Hotel, Ginnekenstraat 134

English translation

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Description

Introduction

The town house at the corner of Ginnekenstraat and Van Coothplein was built in 1895 to a design by J. van Dongen sr. The building originally served as a HOTEL. Characteristic of the building executed in Neo-Renaissance style is the bevelled corner gable, which together with a tower-like crown gives the building an important role in the urban structure of the location in general, and between the old town and the nineteenth-century urban expansion in particular. Around 1970 the layout of the shopfront, which originally had arched windows, as well as some windows on the storeys was somewhat simplified.

Description

The building, which in proportion to its width and depth and in relation to the adjoining properties is relatively tall with a roughly square floor plan, has three storeys plus two roof storeys and is covered by a triangular flat roof, set off by a low wrought-iron roof railing, beneath which on three sides is a roof covering with slate in Maas bond. The facades are built in brick and are divided horizontally by a sandstone plinth and a large number of profiled stuccoed and natural stone sill and string courses.

Brick pilasters against corners and party walls provide vertical articulation. The non-built-in facades, on the Ginnekenstraat side (east side) and Van Coothplein (south side) have a similar arrangement under a gable, although the southern facade has an additional, straight-sided fourth bay, with the entrance to the upper dwelling on the ground floor. In the bevelled corner gable, with a single window axis, is the entrance to the former hotel on the ground floor. Above this is the high relief in neo-classical style, in memory of General Van Ham. The bust of the general is set up in a framed surround with pediment. The distinctive crown of the building consists of two identical gables, each with compartments separated by string courses, the lower one with four windows, above it two low reliefs with the inscription: "Anno / 1895". The whole is provided with a natural stone coping, furnished with ornamental vases. The crowning eight-sided roof turret stands against the south-eastern roof covering and has a point with an iron weathervane.

Between the renewed shopfront windows is a deep, arched portico with shop door. The entrance to the upper dwelling has a panelled door with cast-iron grill and fanlight. The windows on the storey are casement windows with divided fanlight, above which simple casement windows.

In the partly remodelled interior, the remaining panelled doors and the stuccoed ceilings on the storeys are among other things of importance.

Valuation

The town house is of general importance. The building has architectural-historical values: it is of particular importance for the oeuvre of architect J. van Dongen sr.; it is of importance because of its rich and picturesque composition and ornamentation; it is of importance as a typical example of the design of the Breda residential house in the urban expansion of the late nineteenth century. It has ensemble values: it has significance as an essential part of a larger whole through its distinctive location and mass effect, namely the urban expansion of Breda at the site of the demolished ramparts, which is of national importance in terms of cultural-historical, architectural-historical and urban planning significance.