Hoekelum

English translation

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Description

Description

MAIN BUILDING HUIS HOEKELUM. Rectangular partly moated house, built in red brick under a flattened hipped roof with turret. The roof is covered with dampened Dutch tiles. Hoekelum is medieval in origin, probably rebuilt shortly after 1542 and substantially modified around 1735. The house was again rebuilt in 1846-1849 by Arnhem architect Fromberg, who among other things designed the curved zinc roof with turret with machicolations, dial and tent roof. The house was most recently substantially rebuilt by Hanrath in 1911-1916, whereby the main characteristic of the house was preserved, but whereby the house was deepened, raised and widened and reconstructed almost entirely inside and out. The house consists of a basement and two high storeys. The front elevation has a symmetrical arrangement with centrally the projecting stepped gable with monumental natural stone stoep and framed entrance. The main entrance consists of a double glass door with semi-circular fanlight with spoke glazing bars. On either side a small window with anti-theft bars and in the jamb a keystone. Above the entrance a balcony with wrought-iron railing (probably from around 1780, inscription GWB, presumably Gerrit Willem van Balveren). The balcony is accessed via a double door framed by pilasters and cornice with a semi-circular fanlight with spoke glazing bars. On either side and above windows with keystones. The projection is concluded with a moulding decorated with metopes (rosettes and rams' heads, the latter possibly derived from the coat of arms of the Van Hoekelums) and triglyphs. The triangular pediment has in the tympanum a crowned heraldic shield (Van Balveren) borne by lions. On either side of the stepped gable is a narrow bay, on the corners a broad projection with two bays. In the basement are small double casement windows with shutters. These and the windows on the piano nobile have natural stone sills. The windows of the upper storeys consist of casement windows with a segmental fanlight with above it a segmental jamb. In the narrow bay a casement window with fanlight. At roof height two roof dormers with brick sides, flat roof and casement window. Left gable: three window axes with windows as in front elevation. In basement a Dutch door. The suspension of the bell is still present. Right gable: two window axes. In basement a double glass door. Rear elevation: symmetrically arranged facade with in the middle a broad projecting section with three bays. On either side the recessed section with on the piano nobile a conservatory above which a balcony. The conservatories are provided with a round-arched window with iron glazing bars, which in the fanlight run radiantly outward. The balconies are accessed via double glass doors. The left ones are provided with shutters, of which the lower part is a panel and the upper part a Venetian blind. Interior: in the house two important elements from before the rebuild by Hanrath: the cellar and the great hall, the latter decorated with relief panels in stucco with allegorical representations, Italian monuments from classical antiquity and attributes of outdoor life, applied by the Tyrolean stucco worker Lauran Rief in 1787. When the interior was demolished in 1913, at the demolition of a monumental stucco ceiling the following inscription came to light: Gestukator von Lauran Rief aus Tirol gebortig mit drei gesellen 1787. In the basement a cellar with heavy walls and barrel and cross vaults, possibly still medieval. The piano nobile has an almost symmetrical layout. The rooms are in most cases provided with floors, wooden panelling etc. applied during the rebuild of 1911-1916. Via a portals one enters the T-shaped stairwell and hall. Straight ahead one enters the great hall, left into the sitting room and right into the dining room. Via the two rooms on either side one enters the conservatories. Principal components per room are: stairwell: wooden stairs with landings; hall: doors, beam ceiling; great hall: except for plinth and floor almost entirely executed in stuccowork by Rief in 1787; the walls are articulated by means of pilasters with a volute as crowning; the fields between the pilasters are decorated with musical instruments, foliage, etc. held together by ribbons; there are four plaques decorated with medallions and various attributes, derived from the Greek divine world; the ceiling is decorated with a border of stylised foliage; furthermore there is a natural stone chimney breast. In the sitting room there are wooden panellings and doors in Dutch neo-Renaissance style; furthermore there is a chimney breast with tiles and natural stone columns in Ionic order; the stucco ceiling is provided with 'ribs'.

Valuation

HUIS HOEKELUM is of general cultural-historical and architectural importance:

- because of its age;

- because of the architectural design of the house, both exterior and interior as an expression of an early 20th-century historicising restoration of a main building of a country estate by Hanrath;

- because of the well-preserved 18th-century great hall with stucco decorations by the Austrian stucco worker Lauran Rief;

- because of the characteristic location within the historic garden and park layout.