Kasteel, buitenplaats, Bingerdenseweg 21

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Description

Main building, Huis Bingerden. Component 22,

Description The name Bingerden is first mentioned in 970 as 'curtis Bingart'. What that curtis or farmstead comprised is unclear. Only in 1674 (!) can it be established from archival documents that in that year there was mention of a 'house and the place' or 'the house Bingerden with the inner courtyard'. Although Bingerden is described on an 18th-century map as 'Haave Saedt en Hoch Adelijke Huijs', it was never officially recognised as a havezathe. Nor were there seigneurial rights attached to Bingerden. It is not to be assumed that a medieval castle ever stood at the location of the present house; rather we should think of an undefended house. The designation "Hof te Bingerden" already points to that. That house may have been destroyed in the Eighty Years' War, for it is known that modest repairs took place in 1612 and that owners Johan Arnold van Goltstein and Maria von Lehwalt displayed great building activity in the middle of the 17th century. The latter is evident from an archival document: '... so wie gemeltes heusz belanget, ist zwahr vor diesem jahr schlecht undt gering gewesen, aber von weilandt hernn Gerenal Goltstein ziemlich verbessert undt gröszer gemacht..'. The coat of arms stone Van Goltstein and Van Lehwalt was probably built into the front facade before the fire. We are not informed of the nature of the repairs. An image of the house appeared on a lost portrait with the six children Van Pabst (circa 1675). Bingerden is a substantial house with a basement, piano nobile and storey under a hipped roof, ten bays wide. On the south side a stable with high entrance gate was built on. The whole was surrounded by a formal park. In 1786 the house was substantially remodelled. The stable complex built on to the south side was relocated and connected to the house by a high garden wall. Also on the north side came a garden wall connecting the house to the orangery. The front facade was renewed. To commemorate this remodelling, a facade stone was built into each garden wall. In 1827 the interior of the house was remodelled: the great hall was raised higher and the house was doubled at the rear. The house acquired a double roof with a valley gutter. At a subsequent remodelling in 1870 the double roof was changed into a mansard roof. Retreating German troops set that house on fire in April 1945. The ruin stood that way for several years. The owners had taken up residence in the orangery. In 1957 E.A. Canneman, architect at the National Heritage Service, was commissioned to rebuild the house on the old foundations. It was completed on 28 May 1958. The new house was similar in concept, but lower and narrower than the old one had been. The old cellars in the north-east corner were retained as the only component and incorporated into the new house.

The house on a rectangular ground plan has a low storey and is covered with a substantial hipped roof, laid with grey traditional Dutch tiles. In the middle of the roof an open lantern for a bell with a clock face on the front at the base. All around a moulded roof gutter above a low frieze. The front facade has slightly projecting central and corner sections. The central section is crowned by a tympanum, in which the coat of arms Van Weede - Van Heeckeren is incorporated. The front door section has an 18th-century style door and matching fanlight with fretwork. On either side of the door a narrow window with sash window and on the storey above a broad window flanked by two narrow windows, all with sash windows. The recessed facade panels have two windows on the ground floor and two low windows on the storey above. The corner sections have one window on the ground floor and a low window on the storey above. All windows have sash windows with 18th-century glazing bars. In the south facade a commemorative stone from after the Second World War commemorating the destruction and rebuilding (in Latin). On the north side a low section has been built on, which visually disappears behind the curved garden wall and is therefore not visible from the forecourt. This houses the kitchen and scullery. The rear facade has a three-sided projecting central section and is finished above eaves height with a wooden balustrade. In this section a balcony resting on consoles with balustrade and balcony doors on the storey above and garden doors on the ground floor. On either side of the central section, both on the ground floor and storey above, windows as in the front facade. The layout of the house is as follows: centrally behind the front door lies the hall which opens onto the great, three-sided projecting room. The room is flanked by the gentlemen's room and the dining room. On the south side of the hall the slender curved staircase upwards. Behind it a small salon. On the north side of the hall a passage to the 'service area', with kitchens, access to the cellars and a day room for the staff. On the storey above bedrooms and bathrooms. At exterior and interior 18th-century components are used such as panelling, fireplaces and fittings.

Valuation HUIS BINGERDEN, belonging to the historic country estate Bingerden, of general cultural-historical importance: - because of its history - as the centre of the country estate - as an example of reconstruction in 18th-century forms, referencing the old house in form, not in scale, using original 18th-century components.