Gemeentehuis, Dorpsstraat 106

English translation

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Description

Introduction TOWN HALL of the municipality of Obdam, built circa 1875 to the design of A.C. Bleijs in eclectic style. The town hall stands on the west side of the Dorpsstraat, with the ridge line parallel to the street and is separated from it by six sandstone pillars. N.B. the attached components on the rear side fall outside the protection. Description Town hall, built on a rectangular ground plan and consisting of ground floor, first storey and attic storey under a hipped roof with slate in Maas laying. The roof has chimneys with iron decorations at both ridge points. Centrally on the ridge stands a wooden bell-turret. The masonry is executed in red brick, with yellow brick also used for decoration alongside natural stone. Natural stone is applied among other things in the plinth, guttering and corbels. The front facade and both side facades are richly decorated, the rear facade is undecorated. The symmetrically arranged front facade (E) has five window bays. The emphasis lies on the central axis, among other things through a projecting entrance section with a platform on the ground floor, lion sculptures with coats of arms which flank the entrance section at the level of the first-storey floor and a small triangular gable top with a clock and obelisks which closes off the central axis. The base of the right (N) lion sculpture contains the text: "A.C. Bleijs architecte Hoorn". The base of the left lion sculpture contains a text which refers to a Brussels sculptor. The front facade is articulated horizontally, among other things through a rendered plinth, rustication, string courses and guttering. The front facade is articulated vertically through pilaster strips on both corners of the facade and on either side of the central axis. The window bays contain arched six-light windows, the double (renewed) door in the entrance section has an arched fanlight. The arched form is created in the masonry of the ground floor by relieving arches in which the rustication of the masonry is continued. The first storey has smooth relieving arches, the undersides of which are connected to each other with rendered moulding. To the left of the front facade stands a richly worked wooden showcase cabinet for announcements. The cabinet has a four-light casement window. The flat cabinet stands on two legs and is fixed at the rear against a wall which is laid in the manner of the front facade and is connected with it at the gable end. The left side facade (S) and the right side facade (N) are each blind on the ground floor and each on the first storey provided with two arched spandrel fields. The rear facade has on the first storey three six-light windows. The sandstone pillars are round, stand on a plinth in red brick and are connected to each other by wrought-iron chains. The interior still contains a number of original components such as two chimneypieces and a stucco rosette and a stained-glass window above a former counter on the ground floor, facade stones in the central corridor - among other things with the year 1874 in Roman numerals - and a chimney-piece in the council chamber. The mentioned rosette on the ground floor contains the text: "All that happens under this rose tells that to another not". Valuation The town hall with the mentioned associated components is of general importance as a well-preserved example of 19th-century government architecture in the countryside.