the "high-rise" a factory hall (V) built by the firm Pessers in 1910 and rebuilt in 1935 with steel trusses and beneath six sawtooth roofs covered with corrugated asbestos cement and glass.

- Former manufacturer's residence (VIII; the "office") dating from 1889, constructed in fine brickwork, with storey, covered with a blue multi-tile hipped roof with "oeil de boeuf" windows (south and west sides) and roof dormers (north and east sides); hooded sash windows (T-windows with 3-pane fanlight) with ashlar window sills and on the south and west sides natural stone closing and setting stones in the courses; on the east facade an extension with storey, covered with a blue cross-tile gabled roof, provided with square-headed windows with glazing bars and with a hoist shutter and beam in the east facade.

- Weaving mill (IX; large hall without storey) built by order of C. Mommers in 1877, later enlarged several times, constructed in fine brickwork, beneath four sawtooth roofs covered with blue Dutch tiles and glass between asymmetrical spout gables; complete wooden construction, consisting of heavy tie beams, on which the roof trusses rest, resting on oak columns with keystones and corbels.

Chimney, steam engine building and boiler house (X) built in 1885 by order of C. Mommers, constructed in fine brickwork; elongated building with storey, covered with a Dutch-tile gabled roof and with hooded windows; against the west facade a flat-roofed extension without storey with a light turret on the roof and next to it the tall chimney.

Residence (XI; originally presumably the residence of the manufacturer family Pessers) built in circa 1890, constructed in fine brickwork (south facade plastered), with storey, covered with a Dutch-tile gabled roof; partly hooded windows (west facade), partly square-headed windows in hooded window openings; front facade (west) with corner pilasters, projecting former entrance section with balcony on storey, tile frieze as facade termination and natural stone plinth, window sills, bands, closing and setting stones in the courses.

Boiler house dating presumably from circa 1925, built by order of G. Droge and constructed in fine brickwork, with storey, covered with a mansard roof of tiles and glass and adjoining (east side) tall chimney with overhanging upper edge and with the letters G D moulded in white brick in the top.

Of what still survives, the present factory complex - in particular also through the presence of the associated manufacturer residences, boiler houses, chimneys and other outbuildings - is the most intact, complete and representative example of the development expressed in the building method - the multi-storey building represents the period of mechanisation of the production process; the sawtooth roof construction and the hall construction represent the period of modernisation and rationalisation of the production process - coming to expression in the development of Brabant's textile industry in the second half of the 19th and 20th centuries.

As a representative of one of the first large-scale and mechanised branches of our national industry, this complex is therefore of national importance from the point of view of the history of industry and technology.