Klooster, Korvelseweg 165

English translation

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Description

Introduction.

The Capuchin monastery was built in 1880-1882 in the austere style characteristic of the Capuchins. For this purpose, a dedicated architect was engaged, Brother Valenus of Deurne. In 1937 an extra storey was added under the direction of Brother Felix of Dennenburg. This was done in a special manner whereby the old roof truss was jacked up. The interior of the monastery was partly altered in 1983. In 1999 it serves as a home for the elderly for the order. The associated walled kitchen garden has now been converted into a park with tall conifers. An old beech-lined avenue from the time of construction partially recalls the original layout, when it was much more extensive.

Description.

The three-storey building has a square ground plan, one side of which is occupied by the monastery church. The facades are built of red Belgian brick, with only a dentil moulding under the roof eaves as decoration. On the surrounding gabled roofs lie both artificial slate and timber shingles. The front facade of the monastery steps back in relation to the monastery church. The front facade has ten bays. The arched sash windows with hinged fanlights have a small glazing bars division from 1937. The entrance door is narrow and placed under a straight wooden canopy. The windows on the storeys above have a smaller format. The sash windows here do not have double back panes but a six-pane division and the fanlights no eighteen-pane but a twelve-pane division. Nine-pane roof dormers with gabled roofs are placed in the roof plane. The long right-hand side facade of the monastery is partially occupied by the recreation room built in 1967, which falls outside the protection. The windows have a fairly irregular layout, some windows such as on the left corner are bricked up. The windows on the ground floor correspond with those of the front facade. On the left there is again a door under a wooden canopy and fifteen-pane arched fanlight. The majority of the windows on the storeys are arched six-pane small windows, where eight-pane windows were inserted in 1983. Some windows are executed as those on the ground floor. Two roof dormers with gabled roofs are placed in the roof. On the left a lifting installation with canopy and door has been built, on the right two large roof dormers with flat roofs with small glazing bars divisions of the windows are visible. Above this a small open-work tower spire is visible. In it hung a bell which was connected to the large clock located under the large roof dormer on the left. This was the master clock: it was not only visible in the garden but the clock mechanism ran through the entire building to all clocks.

The rear facade has eight bays of which seven with arched windows and an extension under a flat roof with door and small high windows, the toilet building. On the storey there are mostly small windows of the monastery cells. The second storey has twelve-pane hinged windows. The arched fanlights are bricked up. The two building phases of the monastery are most clearly visible here, in particular through the colour difference in the brick used. Via the main entrance one enters the cloister walk under a lean-to roof. In it are large round-arch windows with iron ornamental glazing bars and marble window sills. The doors are provided with a bead moulding. On the courtyard stand slender black cast-iron crosses, which were copied in 1995 after the old model. Here the brothers are buried. The first was the builder of the monastery, brother Valenius in 1884. In the corridor a wooden board with decorative carving commemorates these brothers. A large cross with white cast-iron Corpus is also placed in the courtyard. The courtyard has on the storeys in front and rear facades wide arched sash windows. On the side facades are small arched six-pane windows, where the monastery cells were located.

Rooms that bear witness to the austerity of the brothers are the two toilets and the hall, ingeniously lit by only one small lamp. The refectory, a rectangular hall of five window axes and a beamed ceiling, breathes the same simplicity. An important room is the sacristy. This has dark carved oakwork and wainscoting in exactly the same rich Neo-Baroque style as in the church. The table is inlaid with wood in geometric pattern along the entire length of the wall, credenza, below this cupboards and above this carving of chalice with host in Neo-Baroque surround and a small crucifix above. At the major renovation in 1983 the monastery cells were mainly adapted, furthermore the monument values were respected. Internally by changing the central corridor into a corridor at the side of the courtyard. The simple doors and shutters were reused in the now larger cells equipped with sanitary facilities. Externally the appearance changed by making an eight-pane window in the same style between the six-pane windows, whereby light entry was greatly improved. The attic storey has, in addition to the storage function, a series of (guest) rooms.

Valuation.

The monastery is of general importance. It has cultural-historical value as an example of a spiritual development, namely the flourishing of orders and congregations in the nineteenth century and is also of importance as an example of the late nineteenth-century re-creation of the ancient Capuchin monastery type. It is of architectural-historical importance because of the style, the special use of materials and the ornamentation, applied within the extremely simple, traditional formal canon of the Capuchin order. It has ensemble values because of the coherence of monastery and economic buildings. It is also of importance in relation to the integrity of the urban environment.