Ev.Luth.Diaconie/Zwaardvegershof

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Description

Introduction The HOF of the Evangelisch Lutherse Gemeente, built in 1907-1909, now called 'Het Lutherhof', formerly called 'Evangelisch Lutherse Diaconie- en Zwaardvegershofjes'. The opening took place on 2 July 1909. The Lutherhof was built with strictly symmetrical facades according to a design by architect D. van Oort Hzn. in a style inspired by Neo-Dutch Renaissance. The contractors were Domhof and De Vlugt. Originally the courtyard was intended to house 70 residents. There was also a caretaker's dwelling incorporated into the building at that time. The front facade (W) is situated at the rectangular Staringplein. The natural stone facade stones against the facades of the small (emergency) staircases at the inner courtyard are from the Konijnenhofje, a predecessor of the Lutherhof. The stones with the inscriptions 'Vreede, Liefde, Geloof en Hoop' date from 1670, those with the inscriptions 'Opregtheid, Waerheid, Stantvastigheid en Overwinning' date from 1720. Above the entrance of the small building in the middle of the Konijnenhofje, which served as a storage place among other things, the following lines of verse were chiselled in stone: 'Geloov en Hoop doen hier haar milde gaaven blijken De Lievde voed de Vreede en koestert arremoe: Opregtighyd blinkt uyt, de Waerhyd juygt ons toe: Soo kan Stantvastighyd met overwinning prijken.' This facade stone was also transferred in 1909 to the then newly built Diaconiehof on the Staringplein. On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Lutherhof in 1934, the garden urn was placed in the garden of the inner courtyard; a commemorative plaque was also placed in the hall/entrance. The courtyard has been renovated several times. During the work in 1982, according to a design by architect A.J. Starreveld, the residential units were consolidated into 60 dwellings, excluding the caretaker's dwelling.

Description

A courtyard building constructed on an approximately square ground plan with three storeys above the basement and a roof structure. The building consists of a front section and two wings around an inner courtyard and is closed off by gabled roofs with tiles. Roofs with half-hipped ends with an open roof dormer with weathervane in the form of a swan - one of the symbols of the Lutheran church - and roof ornaments and various roof dormers with single or double shutters. On either side of the facade facing the square are slightly projecting corner pavilions. The facades have strict symmetry and are built of brick on a plinth with natural stone accents at brick courses and under-sills, brick spandrels and moulded and coupled relieving arches above the windows. The front facade has on either side of the central section with entrance five window bays with cross windows. Windows have double nine-light fanlight on the ground floor and double six-light fanlights on the storeys above. Entrance section with shallow and moulded portico in which set back arched double wooden entrance door with ornamental fittings and multi-light lights. Continuous alternating brickwork and natural stone blocks. On either side a simple entrance door in adapted execution. Above this is located a facade stone. The side facades have narrower windows on the west side and a shallow recess extending over the storeys in which on the ground floor is a simple entrance with semicircular fanlight. The remaining facade has eight window bays with cross windows. Behind the main entrance is the particularly fine passage as a three-aisled space with central hall and access to the caretaker's dwelling and passage to the regents' room. The porter's lodge also has a view of the hall. On either side of the passage to the inner courtyard is a staircase with handrail. The stairwell has windows with leaded light glazing. The walls of the passage and hall and passage are of brick and have wainscoting of glazed brick and a frieze in similarly coloured stone. The undersides of the pillars and spalling stones are of natural stone. The brick vaults above the passage are moulded cloister vaults. Other vaults above the side aisles and passage. Wide double opening wooden doors with moulding, glazing bars and panels. The monumental entrance in the front facade leads via the central hall to a large five-sided brick-built and corbelled stairwell under a tent roof and with coupled windows with round arches. Further the marble commemorative plaque on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the building coming into use. Both wings of the Lutherhof enclose the inner courtyard. This courtyard is closed off on the east side by a building with one storey and bevelled corners. Three doors provide access to this space, which originally contained the mortuary (left) and the washroom (right). Windows with glazing bars and tilt windows in the fanlight. The facade termination has a coping with a clock as a crowning element. The clockwork is no longer original. The former mortuary has an interior with tiled walls with white tiles and bands in blue-black tiles. Furthermore a small text frieze with 'Memento Mori'. Inner courtyard with broad natural stone perron steps with four treads and seven coupled round arches on brick pillars on natural stone bases with natural stone collar and coping stones. On the storeys an arcade with Tuscan columns on bases between brick balustrade; the long sides (N. and S.) have fourteen arches, the short sides on either side of the central stairwell each three. Between the tall bases of the columns an openwork brick coping. Behind the arcade a gallery with the entrance doors to the dwellings. The apartments all have views to the street side. Apart from the large stairwell behind the main entrance in the middle, there are located at the NE corner and SE corner of the inner courtyard in total two higher-built stone (emergency) staircases with on the storeys always a pair of coupled round-arch windows. For safety reasons, the attic storey was already originally divided into sections by fireproof partition walls and iron doors.

The regents' room has oak wainscoting, a parquet floor, windows with oak-framed internal shutters with the original hanging and closing mechanism, a ceiling with main and secondary beams and a marble fireplace with on either side of a built-in clock an image on the wing section in relief of a swan. Assessment

Early 20th-century courtyard of the Evangelisch Lutherse Gemeente of general importance because of its architectural and cultural-historical value, as well as because of its typological value. The courtyard is furthermore situated in a particular way in relation to the public space and street frontage. The interior of the regents' room has an (art) historical value. The facade stones, largely from earlier Lutheran courtyards, and the garden urn and the commemorative plaque form an added historical value.