Remonstrants gasthuis

English translation

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Description

Introduction

GASTHUIS, named Remonstrants gasthuis, built in 1892-1905 in a craft-traditional building style with elements of the neo-Renaissance, consisting of four dwellings of two storeys under hipped roofs and a gateway on the side of the Noorderbinnensingel and 23 dwellings of one storey under hipped roofs around a large interior courtyard behind the closed southern facade of the Noorderbinnensingel. The site was part of the then Boteringe Poortenwal. The dwellings are still in use as residential properties. The complex was renovated in the late seventies.

Description

The buildings on the singel are erected on rectangular floor plans and comprise two storeys under hipped roofs. The facades are built of bright red pressed brick and provided with plinths of dark tiled clinker with a glazed coping moulding. The three-bay-wide dwellings 23, 47 and 49 have on the ground floor two doors (for lower and upper dwellings) and two intervening windows. On the upper storey three windows are installed. All wall openings are square-topped with sober worked lintels and segmental arches with tracery in the arch voussoirs. Friezes, indicated with a profiled band of glazed stone on consoles, close off the facades. Chapels are fitted against the front roof slopes. Building no. 48 received the same articulation, but with a more decorative design. All wall openings are closed with segmental arches. Between the storeys is a meandering cornice band and for the roof the middle bay was walled up as a cabin with a stepped gable. The most striking element on the singel side is the access gateway between nos. 23 and 47. The gateway contains heavy pillars in neo-Renaissance forms with Ionic capitals, which bear both the arch of the post and sculptures. The sculptures represent allegorical female figures personifying Rest and Peace. On the arch the name "Remonstrantsch Gasthuis" is indicated. In the apex of the gateway is furthermore a foundation stone (1899) with a cartouche installed. The 23 courtyard dwellings have received a characteristic design. The oldest ones (north and west) have hipped roofs with crockets on the corners and chapels on the front roof slopes, roof-ridges with negatives and keystones above the window and door openings. The facades are built of red brick and enlivened with sill bands of artificial stone. The front facade of each dwelling is three bays wide. The rows of dwellings built in 1905-1906 are likewise three bays wide. The doors are placed in pairs, above which gable tops are walled up. The facades are enlivened with bands at the height of lower and upper sills and the spans above the square-topped windows are provided with keystones. Both the tall buildings with gateway on the singel and the low house rows around the courtyard are simply but carefully designed.

Valuation

Gasthuis complex, consisting of 27 dwellings, together forming the Remonstrants gasthuis, of general importance because of its great cultural-historical and architectural-historical value because of the architectural quality, the spatial concept and because of its significance for the social-historical history of the city of Groningen.