Leerlooierijcomplex

English translation

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Description

Introduction.

A LEATHER TANNERY built around 1880 with adjoining vat yard and water pump, built in a craftsman-traditional building style for tanner H. van Rijckevorsel. The tannery stands prominently with its long facade on the Veerseweg, perpendicular to the tanner's dwelling and with its ridge line parallel to the street.

The grinding of oak bark, to obtain the raw material tannin necessary for the tanning process, was carried out in the standard mill (the 'Planken Molen') which was then located on the opposite side of the Veerseweg and which no longer exists. The object remained in use until the early 1990s of the 20th century.

Description.

The building, consisting of tarred wooden planks and brick, occupies a rectangular footplan and comprises a wet house and a drying loft beneath a gabled roof clad with Dutch tiles with (partly) ornamentally carved lamberkijn-like wind braces and gable finials. On the rear facade (south side) a now simplified extension with flat roof from 1909 (the former storage) and a water pump, then important for the large quantities of wash and rinse water needed in the tanning process. Wet house built with brick bonds in crosswise pattern, boarded on the street side (north side). Partly simplified, multi-pane windows with small glazing bars on brick setbacks, arched on the south and west sides and straight-closed on the east side. Clamped wooden entrance doors in the north and south facades. Boarded drying loft with characteristic ventilation flaps. Various clamped shutters. The wooden beams of the loft rest on load-bearing brick walls. Of the interior, the following are noteworthy among others: wooden stair to the drying loft, cemented rinse basins and a partial brick floor. On the rear yard lie various (remains of) tanning vats. These are vats of approximately two by two metres, buried in groups in the ground and closable with wooden cover plates, where hides were laid horizontally and sprinkled layer by layer with oak bark.

Valuation.

The leather tannery with vat yard and water pump is of general importance. The object has cultural-historical values. It is of importance as a particular expression of economic developments in Brabantine leather industry at the end of the nineteenth century. It is of importance for the typological development of early tannery buildings. The object has ensemble values. Together with the adjoining tannery building and the tanner's dwelling, the other tanning vats on the internal yard and the tannery complex at Veerseweg 56-58, it forms a characteristic component of a historically developed tanner's ensemble on the Veerseweg.

The object is of importance because of its typological recognisability as a vat tannery attached to a dwelling. It is rare because of the large number of tanning vats still present.