Industrie- en poldermolen, Nekummerweg 25

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Description

Introduction

WATERMILL on the Jeker, 1869, named Nekummermolen. Situated in the southern outlying area of Maastricht, in transverse direction on the western riverbank. The mill forms a cultural-historical unit with the Villa Canne and associated coach houses. The Nekummermolen was built on the site of an older grain/fulling mill, which was purchased in 1856 by Petrus Regout. At the instruction of Petrus Regout, the old mill was demolished and the new Nekummermolen was built. This mill remained in use until 1930 at the N.V. Sphinx as an earthenware or glaze mill for the production of glazing. The grinding machinery of the new Nekummermolen was designed and built by the Ateliers de Construction G.J. Pastéger from Liège. The sheds and storage facilities built around 1880 were largely demolished in 1902. In 1937, seven years after the machinery was shut down, the interior of the mill (working parts, cast-iron floor joists and columns) was entirely demolished by the company Dotremont for scrap iron. The wooden floor joists were preserved. After approximately half a century of disuse, the mill was converted into a residence by and for architect W.J. Dingemans. The wooden casing of the water wheel on the side facade has disappeared. The mergelstone wall with access gate, first half of the 18th century, around the old grain mill has been preserved. The wall section with gate building on the eastern bank of the Jeker is nationally protected under number 27979.

Description

The Nekummermolen has a basement, two storeys plus an attic storey on an almost rectangular floor plan, which is bevelled on the south-west side. The whole is covered by a gabled roof recessed between end gables with old-Dutch tiles and several roof windows. Gutters on stepwise built-up corbels. New, tall corner chimneys. The mill building is constructed of brickwork, laid in Flemish bond. Hardstone threshold stones. Wattle as wall coping in the end gables. Window and door stretches. Wall anchors. The window and door frames are, largely respecting the old layout and glazing bars, renewed. The facades are, with the exception of the west facade, irregularly arranged, partly due to conversion into a residence. On the first and second storeys as well as the attic storey of the east facade there are each three segmental arched steel 12-pane windows of recent date. On the first storey a segmental arched, narrow and tall window. In the basement storey three vertically staggered round-arched openings with window glass, originally intended for the drive construction between water wheel and grinding machinery. The south facade has three segmental arched, double steel doors with four-pane fanlight and a segmental arched double steel balcony door with simple balustrade. A rectangular steel, four-pane window and a segmental arched steel 12-pane window in the basement storey. Above the latter window a further two segmental arched steel 12-pane windows. The symmetrical west facade has three window bays. Centrally on the first storey the residential entrance with rectangular steel door and blue tiled porch. On the first and third bay three segmental arched steel 12-pane windows. On the middle bay, above the entrance two segmental arched steel 18-pane windows, a segmental arched steel 30-pane window and the facade stone with the inscription "P.R. 1869". The north facade is provided on the first storey with a rectangular door and two segmental arched steel 12-pane windows. On the second storey two ungrazed segmental arched windows and a segmental arched steel 12-pane window. On the third storey three segmental arched steel 12-pane windows. The eighteenth-century enclosure wall of the former grain mill continues on the western bank and surrounds, with the exception of a new gate section, almost the entire Nekummermolen. On the western Jeker bank, remains of the old quay walls are visible. In the Jeker are brick bridge abutments, between which the now vanished sluice gates provided for the water backup, by which the likewise missing undershot water wheel (Sagebien type, diameter 9 metres, width 2½ metres, 160 buckets) was driven. The INTERIOR of the Nekummermolen is completely modernized.

Valuation

The Nekummermolen is of great cultural-historical value as a special expression of a historical, socio-economic, landscape, technical and typological development. The function of glaze mill gave the Nekummermolen an innovative character. The architectural-historical values are determined by the building style as well as the aesthetic qualities of the mill. The Nekummermolen has very great ensemble values. The mill is the nucleus of the complex that has since been created, of which the Villa Canne and associated coach houses form the constituent parts. The mill has been preserved in a limited way, but is of very great importance for the structural integrity of the Villa Canne complex as well as for the visual integrity of the landscape surroundings. Moreover, with this glaze mill one can speak of a typological and functional rarity value.