VREDE

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Splendidly executed small VILLA with GARDEN GATE called VREDE built in 1901 to designs by the Oosterbeek architect J. VAN BURK commissioned by the architect J.A. VOORHOEVE (1847-1929) from Rotterdam. The villa forms a fine example of the Transitional architecture characteristic of the building period, notable particularly for influences from the Chalet style, the Neo-Renaissance style and to a lesser extent the Art Nouveau style. The client initially rented out the property and only moved into the dwelling after several years. The villa is situated in an area bounded by Wilhelminastraat, Jacobaweg, Prins Hendrikstraat and Utrechtseweg for which the urban design was created by the well-known landscape architect Samuel Voorhoeve (1880-1948), son of J.A. Voorhoeve. Wilhelminastraat has retained its original character well. The handsomely situated property at the corner of this street and Jacobaweg is positioned diagonally opposite and is surrounded by a small garden with a semicircular entrance drive. The plot is surrounded by a cast and wrought iron railing gate in which a double swing gate is located both on the side of Wilhelminastraat and on the side of Jacobaweg. The Remonstrant church situated at the opposite street corner was also designed by J. van Burk.

Description

The VILLA is built on an approximately rectangular plan and has one storey under a gabled roof with the ridge directed towards the junction of the Wilhelminastraat and the Jacobaweg. The roof is covered with red largely glazed Tuile du Nord tiles and is fitted on the ridge with a terra-cotta crête which ends on the side of the front facade in a terra-cotta piron. In the left roof slope there is a tall rendered chimney while in the right roof slope there is a small chimney placed close against the ridge as well as a second rendered modest chimney, both also rendered. In both roof slopes there are several modern roof windows of modest dimensions. The gabled top at the front is fitted with richly executed ornamental roof timbers supported by two corbel sets with ajour-worked panels. Both gabled tops are fitted with profiled wind braces. The facades of the building are rendered and whitewashed and have a grey-washed plinth. The facades are enlivened among other things by a band executed in red, yellow and black decorative brick at the height of the fanlights of the windows. The front and rear facades also have decorative brick bands in the gabled tops at the level of the under- and top dorpels of the windows. The side facades are finished with a projecting dentil course in red decorative brick which is interrupted at regular intervals by small wall dams. Above this is a profiled wooden rainwater gutter on carved brackets. The window and door openings are mostly closed by blind segmental arches in red decorative brick with springer and closing stones in yellow decorative brick. The arch barrels are filled with patterned tiles with block motif in blue, white and black. At the level of door openings the segmental arches connect to the continuous decorative brick band. The wooden drip mouldings are painted grey. Beneath each drip moulding is a decorative band in red and yellow decorative brick. The windows are mostly fitted with venetian blinds. The FRONT FACADE is symmetrically arranged and is three bays wide. The internal porch located in the middle bay has a floor laid with black and ochre-coloured tiles. The entrance is fitted with a fine panelled door with two cast-iron grilles with central ornament and a single-paned fanlight. On either side of the porch the facade has a window with a T-sash frame. The first floor has two windows with horizontal sash windows and single-paned fanlights. In the facade surface in the middle above both windows is a freestone nameplate with the inscription VREDE in relief. The asymmetrically arranged LEFT SIDE FACADE has slightly left of centre a window with a T-frame and to the right a door opening with a sliding door with two glass panels and a single-paned fanlight. The REAR FACADE is asymmetrically arranged and on the ground floor from left to right: a later hacked-out window, two small windows with bars and single-paned small panes and finally a door opening with a renewed door and a four-paned fanlight above which is a modern canopy. The first floor has a centrally placed round window with cast-iron daisy frame for lighting the rear stairwell. On either side of this window is a window with a horizontal sash window and single-paned fanlight. The RIGHT SIDE FACADE has on the left a fine conservatory constructed in wood and glass with sliding doors under a lean-to roof covered with red Tuile du Nord tiles.

The conservatory is composed of a framework of posts and rails filled with panels, multi-pane windows and fanlights. The short sides of the conservatory are closed at the top by wooden cladding. To the right of the conservatory is a window with a T-sash window. In the INTERIOR there are among other things a corridor with tile flooring, panelled doors, chimneypieces, stucco ceilings, a staircase with carved newel post, various tilings in the manner of the Dutch variant of Art Nouveau known as De Nieuwe Kunst. The cellar situated beneath the kitchen is equipped with barrel vaults.

The property is surrounded by a cast and wrought iron railing FENCE, in which there are double swing gates both on the Wilhelminastraat side and on the Jacobaweg side.

Valuation

VILLA with GARDEN FENCE called VREDE built in 1901 in Transitional Architecture to the design of architect J. VAN BURK on commission of architect J.A. VOORHOEVE from ROTTERDAM.

- Of architectural historical value as a fairly well-preserved picturesque small villa in Transitional Architecture in which there is predominantly a rich combination of the Neo-Renaissance style and the Chalet style. The house is of importance because of the high-quality aesthetic qualities of the design, as these are expressed in particular in the application of decorative bands in facing brick, an ornamental roof truss with openwork panel infills and the careful execution of the conservatory. The building, of which the spatial layout is still present, also retains multiple original interior components including stucco ceilings, panelled doors and chimneypieces. The villa is also of importance for the oeuvre of J. van Burk.

- Of urban planning value as part of the villa development dating predominantly from the second half of the nineteenth century in the core of Oosterbeek. The villa has ensemble value as part of this villa development in general and as part of the villa development designed on commission of Voorhoeve on Wilhelminastraat and surroundings in particular. Because of the prominent visually defining location on the corner of Wilhelminastraat and Jacobaweg, the building also has situational value.

- Of cultural historical value as an expression of a social and societal development characteristic of the municipality of Renkum between 1850 and 1940, namely the immigration of (new) wealthy individuals to attractive rural areas in the surroundings of a city: in this case a villa in the core of Oosterbeek which would develop in the second half of the nineteenth century into a villa village, situated in the wooded area of the southern Veluwezoom near Arnhem. The large influx of wealthy individuals would considerably change the social stratification of the population in Oosterbeek.