Hospitium

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Located at Arnoldus Janssenstraat 27-29, a former double HOSPITIUM with, on the rear courtyard, a former double laundry facility connected to the main volume via a linking corridor. On the front and side courtyards, serving as a boundary to the street and the two plots, knee-high brick saddle-back walls between similar pilasters which transform into a man-high brick GARDEN WALL on Zustersstraat, forming a stylistic unity with the main volume and laundry house. The hospitium was built by architect pater Moechel on behalf of Missiehuis Sint Michaël in 1912, taking as his example the adjacent property already realized in 1901 for the main lines of his design. It was constructed in an artisanal-traditional building manner with the use of various contemporary materials and some German stylistic elements. The former double guest accommodation is now in use as a double dwelling. The laundry house functioned as a shed and adjoining scullery. In the front roof gable four non-original roof dormers. At number 29 the cellar lights are partly blocked. A conservatory extension dating from 1995 adjoins the laundry section of number 27.

Description

Serving as a boundary to the side courtyard along Zustersstraat, a GARDEN WALL in the same formal language as the main volume. The wall, constructed in dark red brick, is articulated by pilasters accentuated with light red facing brick, furnished with cement stone cappings, with wall sections between them capped with flattened saddle-backs. The entirely cellaried, double HOSPITIUM covers a nearly rectangular footprint and comprises two storeys plus an attic storey under a saddle roof covered with dark-smoked Dutch tiles, slightly recessed. On the rear gable two (lower) two-storey toilet outbuildings under flat square plan. On front and rear roof gables various tall chimney stacks with dentil lines in light red facing brick and capping with overhang. Projecting gutters.

The gables of the building, constructed in dark red brick in cross bond, are horizontally articulated and enlivened by a continuous ceramic drip moulding, dark brown glazed cordon and decorative lines and exuberant decorative brickwork beneath the roof edge with dentil mouldings and semicircular friezes (whose verticals vary in length), executed in contrasting light red facing brick. Dentil lines in the same stone accentuate the vertical line. This ornamental work is consistently carried through all facades.

Arched window and door openings, framed with profiled and dentilled light red facing brick and otherwise accentuated with corbel arches drawn at the head in dark brown glazed stone and identically glazed sill stones. Mostly T-shaped casement windows with profiled mullion and simple fanlights (at no. 27 now fitted with leaded glass). Arched cellar lights.

The symmetrically arranged front facade comprises six bays, of which the middle two slightly project and terminate in a gable, formed as a stepped gable with saddle-back capping and flanking pinnacles with crenellated crowning. Otherwise a rising semicircular frieze and detailing as aforesaid. In the centre of the middle risalite an empty niche on decoratively corbelled brick console. Identical, likewise symmetrically arranged end gables, terminating in spout gables with shoulder pieces. In each side gable six blind windows and in the middle bay a casement window as aforesaid. Below this the main entrance with glazed panel door fitted with decorative wrought-iron grille on a sandstone stone step with decorative wrought-iron balustrade. The symmetrical rear facade likewise comprising six bays is detailed as aforesaid. Segmentally arched carved rear doors with panels on a sandstone step. Partly slot windows at the location of the stairwell and in the two toilet outbuildings, which are otherwise detailed as the main volume.

In the interiors the original mirror-symmetrical floor plan layout has been preserved despite some later breaches. From the entrances located in the side gables a central corridor leads to a stair perpendicular to this. Various living rooms are situated on both the outside and inside of this right-angled structure. First floor with corresponding layout. Cellars running through beneath the entire building in multiple sections.

Among the noteworthy interior elements are: the cellars with polychrome tile floors, segmental arches and wooden clamped doors; the stairwells and corridors with stucco ceilings, polychrome tile floors and original staircase with casing and decoratively carved (initial) balusters; further the former kitchens with polychrome tile floors, various marble windowsills and in various rooms the characteristic carved, broad panel doors with profiled moulding work typical of religious architecture.

On the rear courtyard the former LAUNDRY HOUSE, connected to the main volume via a linking corridor. In this linking corridor a casement window on both sides with detailing as aforesaid (at no. 29 simplified). The laundry house covers a rectangular footprint, parallel to the main volume, and comprises one storey plus an attic storey under a similarly dark-smoked Dutch tile-covered saddle roof with overhang, topped with a chimney stack recalling the former function in exactly corresponding formal language as on the main volume. Detailing and ornamental work as on the main volume. Symmetrical end gables with two windows and a broad carved panel door on a sandstone step. Blind rear gable. Preserved polychrome cement tile floor in the interior.

Valuation

The object, consisting of a double HOSPITIUM with adjoining LAUNDRY HOUSE and GARDEN WALL along Zustersstraat, is of general importance. The object has cultural-historical values. It is of importance as a particular expression of a cultural and spiritual development, namely the founding of various new monastic communities in Tegelen at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, in this case the missionary fathers of the Congregation of the Divine Word, as a consequence of religious persecution in Germany under Bismarck. Furthermore, on account of its importance for the typological development of monastic guest accommodation. The object has architectural-historical values on account of the importance of the particular ornamental work and careful detailing, whereby German stylistic elements are combined with contemporary building materials from the regional coarse ceramic industry. The strict symmetry of the floor plan is accentuated in the symmetrical principal elevation. The object has ensemble values on account of the historic-spatial relationship with the surrounding religious buildings of Steyl, on account of the visually defining location at the corner of Arnoldus Janssenstraat with Zustersstraat, and on account of the position at the end of the sight line from Zustersstraat. The object has rarity value and is of importance on account of the relatively well-preserved exteriors combined with various preserved elements in the interiors. It reinforces the visual and structural integrity of the adjoining part of Steyl to be protected as a village townscape.