Schwärzer

English translation

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Description

Introduction

BUTCHER'S SHOP "Schwärzer" with shop front and interior from 1933. Butcher P.L.M. Schwärzer had his existing shop entirely renovated in that year in Late Amsterdam School style according to a design by architect Laurens Groen (Amsterdam 1879 - Heiloo 1952). Striking about the front is the rich use of materials (black granite, teak wood, leaded glass) and the very modern neon lighting above the display window for that time. The sober interior of the shop is still largely in its original condition. The upper dwelling was substantially renovated in the 1960s and is not part of the protection. The building is situated on the corner of the Stationsweg and the Scharlo.

Description

Asymmetrical shop front with in the centre a large display window above which a series of eight fanlights provided with leaded glass (identical compositions of yellow, clear and red rectangles with purple and lilac accents). To the right of this is located the somewhat recessed glazed shop door, in front of which decorative wrought ironwork is fitted at the bottom for protection. The lower half of the angled front is clad with approximately 3 cm thick plates of black Labrador granite; the approximately 10 cm projecting upper front half has a covering of broad sections of lacquered teak wood. Against this is mounted in the centre above in ornamental iron letters with thin white neon tubes the name "Schwärzer". At the transition between the granite and the wood sits on the left next to the display window a small horizontal window in which similar leaded glass as in the fanlights. The woodwork on either side of this window is rounded. A projecting shelf separates the window from the three vertical sections above. In the centre below the window hangs a wooden ornament surrounded on both sides by granite in the form of a resting (standing) block with on the front face an s-shaped curl in relief. The teak wood clad heavy rounded post between the shop door and the display window is crowned by the carved house number, a resting "2". The interior is still largely original and contains amongst others a floor of red and white tiles in a chessboard pattern, white-tiled walls with in the northwest wall two polychrome tile panels (the left one shows three cows in a meadow, the right one a farmer walking with a pig over a dike path), a display and counter partly executed in grey-veined white marble, an iron tree, and a bench intended for waiting customers consisting of a slatted seat resting on a wrought iron construction of curved bars fixed to the wall.

Valuation

Butcher's shop "Schwärzer" from 1933 is of general importance on account of cultural and architectural-historical value as a largely both externally and internally well-preserved example of a butcher's shop from the Interwar period, with a shop front executed in rich materials in the style of the Late Amsterdam School.