Kasteel, Kasteellaan 12

English translation

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Description

Description component 1

The MAIN BUILDING erected on a U-shaped ground plan in classical style dates from 1740 and is partly built on the fifteenth-century vaulted foundations (cellars) of the preceding castle. The house consists of a central section with two right-angled wings enclosing a courtyard and is constructed from a basement and two storeys beneath a mansard roof covered with slate with roof lights; this roof was installed in 1883 after a fire destroyed the original hipped roof. The facades are finished with a cornice and feature a regular articulation of lightly arched six-pane windows with two-pane fanlights set in ashlar surrounds and in the basement partly framed, barred windows; in the outer facade several doors in the basement. The central section of the five-bay wide front facade has a risalit of three bays crowned by a pediment; the tympanum is decorated with coats of arms and carved work. Centrally the double entrance door at a porch with ornamental wrought-iron balustrade; the door is set in an ashlar surround, which also encompasses the upper-storey window; ornamental wrought-iron balcony on the storey. On either side of the door stands an ashlar coat-of-arms-bearing lion on a plinth. The ornamentation of the central risalit is executed in Louis XVI style. The regularly arranged rear facade has in the middle a double wooden door in an ashlar surround of pilasters, main cornice and a broken pediment with a mortared niche in the middle in which stands a coat-of-arms-bearing lion, which was found in the moat. The small gate served as a rear exit to the church. Restoration in 1881 and 1947. In the extension of the west wing a chapel was built in the nineteen thirties, forming part of the structure of the complex. In the early nineteen sixties a refectory was built on the east wing in Den Bosch School style, which forms the connection with the Jesuit wing.

In the INTERIOR matters of importance include the spatial arrangement; below an eighteenth-century fireplace, above an eighteenth-century fire-back and tiles. The fifteenth-century cellars in the north and east wings are provided with variously shaped ribbed vaults which are plastered; in the west wing eighteenth-century cellars likewise with ribbed vaults. In the west wing, on the bel étage, a sundial with equation-of-time loop, with copper spikes set in the floor between 1901 and 1909. In the east wing a cast-iron spiral staircase from 1883, from the cellar to the storey.

Valuation

MAIN BUILDING (Kasteel Gemert), forming part of the historic country estate Kasteel Gemert, of general importance:

- on account of its age;

- on account of its design in classical style with Louis XVI ornament;

- on account of its historical layering;

- on account of the spatial arrangement in the interior and a number of interior elements; - on account of its distinctive location within the historic garden and park layout;

- on account of the functional-spatial relationship with the other components of the country estate.