voormalig stadhuis Stavoren

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Former TOWN HALL of Stavoren with DWELLING, attached former ARCHIVE ROOM, IRON RAILING and BOLLARD. The building is situated on the IJsselmeer side of the Voorstraat opposite the stone bridge over the Delf which separates the west and east sides of the Voorstraat with its characteristic overhanging eaves. On the left the building is adjoined by residential building, on the right by the small Baptist church, at the rear by the sea dike. The new town hall etc. was built in 1889 in eclectic style by the contractors Kampman and Smit in place of the old town hall. Various components (mouldings and paintings etc.) from the old building were reinstated in the new building. The left section of the building was used as the residence of the burgomast; the right section served as the town hall (with amongst other things council chamber, burgomast's room, secretariat and attached blast-proof archive room). Around 1931 the paintings in the council chamber and burgomast's room were restored by J.C. Traas, restorer at the Museum H.W. Mesdag in The Hague; the redesign of both rooms was drawn by A.L. Oger, architect of the National Office for Monument Conservation. In the execution of the work various companies from Stavoren were involved amongst others. In 2003 the former town hall was adapted to the function of living and working. The main layout, burgomast's room and council chamber - which still serves as a marriage room - archive room and other valuable elements were retained. A ceiling painting was applied in the large hall on the ground floor on the occasion of these works.

Description

EXTERIOR. Cubic, partly cellared building, erected in reddish-brown wall bricks on a chalk-brick frame of brick pieces and covered by a truncated hipped roof tiled with black-glazed Frisian curved tiles; hard stone plinth on front elevation; corner pilasters with recessed bands of yellow brick; moulded oversailing cornice all around, on the front elevation resting on nine terracotta consoles; wrought iron wall anchors; ashlar, lozenge-stone shapes, dormer sills, step treads etc. of Escausijn hard stone; decorative brickwork in yellow brick. The front elevation symmetrically arranged by an evenly-laid central risalit ending in a stone roof dormer; on the ground floor a central (double) entrance section with double panel doors in moulded surround, two-light fanlight and broad two-stepped hard stone stoop; on either side two T-windows; on the upper storey French doors with shallow balcony on terracotta consoles; balcony railing of decorative wrought ironwork, on which is displayed the municipal coat of arms of Stavoren under crown; the roof dormer with T-window, moulded cornice and corner pilasters with terracotta capitals. The rear elevation likewise symmetrically arranged by central double entrance section with on either side a window; on the upper storey a balcony with on either side likewise a window (originally six-light windows, now T-windows). In the right side elevation a six-light window; in the left side elevation a two-light cellar window and two H-windows. Most window and door openings are arched and provided with fanlight with radiating wybert motif; some under one-and-a-half-brick rooster-comb with ashlar.

INTERIOR. The original floor plan has been largely preserved. On the ground floor the large hall has been restored; there panel doors and interior shutters; ceiling painting from 2003. In the council chamber on the upper storey oak panelling and six tapestry paintings with Biblical scenes created in 1776 by the painter E.V. Hoek, from the old town hall and, according to tradition, a gift from William V. Depicted are: Solomon's First Right, Esther and Mordechai before Ahasuerus, Judah and Thamar, Suzanna and the Elders, Jacob and Esau, the Blessing of Jacob. Furniture and panelling date from around 1931, when the council chamber was restored. In the burgomast's room preserved (and from the old town hall) are the oak panelling, a ceiling grisaille with in the centre a trophy flanked by Mars and the Stavoren Maiden. Furthermore, within oak wood surround, a painted portrait of William V and, as an overdoor, a small painting in oak wood carved work depicting 'The Town Hall' (the old town hall) by the hand of J. Akkerman, house and art painter in Stavoren and presented on the occasion of the restoration of around 1931. Besides these, throughout the building, are amongst others still present panel doors, interior shutters and round-arched passages. On the roof finally the well-preserved pine wood roof truss structure with single roof collar-tie.

IRON RAILING. In front of the property, on the Voorstraat side, stands a well-maintained second half 19th-century cast-iron railing.

BOLLARD. To the right of the entrance stands, within the railing, a presumed late medieval bollard of Oland limestone. This is probably from Tallinn (Estonia). In the upper half of the stone the depiction of a griffin which is set within an worked circle with primitive human heads and curls.

Valuation

Former town hall of Stavoren of general importance: - because of the age of the various components; - because of the original function in relation to the size, which for the modest building of the Zuiderzee town of Stavoren is at the very least striking; - because of the architectural design characteristic of the time of its creation; - because of the material use characteristic of the time of its creation; - because of the floor plan which is still recognisable on main lines; - because of the presence of a number of valuable interior components; - because of the presence of a special bollard; - as a reminder of the formerly independent municipality of Stavoren; - because of the special location in Stavoren between the Delf and the present IJsselmeer.