Hospitium

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Located at Arnoldus Janssenstraat 31-33, a former double HOSPITIUM with, on the rear courtyard, a detached, former double WASHING FACILITY. On the front courtyard, separating it from the street and the two plots, knee-high brick saddle-back walls between corresponding pillars. On the rear courtyard, separating the two plots, a man-high saddle-back wall between the main volume and the washing house. The hospitium was built in 1901 on commission of the Missionary House Saint Michael and constructed in a traditional craft manner with the application of various contemporary materials and some German style elements. The former double guest accommodation is now in use as a double dwelling house, the washing house as a shed. Number 33 is now missing some of the characteristic chimneys. Outside the protection fall the two garages situated on the side plots from 1968 and 1999.

Description

The partially basement hospitium, double in plan, covers a nearly rectangular footprint and comprises two storeys plus a roof storey beneath a slightly recessed gabled roof covered with blue-smoked barrel tiles. On the rear facade two (lower) two-storey toilet buildings with flat roofs on square plans. On front and rear roof pitches various high brick chimneys with dentilled corner lists in light red facing brick and covering with overhang. Exposed gutters. The facades of the building, constructed with dark red brick in Flemish bond, are divided horizontally and enlivened by a continuous cemoned plinth, a moulded-stone cornice list, various stretcher courses, decorative brickwork and exuberant ornamental brickwork beneath the roof edge with block-edge lists and semicircular friezes (of which the verticals vary in length), all executed in contrasting light red facing brick. Dentilled corner lists in the same stone accentuate the vertical line. This ornamentation is consistently carried through all the facades.

In the facades various types of windows, as well as the main entrances beneath segment arches with brick rope-moulding drawn around the head and flanked on either side with dentilled lists in red facing brick. Mostly straight-topped frames with decorative arched fields containing ornamental brickwork of polychrome, partly glazed decorative stones. Including T-shaped cross windows, single or coupled, with moulded soffit and casements in the fanlights, large composite windows with corresponding fanlights, simple casement windows and rectangular, two-part basement lights.

The asymmetrically arranged front facade comprises six bays, of which the second projects slightly and, like the fifth, terminates in a gable. In the broader second bay, formed as a stepped gable covered with saddle-backs and flanking pinnacles with crenellated finials, in the fifth bay as a simple spout gable with cornice-lined covering. Both gables provided with a climbing semicircular frieze and detailing as aforementioned. Central in the front facade a niche containing a saintly image from 1906 on a projecting brick console.

Identical, likewise symmetrically arranged end facades, terminating in spout gables with broad shoulder pieces. In each side facade four blind windows and otherwise three windows as aforementioned (at no. 33 renewed). Centrally located main entrance with glazed wooden panel door on a sandstone flight of steps with wrought iron balustrade. The symmetrical, likewise six-bay rear facade is largely detailed as aforementioned. Sculpted segment-arched rear doors with panels on a sandstone step. Narrow windows at the location of the staircase and in the two toilet buildings, which are otherwise detailed as the main volume.

In the interiors the originally mirror-symmetrical floor plan layout has remained recognisable despite some later breakthroughs. From the entrances located in the side facades a central corridor leads to the stairs situated above it. Numerous living quarters are situated both on the outside and inside of this L-shaped structure. First floor with corresponding layout. Roof storey with attic and several additional rooms. Multi-part basement on the front side.

Of the interiors noteworthy are among others: the multi-part basements with barrel-vaults, segment arches, potato stores, wooden trap doors and red-black tiles; the staircase with a coffered arch and original staircase with decoratively carved (starting) balusters; the polychrome cement tile floors in the corridors and various wide panel doors with moulded posts characteristic for religious architecture (especially still at no. 33).

On the rear courtyard the former WASHING HOUSE. It covers a rectangular footprint, parallel to the main volume, and comprises one storey plus a roof storey beneath a likewise barrel-tile-covered gabled roof with overhang, on which a chimney recalling the former function in exactly corresponding formal language as on the main volume. Detailing and ornamentation nearly as in the main volume. Symmetrical end facades with three windows, blind rear facade and two entrance doors in the front facade, separated from each other by a man-high saddle-back wall between the washing house and main volume serving as a boundary wall. Wide sculpted panel doors provide access to the two-room ground floor, where part of a red-black tile floor has been preserved.

Valuation

The object, consisting of a double HOSPITIUM with adjoining double WASHING HOUSE, is of general interest. The object has cultural historical values. It is of importance as a particular expression of a cultural and spiritual development, namely the establishment 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 persecutions in Germany under Bismarck. Furthermore due to its importance for the typological development of monastic guest residences. The object has architectural historical values due to the importance of its particular ornamentation and careful detailing, whereby German style elements are combined with contemporary building materials from the regional coarse ceramics industry. The strict symmetry of the floor plan is softened in the street facade by variation in facade treatment and window arrangements. The object has ensemble values due to the historical-spatial relationship with the surrounding religious buildings of Steyl and due to its (together with the neighbouring building) image-defining location at the corner of Arnoldus Janssenstraat with Zustersstraat. The object has rarity value and is of importance due to the fairly well-preserved exteriors in combination with various preserved elements in the interiors. It strengthens the visual and structural integrity of the adjoining part of Steyl to be protected as a village townscape.