Groenestein

English translation

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Description

Introduction COUNTRY HOUSE, named Groenestein, situated in Park Groenestein which has been a national monument since 1971. In its present form the country house dates from 1871, when the old house from 1685 was remodelled on the orders of Jhr. Onno Joost Quintus in a sober, eclectic building style. In the rear facade of the rear wing there is a facade stone with the date 1685. During the remodelling of 1871 the formal layout of the park was simultaneously drastically remodelled into a landscape-style layout presumably designed by landscape architect H. Copijn. The rear wing which originally consisted of two parts placed at right angles to the front house in a single storey under gabled roofs, was raised in 1911 with an additional storey under a flat roof. The building is still in use today as a dwelling house. Description The symmetrically arranged building is constructed on a rectangular floor plan and comprises two storeys under a hipped roof, covered with black-glazed Frisian roof tile. On the ridge stand two octagonal brick chimneys with caps. The facades are built of red brick and are finished with a wooden cornice, which carries a profiled brick gutter. The front facade is three bays wide and is articulated at the corners with pilasters with mirror panels over two storeys. The central risalit contains pilasters with mirror panels on either side and is crowned with a triangular, tympanum-like facade section with dentil moulding. On the ground floor there is a wooden veranda with wooden lattice work across the full width of the risalit and above it a balcony with wooden balcony railing, which rests on wooden columns. The ground floor storey is finished with a flat stucco cornice. All windows are rectangular (T-windows) but have rounded top corners and rolled mouldings. The central risalit contains glazed terrace doors on the ground floor and balcony doors on the upper storey. The entrance is placed in the southern side facade and consists of a double worked panel door with fanlight. The canopy above it rests on worked wooden brackets. The side facade is three bays wide. Between the windows and the entrance are narrow, round-arched blind recesses with double, staggered rolled mouldings. In the middle on the first floor a wooden balcony has been installed, which rests on wooden columns. The northern side facade contains windows with the same detailing as the other windows. Against the middle of this facade a five-sided brick lower extension has been placed with round windows, in which the W.C. is housed. The rear facade of the rear wing is five window bays wide and is entirely rendered and provided with scored joints. On the ground floor there is a paired window in the middle, flanked by single windows. On the upper storey there are five windows. All windows have rounded top corners. In the rear facade there is a facade stone with the construction date: 1685. The northern side facade of this component contains three rectangular windows with an eight- and a six-pane glazing bar division. Internally the original structure, layout and rich decoration have been very well preserved in their entirety. Of importance, among other things, the hall, glass and wooden draught door, corridor with white marble floor, panel doors, connecting rooms with sliding doors, marble mantels, fine wall paintings by Matthijs Röling (1987) and richly ornamented stucco ceilings, the wooden staircase, tiled kitchen in the rear wing with mantel and work surface and cellars with brick cross-ribbed vaults of older date (possibly still seventeenth century). Valuation COUNTRY HOUSE, named Groenestein, situated in the equally named Park Groenestein, of general importance due to its cultural-historical and architectural-historical value due to the development history of the Groenestein estate, which is the only one in the municipality of Groningen that has been preserved and due to the special relationship between exterior and interior (whole). Furthermore the building is of importance due to the special, historic-spatial relationship with the already nationally protected Park Groenestein in Groningen.