v.m. Bergoss fabriek

English translation

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Description

Introduction

In 1919 on behalf of the firm gebrs. Van den Bergh according to a design by the Nijmegen architect Oscar Leeuw in the forms of art nouveau and neo-renaissance, an OFFICE BUILDING was erected. During the construction period it was located on the southern edge of a large site on which the Bergoss factories would gradually develop. The building is nowadays rented to other businesses. Oscar Leeuw was as architect also responsible for the architecture of much of the business buildings of the firm along the Oostwal.

Description

Undercellared and composite building on a roughly square ground plan of two storeys with facades in fair-faced brickwork. The building consists of three parts: the front part is covered with a composite hipped roof covered with tuile-du-Nord roof tiles, an intermediate section under a flat roof and the rear part under a bent marquee roof covered with tiles. Striking entrance portal with natural stone steps and Tuscan-Doric columns. On the frieze the inscription office is applied in relief. Fine wooden casement door with ornament in stylistic motifs and with metal fittings. On the left side there is a former porter's lodge which was heightened in the nineteen-thirties. This falls outside the protection granted by central government. All facades have straight-closed window openings. The windows have sash frames with glazing bars. The front facade of the building is symmetrically arranged and erected above a natural stone plinth. The facade has a slightly higher raised central risalit with a natural stone facade plaque FA. GEBRs v/d BERGH. The very rich facade detailing was created by means of brick decorations and natural stone ornamental capitals of the brick pilasters with Art-Nouveau-like ornament. Overhanging and stepped gutter line on consoles. In the left part of the front facade, next to the entrance, a large solid cast-iron plaque with the royal coat of arms is mounted. Internally the layout of the ground floor has been somewhat modified by various alterations. Particularly important are the tile tableau located in the entrance hall with a contemporary depiction in sepia of the business and the office building as it must have looked in 1919. Furthermore, small landscapes, older business establishments, coats of arms and initials are depicted on it. This tableau was presented in 1919 by the staff to the management on the occasion of the silver jubilee of the business. Furthermore, the directors' offices separated from each other by a sliding door are important. The interior of these rooms is still virtually entirely intact with oak wall panelling in neo-renaissance style, an oak parquet floor and a finely detailed fireplace with surround and blue-green glazed brick.

Valuation

The office building is as a special expression of both a socio-economic and a typological development of general cultural-historical importance. The office building has particular architectural-historical importance because of the special use of materials and the ornament in particular brick, natural stone wood and tiles. The office building is of general importance because of the high-quality architectural quality of the constituent components. The office building is of general importance because of the architectural and typological rarity.