Stationsgebouw, Stationsplein 1

English translation

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Description

Introduction.

Station building designed by G.W. Van Heukelom and D.E.C. Knuttel from around 1905. The richly decorated building bears characteristics of a Berlage architectural style.

Description.

The building consists of several adjoining building masses, together forming an elongated plan, parallel to the railway lines. The main building is executed in brick on a plinth clad with granite slabs. Several constructive and decorative elements such as the springstones of the relieving arches are executed in natural stone. The roofs are covered with tiles. The various elements are distinguished by the partition and party walls that protrude above the roof surfaces. The most important and oldest part is a two-storey building mass on a rectangular plan under a hipped roof with a flat apex, with a central risalit with a stepped gable. On the left side extended with an equally high section that on the front on the ground floor has a protruding one-storey section under a half-hipped roof. Adjoining this, the customs building, one storey at the street side with a stepped gable in the middle, above the roof shield a superstructure with a light bay. The side facade is two storeys high with a climbing round-arch frieze above which the light bay continues. In the light bay large round-arch windows placed closely together with metal frames. Adjacent to this, set back from the customs building, a one-storey building mass under a flat roof. To the right of the main building the later infill by Van Ravenstein, which adjoins a remnant of the old station, a building mass from 1907 under a flat roof with roof shields. Against the side facade again a round-arch frieze. The front facade of the main mass has large composite three-part window sets. On the ground floor rectangular windows with in the arched fanlights small glazing bars and cathedral glass. The fanlights are each three within a bay beneath a segmental arch. The windows on the upper floor each form three a round arch, also here with small glazing bars. Below them are images applied up to the segmental arch of the windows below. The images in section tiles represent different countries, per bay a globe is depicted, flanked by heraldic shields of Greece, Turkey, Russia, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, England, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. In the central risalit an entrance has been made. In the stepped gable a round-arch window above which a sculpture of a winged wheel has been placed, the old symbol of the Dutch Railways. The top is finished with a natural stone band. Scattered in the roof surface several roof dormers with wooden cladding. The left section, which is separated from the main mass by a party wall, has on the ground floor standing windows with small glazing bars, on the upper floor larger windows. The flat roof of the protruding section has a balustrade. The corners crowned with shell motif.

The customs office is three bays wide and has per bay a composite window of three rectangular windows beneath a continuous list with above three arched fanlights with small glazing bars, summarized beneath a segmental arch. In the middle a modern entrance with canopy, crowned by a stepped gable. The side facade has only on the ground floor two windows, in a narrower execution as before. Further the facade is blank. The rear facade of this office has a number of rectangular windows as in the front facade of which the fanlights have small glazing bars. Above the doors some metal lintels. In the middle section lie the large composite windows in recessed planes. These planes have at the top segmental arches with natural stone springstones and closing stones and are framed by profiled struck brickwork. Further towards the east natural stone lintels have been applied above the windows, above them segmental arches in the masonry. Above narrow doors remnants of inscriptions ("men" and "women") are legible. The side facade at the right end of the station has at the corners lower projecting building masses with doors on the ground floor and above them several small windows that are offset relative to each other.

In the interior important parts of the original condition have been preserved. The middle section of the main mass is now fitted out as a restaurant, in the front section clean masonry in red struck brickwork, lambrissed to wainscoting height with green-turquoise glazed tiles from the period of construction is visible. Pilasters in red struck brickwork on a stone base carry wall arches, likewise executed in red struck brickwork. In the space behind are windows to the platforms with cathedral glass in the fanlights. The clock (relocated) consists of section tiles. (Other section tile tableaux with representations of sun and moon are preserved among other places in the customs building). Behind the building mass lie the covered platforms and tracks, connected by tunnels. The platforms run both on the east and west side beyond the building mass of the station. At the street side separated by a glass wall with metal frames on a brick wall. Against the rear of the station building lies the first platform under a gabled roof on a riveted girder portal frame. The posts against the rear facade of the station have a natural stone base, the free-standing posts on the platform are entirely executed in iron. At the location of the stairwells light caps have been applied. At the height of the restaurant two wide stairs, coming together at one staircase, to the platforms again split into two stairs. All executed in granite. The tunnel is covered over by brick barrel vaults on iron beams, supported by wider iron beams. The walls of the stairwell are executed in white struck brickwork, the rounded corners clad with granite.

The middle platform (of second and third track) has a covering of a gently sloping gabled roof, executed in wood on riveted iron portal frames. On the platform stand several small buildings including a platform keeper's lodge, executed in framework of facing brick in iron. Of the signal box P the building volume is still present between tunnel stairs and platform covering. Now in use as accommodation for the platform service management.

Valuation.

The station building with coverings, platform structures and underpasses is of general interest. It has cultural-historical significance as an expression of a socio-economic, technical and typological development. In addition it has architectural historical value because of style and the decorative additions tailored to the character of a border station. It has ensemble value as an essential component of the entire station complex. It has been relatively well preserved.