Hotel Schiller

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Hotel-restaurant created in two phases (1912-1913, 1914-1915), named 'Schiller'. The client for construction was Mr Fritz Schiller, director of the N.V. for the operation of the restaurant 'Schiller'. The architects were M.J.E. Lippits and N.H.W. Scholten. Built in a style related to the so-called reorientation towards traditional building methods. Associated with the construction was the Amsterdamsche Fabriek van Cementijzer-werken (Systeem Monier). On the original floor plan, it can be seen that the ground floor was largely occupied by the large hall. On the first floor were the remaining halls and offices. On the second, third and fourth floors were the corridors with the hotel rooms. Above the windows of the ground floor one could read: Schiller Hotel Café Restaurant Schiller. In 1921-1922 a renovation took place. Recently (XXD) roof dormers and a lift structure were added.

Description

Hotel-restaurant designed on a composite rectangular ground plan. The whole is covered by a combination of sloping hipped roof sections and flat roofs and contains six storeys: ground floor and five floors under a roof structure. The symmetrical and strongly horizontally and vertically articulated front facade is constructed from a combination of brick and natural stone. On the roof to the left side a relatively high structure. This structure has a square ground plan and shows chamfered corners. Constructed from laid brick and natural stone accents in the form of short stone bands on the corners; further natural stone cross windows and ornamented gable finish. On the front a series of small roof dormers with segmental pediments with moulded cornice.

On the ground floor wide arched passages. Arching surrounded by natural stone blocks. Above this the corbels and other support points of the balcony of the first floor. The windows on the front facade have central panes with very light arching with profiling at the corners. Further a jamb on lightly profiled small corbels. On the left and right side of the front facade a large three-sided projecting oriel window over four storeys. Oriels constructed from natural stone. Underneath a profiled plinth on corbels. The front of the oriel runs parallel to the front facade. The left oriel shows variations on cross windows at the level of the four storeys. Wrought iron flag-staff holder with curved support. The transition to the facade is chamfered on the left side. Here on three storeys a window with jamb and fanlight. On the top storey a simple window. On the right side of this oriel a single window and a quarter-round oriel over the second and third storeys. The underside rests on richly ornamented fan-shaped conch. Curved windows with jamb and threefold divided fanlight. Quarter-round oriel closed off with a profile band. Above this a small quarter-round metal railing and balcony in portico with fluted pillar with rusticated capital. The large three-sided oriel is terminated straight with corbels and cornice. Above this a balcony of the fifth storey. Metal railing between laid wide posts with cover plate. The right oriel shows at the front placed parallel to the front facade at the level of the four storeys composite window sections with centre and side windows and jambs and divided fanlights. The window section on the first floor has a leaded light window fill. Wrought iron flag-staff holder with curved support. On the left side this oriel has a second quarter-round oriel. On the right side a chamfered section over the third and fourth storeys, resting on a fan-shaped conch and closed off by a small three-sided balcony with metal railing. The wide central section of the facade has on the first floor a wide balcony with metal ornamental railing with three metal posts with double lanterns. Series of eight arched openings with alternating use of brick and natural stone. Ornamented keystones. Double hinged doors under light arching. Above the curved jamb a three-sided divided fanlight. Further partition screens on the balcony. Over the second, third and fourth storeys alternatively with the otherwise flat facade placed curved or segmental oriels. The flat facade section contains window sections with three-sided windows placed in a recess. The side windows thereof run receding backwards. Window sills, laid brick corbels and natural stone corner stones. Windows have casement windows and above the jamb on the front a three-sided divided fanlight. At the level of the second floor beneath the window sill is a natural stone ornament with floral and geometric motifs. On either side of the windows on the fourth storey are the heavy corbels supporting the profiled plate with projecting fifth storey. The three curved or segmental oriels are constructed with blocks of natural stone resting on fan-shaped conch at the springing between arches of the first floor. Conch with various profile and ornament strips. Console placed in the centre of the conch. At the level of the second floor the oriels have a central French window with ornamental wrought iron railing with flag-staff holder. Above the jamb a three-sided divided fanlight. Narrow windows with fanlight on either side. The window sections on the upper floors are similar. The French window is absent. At the fourth storey the side windows of these oriels are closed off by a square natural stone ornament with profiled border, egg-and-dart moulding and rosette. The projecting fifth storey shows four wide window sections with double hinged French windows with ornamental wrought iron railing with handrail. Next to this on either side a window with casement window and window sill. Further three simple window sections with double hinged French windows with railing. Facade section constructed from laid brick and blocks of natural stone placed in stone bands. Flat frieze with square ornaments and profiled corbels supporting the projecting gutter line with egg-and-dart moulding. This combination of frieze and gutter line is also carried through on the side facades. On the left side facade further at this height a single natural stone corbel demarcating this gutter line. Above the large oriels on the sides of the front facade a small projecting section of this fifth storey. Therein an opening with double hinged doors providing access to the balcony at the top of the oriels. The gutter line is broken above these two projecting sections. Facade sections closed off with a half-round pediment with profiled lines and an ornamented filling of the tympanum. Closed off with palmette.

Valuation Hotel-restaurant of general importance by virtue of its architectural and cultural historical value. Significance of the object as a special expression of a typological development. Starkly defining the townscape located at Rembrandtsplein. Front facade reasonably well preserved.