Gemaal(M3), Machinekade 19 Maarssen (Stichtse Vecht 26)

English translation

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Description

Introduction

In 1930 the Amsterdam municipal water supply had a new electrical PUMPING STATION built that replaced the steam pumping station.

In 1860 a steam pumping station with SLUICE was established for the drainage of the Bethune polder. This drainage attempt only succeeded in 1880. It proved relatively expensive to keep the polder dry since the agricultural land did not yield much. A solution came when Amsterdam's municipal water supply took over the drainage with the aim of supplying Amsterdam with drinking water. The new pumping station is an exponent of interwar architecture and was designed by the chief building inspector of the water supply, Mr. Ammerdoffer. It was erected on the foundations of the old pumping station. The machines were manufactured among others by Jaffa Utrecht, Smit Slikkeveer and Eisenwerk Wülfel. Since 1971 the pumping station has been out of service, but still on standby as an auxiliary pumping station. Around 1930 a double service house was built at the pumping station with a meeting room in it. This is of secondary importance for preservation.

Description

The pumping station, situated on the Machinekade, at the edge of the Bethune polder, is erected on a rectangular ground plan above a chalk-rendered foundation with roll moulding in red brickwork and comprises one storey under a gabled roof covered with red improved Dutch tiles. Wall buttresses and pilasters are erected in grey brickwork. Against both side facades (the south and north facades) is a single-storey extension set under a flat roof with overhanging wooden guttering. Windows and doors are set under stone lintels. The windows are partly still fitted with the original steel frames and have large sills.

The front facade or west facade is a symmetrically designed top facade flanked by corner pilasters of grey brickwork with a coping in decorative brickwork. In the centre three vertical narrow windows are set between lightly emphasised wall buttresses of grey brickwork. The gable top is fitted with decorative brickwork. The single-storey extensions each contain two windows.

The rear side, bordering the Bethune polder, is higher than the polder and has a concrete substructure. The rear facade is identical to the front facade, with the exception of a chimney on the top facade and a non-original iron door with grilles. The left side facade has large iron panel doors on the left, in the centre two small windows with frosted glass, on the right a non-original casement door with beside it a narrow window with iron bars.

The right side facade has a double iron panel door on the left, in the centre four six-pane windows and far right an iron panel door.

The interior layout is largely original and consists of a main chamber under gabled roof, the extension on the south side and a number of small service rooms including transformer room in the extension on the north side. The main chamber contains a vacuum pump, a large and a small centrifugal pump and a valve. The walls are of yellow, grey and black glazed stone, the floors are tiled. The roof truss structure is fitted with a Polonceau steel truss. On the west side a small office has been created by installing a partition wall of iron and glass. At the waterway along the Machinekade, which drains into the Vecht, are two sluice possibilities with flap gates, erected in brick and natural stone and dating from the time of the steam pumping station.

Valuation

The pumping station with sluice are of general importance because of the architectural historical value as a well-preserved example of a pumping station in interwar style from the thirties of the twentieth century, with associated working installation. Also because of the cultural historical value as an expression of the history of the drainage of the Bethune polder and the drinking water supply of Amsterdam in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Also because of the ensemble value due to the rural location on the Machinekade, at the edge of the Bethune polder and the relationship with the waterway located at the Machinekade, draining into the Vecht with sluice possibilities.