Monuments in Noord-Holland

R. Stenvert en C. Kolman (2006)

Gepubliceerd op 30-03-2018

The former council house in Wormer

betekenis & definitie

(Dorpsstraat 350) was built for a merchant around 1660 as a low-floor classicist mansion with a middle rialis decorated with festoons. Above the entrance with pilaster picture frame is a man's stone head dating from 1763. At that time the house was owned by the ship-owners family Mol. After serving as an official residence, it became the Town Hall in 1818 after the demolition of the old court (circa 1600).

As a town hall it served until 1981 and when it was restored in 1997 it became a private home again. The interior contains a 17th-century carved interior portal with an 18th-century statue of a chained eagle with a mole and a richly carved cartouche frame around an oval window. Furthermore, there are carved beam layer consoles and a large tile chimney (smolder) flanked by two 18th-century tile pictures. Inspired by anthroposophical style is the design of the modern town hall of the municipality of Wormerland (Koetserstraat 3, 1997, T. Alberts and M. van Huut).